[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] NORTH SALEM. W1W (Fathers John and Keeney ) died at the Purdy's parson-age while serving the parish. Father Healy, of Brewster, is now the officiating clergyman. Many of the prominent members are residents of the village of Croton Falls, where they settled before and at the time the church was built. Masonic Lodge. — In June, 1855, a few of the resi-dents of Croton Falls and vicinity, who had become impressed with the idea that some local organization would be of benefit to the place, met together and talked over the organization of a Masonic lodge. Pre-vious to this there had been such an organization in existence in this vicinity, and the earlier Masons used to attend their regular communications at the "red house," in Salem. But these older members of the or-der were now dead and no organized lodge was in the vicinity. Accordingly, in June, 1855, it was decided to form a lodge, which was done. The body was called Croton Lodge, No. 368. The charter members were Geo. Gregory, Harrison Pardee, Thos. Fields, Edward Adams, William Bailey, Hiram Dean and Christopher Brown. The last-named had been a member of the older organization, previous to the anti-Mason excite-ment. These members visited New York and received their degrees from Puritan Lodge, 339. The first officers elected were George Gregory, W. M.; Harri-son Pardee, J. W.; Edward Adams, S. W.; Thomas Fields, Secretary and Treasurer.