Welcome to Petaluma-Hamilton #180 Masonic Lodge!
Celebrating 154 years of Petaluma Freemasonry.

Past Masters of Petaluma-Hamilton #180

It is both a privilege and an accomplishment to sit in the East, wearing the apron and ornaments of a Lodge's Worshipful Master. After years of study and dedication to the Lodge and to the Craft in general, including terms serving as both Junior and Senior Wardens, the potential Master must be voted on by the entire assembled brethren, and prove his proficiency to the Grand Lodge, showing that he is prepared and ready to lead a Lodge of California Freemasons.

In the many years of this Lodge's history, many men have sat in the Oriental Chair, guiding the Lodge, and in many cases Petaluma itself, into continued prosperity and generosity, forging a legacy that all Masons of Petaluma-Hamilton #180 are proud to serve and maintain. We hold these men and their accomplishments with reverence.


1855, 1856 Thomas Barnes
1857 Bleistein Newman
1858, 1866 - 1868 Uriah Edwards
1859 Foredyce Benjamin
1860 William Burnett
1861, 1874 - 1876 James Singley
1862 Joshua Bond
1863, 1864 Fred Alberding
1865 Delos Carder
1866 John Simons
1868 - 1870, 1873 Benjamin Tuttle
1869, 1871 Oscar Walker
1870 William Brown
1871, 1872 Noah Scudder
1872, 1873 David Jay
1874, 1875 Hiram Taft
1876, 1879 William Cox
1877, 1878 Marcus Goshen
1880 John McClymonds
1880 Joseph Wiswell
1881 Thomas Jacobs
1881, 1897 Dolphen Fairbanks
1882 George Allen
1882 John Van Doren
1883 Albion Whitney
1883 Edward Lippit
1884 Henry Brainerd
1884 P. A. P. Atkins
1885 George Zartman
1885, 1886 William Magee
1886, 1887 Frank Fairbanks
1887 James Dinwiddie
1888 John Camm
1888 Lyman Byce
1889 - 1892 William Veale
1890 Frank Cromwell
1891, 1892, 1895 Charles Perkins
1893 Lyman Green
1894 William Robinson
1895 Frank Lippitt
1896 William Zartman
1897 Edward Evans
1898 Oscar Troop
1898 Robert Wallace
1899, 1900, 1912 W. T. Spridgen
1901 W. S. De Turk
1902 A. L. Tibbitts
1903, 1904 George Smith
1905 Peter Blim
1906 A. W. Horweg
1907 H. Weber
1908 Fred Nauert
1909 George Gill
1910 James McFadden
1911 John Olmsted
1913 E.A. Potter
1914 Thomas McGuire
1915 Carl Plow
1916 Malcom Byce
1917 Sandy McFadden
1918 C. F. Fury
1919 W. A. Meyer
1920 N. B. Rundall
1921 O. M. Riewerts
1922 Arthur Owen
1923 Murray Herriman
1924 Eurgine Bell
1925 Henry Riblet
1926 John Struven
1927 E. J. C. Thurston
1928 Hiram Hopkins
1929 John Keller
1930 Glen Conger
1931 Daniel Jamieson
1932 William McEwan
1933 Duncan Olmsted
1934 Rennie Nelson
1935 Ernest Schwobeda
1936 Donald Keller
1937 John Werner
1938 Stephen Olmsted
1939 Henry Stone
1940 Lewis Cromwell
1941 Edwin Carmody
1942 James Hoyrup
1943 Christian Lind
1944 Clyde Nelson
1945 Lester Short
1946 Park Van Bebber
1947 Eugene Cuslidge
1948 Earl Jameson
1949 Otto Rotthaus
1950 Norman Van Bebber
1951 George Lee
1952 Charles Gorman
1953 Jay Milner
1954 Harold Jacobsen
1955 Brand Johnson
1956 Charles Thomas
1957 John Keller Jr
1958 Gordon Leask
1959 Waldemar King
1960 Phil Talamantes
1961 Walter Casarotti
1962 Albert Behrens Jr
1963 Emil Mogel
1964 Ellsworth Bean
1965 Wolfgang Eberwein
1966 Herbert Lauden
1967 Paul Drake
1968 Richard Cochran
1969 Wayne Johnson
1970 Frank Raney
1971 Edward Picray
1972 Robert Spitzer
1973 Dave Camillo
1974 John Dias
1975 Russell Smart
1976 Christian Mastrupp
1977 Edward Chesnik
1978 Wallace Kelley
1979 John Landsdon
1980 James Bowland
1981 Emil Mogel Jr
1982 Willace Phipps
1983 Arthur Gunner
1984, 1987 Charles MacNichols
1985 Stanley Jones
1986 Willhelm Slubik
1988, 2000, 2006 Otto Horst
1989 Robert Armbruster
1990 Martin McKeay
1991 Kurt Knobelauch
1992, 1996, 2004 Fred Talmadge
1993 Emil Mogel Sr
1994 David Lopez
1995, 1999 George Whitten
1997 Kevin Campbell
1998 Randy Stewart
2001, 2005 Mark Rousey-Seidel
2002 Joseph Zusin
2003 Glenn Halloway
2007, 2008 William Padgett III
2009 Richard A. Fonseca