MW John Arthur 1902-03
M.W. John Arthur
40th Grand Master of Washington - 1902-1903
Laid the cornerstone of Tacoma Lodges building assisted by Bro. Theodore Roosevelt - U.S. President. In 1902 Grand Lodge chose as its new Grand Master a lawyer and native of Ireland. John Arthur was born at Ennis, Ireland, June 20, 1849. He crossed the Atlantic as a youth in 1861 and lived in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Columbia University law school and practiced for a time in Washington, D.C. In 1883 he came to Tacoma as attorney for a land company, and in 1887 he located in Seattle. He was president of the Washington State Bar Assn. and a member of the Authors Club of London. He was a fluent linguist, an exceptional writer, and an able Masonic scholar and a lovable personality. He was a popular Masonic speaker and a Grand Lodge worker up to the time of his death in Seattle on Dec. 23, 1926. He was a member of St. John’s Lodge, No.9, and was its Master in 1894.
“Not Made with Hands,” the Centennial History of the M W Grand Lodge of F.& A.M. of Washington and Alaska, Volume II - By: VW Paul W.
Harvey, Grand Historian, 4, Vol. I, pg. 72
40th Grand Master of Washington - 1902-1903
Laid the cornerstone of Tacoma Lodges building assisted by Bro. Theodore Roosevelt - U.S. President. In 1902 Grand Lodge chose as its new Grand Master a lawyer and native of Ireland. John Arthur was born at Ennis, Ireland, June 20, 1849. He crossed the Atlantic as a youth in 1861 and lived in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Columbia University law school and practiced for a time in Washington, D.C. In 1883 he came to Tacoma as attorney for a land company, and in 1887 he located in Seattle. He was president of the Washington State Bar Assn. and a member of the Authors Club of London. He was a fluent linguist, an exceptional writer, and an able Masonic scholar and a lovable personality. He was a popular Masonic speaker and a Grand Lodge worker up to the time of his death in Seattle on Dec. 23, 1926. He was a member of St. John’s Lodge, No.9, and was its Master in 1894.
“Not Made with Hands,” the Centennial History of the M W Grand Lodge of F.& A.M. of Washington and Alaska, Volume II - By: VW Paul W.
Harvey, Grand Historian, 4, Vol. I, pg. 72
