[2] The first meeting to organize "a young men's social club" was held at the home of Joseph A. Nesmith on November 11, 1882.
[1] At that time, the first elected officials Included: Other members included Joseph & James Nesmith, George S. Motley, Theodore E. Parker Jr., Walter U. Lawson, Paul Butler, Samuel E. Stott, Charles H. Hooke, Harry V. Huse, Edward Ellingwood, Herbert P. Jefferson, Fred C. Church, Gerard Bement, Harry A.
[6] Author Marc Scott Miller spent time during World War II at the Yorick Club.
He described his experience in his book The Irony of Victory: World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts: ... A good deal of soliciting for donations to the Red Cross and other social service organizations occurred informally at the Yorick Club, Lowell's exclusive lunch club for three hundred men of respectable positions and income: mill owners, managers, a few doctors and lawyers, 'successful' businessmen.
...Former World War II veteran Frederick F. Bobola managed the club in its later years prior to its dissolution.