FIDELITY LODGE HISTORY

Fidelity is the oldest Lodge in District 11, and has the honor of being the Lodge by which all District 11 Lodges originated from. Fidelity was granted a dispensation to operate as a U.D. Lodge January 1903. The Lodge was constituted Fidelity Lodge No.10 on July 21, 1903 by Grand Master Joseph S. Hatton. The ten founding members of the lodge were:

Worshipful Master Richmond C. Marshall
Senior Warden Cassius M. Dickens
Junior Warden A. H. Henderson
Treasurer A. L. Brown
Secretary Gustavus A. Thompson
Senor Deacon William Marshall
Junior Deacon Thad Williams
Tyler Edmund C Marshall
Chaplin James W. Gray 33rdº
Marshall J. Freeman

Richmond C. Marshall went onto serve as Grand Master of California Jurisdiction in 1906, due to illness only served one year.

January 2006 Starling J. Hopkins #88 merged with Fidelity Lodge #10 F&AM and relinquished their charter. Initially Starling J. Hopkins Lodge No. 88 was instituted May 12, 1956, constituted October 21, 1956 under Most Worshipful Grand Master Edgar Al Fulcher. Fidelity has met in many locations one of them being Elks Lodge on Commercial Street. In 1956 Fidelity moved into its own building at 3007 Logan Avenue, where members enjoys meetings on the First and Third Friday of each month.