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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ Platt A. Preston
1876-1877
In this centennial year Grand Lodge elected as its leader Platt
Adams Preston, a businessman of Waitsburg. He was born
November 1, 1837 in Saratoga, New York, and came to
Waitsburg in 1866 to engage in flour milling. He was successful
in business and was elected to the first State Senate.
Where he was made a Mason is not now of record, but he became
a charter member of Waitsburg Lodge, No. 16, in 1870. He
served as its Master seven years between 1872 and 1887. He died
March 12, 1900 in Galveston, Texas, where he had gone for his
health.
