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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ William H. White
1884-1885
William Henry White, a Past Master of St. John’s Lodge, No. 9,
was elected as the new head of Masonry. He was a leading Seattle
lawyer and served in the Legislature, as King County prosecuting
attorney, and as a judge on the State Supreme Court.
He was born May 24, 1842 at Wellsburg, West Virginia, and was
made a Mason in Wellsburg Lodge, No. in 1869. He served in the
Civil War and came to Seattle in 1874 to practice law. He was a
Master of St. John’s Lodge in 1880. He died in Seattle April 29,
1914.
