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 The Divver Masonic Lodge #349 A.F.M. in Anderson, South Carolina is named after Most Worshipful Brother Richard Furman Divver, PGM. Richard Furman Divver was a soldier, physician, and Freemason, devoted to God, his family, his church, his country, and Freemasonry. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina on October 21, 1840. He served as a Confederate soldier who fought in several skirmishes and the battle of Bull Run. He attended the College of Charleston, and later the Jefferson School of Medicine and Surgery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married in 1869 and had two sons and two daughters, and in 1870, he started the practice of medicine and surgery in Anderson, South Carolina. He was initiated, passed, and raised in Recover Lodge #31, in Greenville, South Carolina during the summer of 1863. He demitted from that lodge to become a member of the Amity Lodge #87. Later, he united with Hiram Lodge #68 in Anderson, South Carolina, and was Past master from 1888 through 1890. He as instrumental in the formation of Furman Lodge #170 in Anderson, South Carolina which would later become Divver Lodge #349. He began attending Grand Lodge in 1866, and in 1877, he was appointed one of the Grand Stewards. In 1878, he was appointed Senior Grand Deacon, and in 1883, he was elected Junior Grand Warden. He advanced until he was elected Grand Master in 1888 and again in 1890. He died of an illness on September 14, 1930, and was laid to rest in Silver Brook Cemetery. Furman Lodge #170 would later became Divver Lodge #349, named in memory of Most Worshipful Brother Richard Furman Divver, PGM. Source: "Transactions of the South Carolina Masonic Research Society", 1999 edition. |
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