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| Peter Lassen |
The first Tiler's Register shows visits on October 17th and October 31st, 1857, of Peter Lassen, famous California pioneer and also very prominent in the earliest Masonic history of this State.
In the one hundred years of Chico Lodge No. 111 many names have been signed on the Roll Book. Some were those of men who played important roles in the building of this community and of the state. There was Samuel Neal, one of the first three settlers in this immediate vicinity and who owned extensive tracts of land here as early as 1844, which was even before Bidwell settled on Rancho Chico. The present Neal Road to Paradise is named for him. There was Ira Watherbee, proprietor of the mine at Magalia where the famous "Dogtown" nugget was found; Edward B. Pond, later Mayor of San Francisco; August H. Chapman, founder of Chapmantown; G. W. Durham, founder of Durham; J.W.B. Montgomery, Brigadier General of the California National Guard and father of Josephine Montgomery, for whom Josephine Chapter, O.E.S. of Chico was named; Carnot Courtland Mason, who became Grand Commander of Knights Templar of California; and there were numerous important county officials, several State Assemblymen and at least one State Senator.
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