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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ Gustav H. Schultz

1946-1947

Most Worshipful Brother Gustav (Gus) Henry Schultz was
born in Danville, Illinois on August 19th, 1878, the third of
five children of native German parents who immigrated to
this country in 1870 and became naturalized Americans. He
attended the public schools of Danville and the Chicago
College of Pharmacy. After graduation he was engaged in his
own drug business until 1922 when he came West, first to
Denver and then to Seattle in 1925.

Brother Schultz was raised a Master Mason in Olive Branch
Lodge No. 38, in Danville, Illinois, in 1911. He would
become a charter member and the first Senior Warden of Anchor Lodge No. 980, serving as Master
in 1916. He was commissioned as Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Illinois by Most
Worshipful Grand Master Elmer Beach. He received the 32nd Degree in Danville Consistory,
A.A.S.R., Northern Jurisdiction, and served as its High Priest of the Council, Princes of Jerusalem.
He also became a member of Mohammed Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., at Peoria.

At the institution of Totem Lodge U. D. of Seattle in 1938, he served as its Junior Warden, and as
its charter Master in 1940. He assisted in the organization, and was a dual member of Exemplar
Lodge No.
284. He affiliated with Washington Consistory, A.A.S.R., Southern Jurisdiction, in 1937, and was
made a Knight Commander Court of Honor in 1943. He was a member of Ballard Chapter No. 26,
R. A. M., of Seattle. He was an Honorary Member of Warren G. Harding Lodge No. 260, and of
Home Lodge No. 100.

In 1941, our Brother would be appointed Grand Lecturer of our Grand Jurisdiction by Most
Worshipful Brother John A. Emigh, and re-appointed to this position in 1942. At the 86th Annual
Communication of the Grand Lodge of Washington at Wenatchee he was elected Junior Grand
Warden, and, serving through the line, was elected Grand Master at Spokane in June 1946.

Perhaps no words could express his way of life better than those with which he closed his message
to the Grand Lodge when he presided as Grand Master in 1947:

"In a few short hours, this gavel will pass to the hand of a very worthy and sincere Mason, and I
shall modestly again take my place among my brothers, pledging to the new Grand Master my