”Dunlap Lodge No. 321 A. F. & A. M:—The Lodge was organized May 30, 1859, and charter issued October 5, 1859, when Ira A. W. Buck was Grand Master of Masons of the State. Charter members:  …Jos. Ware,…”

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History of Whiteside County, Illinois, by Charles Bent, 1877, page 319