Past Masters
Albert Pike Lodge No. 303
1930’s
Robert J Bailey
1939
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Leo L Daugherty
1938
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Bruce Newton
1937
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Ralph C McCutcheon
1936
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Albert Davies
1935
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Fred Horn
1934
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James A MaGee
1933
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James H Stewart
1932
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Richard M Adenauer
1931
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Fred L Little
1930
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Robert J Bailey
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Bailey worked for Firestone Rubber Co. Membership hit its Depression low in his year. Leo Morz redecorated the hall and parlor, and the lodge bought the big walnut parlor table.
Leo L Daugherty
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Daugherty was credit manager for Crane & Co. His record as Master was so clean that the Past Masters’ Association found nothing to tax him with.
Bruce Newton
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Newton was a salesman for the National Biscuit Co. In his year the death of Senior Warden Oren Carter broke the regular officer succession for the first time in many years. He was serving as Assistant Secretary in 1944 and became Grand Master of Kansas in 1953.
Ralph C McCutcheon
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother McCutcheon, known as “Mike,” was a collection teller at the First National Bank. He saved the lodge’s book of by-laws and members’ signatures by having it rebound. Otto Souders of Wichita Lodge No. 99 was Grand Master that year.
Albert Davies
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Davies worked in the Supply and Maintenance Department of the Wichita Board of Education. Degree work picked up as conditions improved, though losses continued; the lodge stood at 2,224 members.
Fred Horn
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Horn served on the State Tax Commission and was still a member of the Kansas Commission of Revenue and Taxation into the early 1950s. His was the lightest year in a decade for degree work, with continued losses in membership.
James A MaGee
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Magee worked for the Arkansas Valley Interurban, the electric railway that ran from Wichita to Newton, Halstead and Hutchinson. The Depression continued through his year, with a net loss in membership despite steady degree work.
James H Stewart
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Stewart was in the life insurance business. His was a Depression and Dust Bowl year, with a net loss in membership. He went on to serve as Grand Master of Kansas in 1947.
Richard M Adenauer
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Adenauer worked for the Wichita Flour Mills. His memory was so good that he still gave the lectures on Past Masters’ Night years later, and he was serving as the lodge’s Treasurer in 1944.
Fred L Little
Past Master, Albert Pike Masonic Lodge
Brother Little was a freight agent for the Rock Island Railroad. For years after his term he provided watermelons for a midsummer meeting and apples on election night. The lodge had 2,643 members at the end of his year.