The Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586 lineage as a family tree: six charters, five consolidations, and two branches that met in 2018.
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The Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586 lineage brings together six charters through five consolidations. Three of the original lodges are represented in its name. Another, Island City Lodge, supplied the number.
That number went out of use in this branch for six years after 1987, when the combined Island City and Mizpah lodge kept Mizpah’s 738.
The 1009 that Service Lodge carried from Flushing lasted through two consolidations before giving way to 586 in 2018.
This page presents the lineage as a family tree, so a reader can see which lodges joined which, and when. The individual lodge pages follow each branch in greater detail.
How to Read the Tree
The top row holds the six lodges as they were chartered by the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, with their charter dates.
Lines run down to the lodge that each consolidation produced. Each later box gives the name and number the combined lodge carried, together with the year of the consolidation.
There are two branches.
One connects Manhattan’s City Lodge with Service in Flushing and Geba in Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.
The other connects Island City, Advance, and Mizpah in western Queens and Newtown.
They meet at the bottom on January 31, 2018.
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In the intended layout, the left branch carries the Manhattan, Flushing, and Elmhurst line. The right branch carries Island City, Advance, and Mizpah.
The Timeline puts the events in chronological order. The Merger History follows the consolidations as a connected narrative.
The Manhattan, Flushing, and Elmhurst Branch
The oldest charter in the family belongs to City Lodge No. 408, chartered in Manhattan on September 1, 1856.
It began in a small room in Florence Hall, met for years on Grand Street, and moved north and west through Manhattan in the 1870s.
Service Lodge No. 1009 was much younger.
It was chartered in Flushing on May 3, 1923, and met in the temple on Northern Boulevard that Cornucopia Lodge built.
The two joined in 1973 as Service City Lodge No. 1009.
The Flushing lodge’s number survived, and the Manhattan lodge’s did not. The name carried both.
Geba Lodge No. 954 joined in 1982.
Chartered on May 7, 1919, Geba began in the neighborhoods of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst. It met in the Mizpah temple from early in its life.
The combined lodge became Service City Geba Lodge No. 1009, and the Flushing number came with it.
That was the name and number this branch carried into the 2018 consolidation.
The Western Queens Branch
Island City Lodge received its dispensation on June 18, 1865, and its charter on June 18, 1866.
It was the earliest of the three lodges on this branch, and it carried the number 586.
Advance Lodge No. 635 followed in Astoria, chartered on July 2, 1867.
Mizpah Lodge No. 738 came in Newtown on June 20, 1873. Several of its charter members were Island City men.
Island City and Mizpah joined in 1987 as Island City Mizpah Lodge No. 738, keeping Mizpah’s number.
In 1993 that lodge consolidated with Advance.
The result, Advance Island City Mizpah Lodge No. 586, restored Island City’s number and met in the Advance Masonic Temple in Astoria.
The buildings followed different paths.
Island City’s temple passed to federal court use and later returned to commercial rental use. Mizpah’s was sold to a church. Advance’s remained the combined lodge’s meeting place.
The geography article follows those movements. The map places the selected buildings alongside one another.
The two branches met on January 31, 2018.
Service City Geba Lodge No. 1009 joined Advance Island City Mizpah Lodge No. 586 to form Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586.
The number 1009, used since Service’s charter in 1923, left the combined lineage’s title. No. 586 carried on.
What Survived in the Name and Number
The tree makes several parts of the lineage easier to follow.
Advance, Service, and Mizpah remain in the current title.
City, Island City, and Geba remained in the predecessor titles until 2018, when all three dropped out.
The numbers followed a different course.
City’s 408 and Geba’s 954 disappeared from the combined titles in 1973 and 1982. Mizpah’s 738 carried the 1987 consolidation, then gave way in 1993, when Advance’s 635 also left the title.
Service’s 1009 continued through the 1973 and 1982 consolidations and remained in use until 2018.
Island City’s 586 was set aside in 1987, restored in 1993, and retained in 2018.
The six charter years run from 1856 to 1923, a span of sixty-seven years. The five consolidation years run from 1973 to 2018, a span of forty-five years.
The geography also divides into two branches. One connects Manhattan, Flushing, and Elmhurst. The other connects the western Queens waterfront, Astoria, and Newtown.
Both arrive at the Astoria temple.
The Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586 family tree records changes in names and numbers, but its lines do not end where an old title disappears. They continue into the next box.
Sources and Notes
This page draws on the lodge and consolidation histories in the series. Their Sources and Notes sections identify the underlying records used for each branch.
Grand Lodge Records
Grand Lodge of the State of New York records for charter dates, consolidation years, and lodge numbering.
Lodge Histories
The lodge histories used in the individual City, Service, Geba, Mizpah, Island City, and Advance articles.
Henry Martin’s 1915 historical address for Advance Lodge No. 635.
[Before publication: identify the specific Grand Lodge proceedings volumes and page references, complete the lodge-history citations, and check the chart against the final text.]
Note 1: Dates, Names, Numbers, and the Chart
Charter dates follow Grand Lodge records: City Lodge No. 408, September 1, 1856; Island City Lodge No. 586, June 18, 1866; Advance Lodge No. 635, July 2, 1867; Mizpah Lodge No. 738, June 20, 1873; Geba Lodge No. 954, May 7, 1919; and Service Lodge No. 1009, May 3, 1923.
Island City’s dispensation of June 18, 1865, and charter of June 18, 1866, mark different events. Advance’s dispensation was January 22, 1867.
The chart may use shortened names for space. The full combined names are Service City Lodge No. 1009; Service City Geba Lodge No. 1009; Island City Mizpah Lodge No. 738; Advance Island City Mizpah Lodge No. 586; and Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586.
The consolidations of 1973, 1982, 1987, and 1993 are given by year because their months are not reliably established in the working Grand Lodge record. The final consolidation is dated January 31, 2018.
The spans of sixty-seven and forty-five years compare the first and last calendar years, rather than exact elapsed intervals between full dates.
References to numbers leaving use describe their place in this lineage and its combined titles. They do not establish whether a number was later reassigned elsewhere.
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The building-use descriptions follow the companion articles. Present-use claims should be confirmed before publication.
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Related Reading
Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586: A Living Inheritance of Six New York Lodges
The Merger History of Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586
A Map of the Lodges, Temples, and Meeting Places in the Advance Service Mizpah Lineage
From Manhattan to Astoria: The Geography of a Lodge Lineage
Timeline of the Lodges That Formed Advance Service Mizpah Lodge No. 586
How This Series Is Researched: Sources for Queens Lodge History
