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Tyrian Lodge was organized under dispensation November Tenth, 1859 under dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Illinois. Five candidates were initiated. and four were passed and raised. Those raised were George R. Teasdale, William Billington, Walter C. Whitney and Peter M. Pitcher, all of whom joined in the petition for a charter.

On the second day of October 1860, the lodge was constituted by the Most Worshipful Grand Master, in the presence of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, as Tyrian Lodge No. 333, A. F. & A. M.