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became permanently endeared to each.

At times he differed radically from his associate justices, and when he did, there was no doubt as to
where he stood. A marked example of this is found in the case of In Re Brown's Estate, 83 Wash.
528, in which the en banc court majority of six judges affirmed in less than two pages the holding
of a trial court that the will of one Sarah J. Brown was not a forgery. Justice Chadwick, however,
was convinced to the contrary and wrote a thirty page dissenting opinion, with photostatic
reproductions of known and doubted signatures of the lady in question. By his arguments he
logically drove home point after point as a result of careful research and of consultations with
experts, and left for all time an excellent treatise, and the only exhaustive one in our state reports
on handwriting. Subsequent disclosures have demonstrated that Justice Chadwick's opinion was
correct.

In Masonry our distinguished brother took an active part from the time of becoming a Master
Mason in Hiram Lodge, No. 21, at Colfax, on January 23, 1892. He was appointed by Most
Worshipful Grand Master Thomas Amos as the first Master of Amos Lodge, U. D., to which he
had dimitted, in the following February, in which capacity he served on being elected in 1893 and
in 1898. When these two Lodges were later consolidated, he again became a member of Hiram
Lodge, No. 21, and so remained throughout his life.

Most Worshipful Brother Chadwick first attended our Grand Lodge as the representative of Amos
Lodge, U. D., in 1892, and he thereafter attended continuously through all Annual
Communications for a period of forty years. He was elected Junior Grand Warden in 1895 and was
again elected to that station in 1897, from which he was regularly advanced to become Grand
Master in 1900. Since that time he has served most of the important committees of our Grand
Lodge and has headed several, notably the Committee on Grievance and Appeals, the
chairmanship of which committee he held until his death.
Most Worshipful Brother Chadwick was a member of Colfax Chapter, No. 8, Royal Arch Masons,
and served as High Priest in 1905. He also became a Noble of the Order of the Mystic Shrine; a
member of the Red Cross of Constantine in Seattle; a member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite Mason, from which he was elected a Knight Commander of the Court of Honor in the Valley
of Seattle and at time of his death, was Senior Warden in Washington Chapter of Rose Croix. In
1902 he was Grand Patron of the Order of Eastern Star, and for many years served as one of its
principal advisers.
Our illustrious brother was stricken and died, almost before his illness was known, on November
19, 1931. The funeral services were held in the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple at Seattle under
auspices of Washington Chapter, Knights of the Rose Croix, with Grand Master Thomas M.
Askren acting as Wise Master. A vast concourse of sorrowing friends attended, both humble and
distinguished alike grieved by a loss, the like of which they had not known before. No more genuine
tribute of real affection from a state at large to a distinguished citizen, and to a dearly beloved
friend could have been given. They honored him in death, as they bad in life, as the granite rock
of manhood, of character, and of unswerving love he had so frequently made manifest to the least
of them by the simplicity of his great soul.