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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ William H. Troup

1869-1870

Grand Lodge chose William H. Troup of Vancouver as it’s new
leader. He was a steamboat captain on the Columbia and Cowlitz
Rivers and had spent most of his life as a seafaring man.

He was born in London on April 16, 1827, and was made a
Mason in Washington Lodge, No. 4, in 1858 shortly after he
settled in Vancouver. He served as Master of that Lodge in 1864.
He was for years a captain of the vessels of the Oregon Steam
Navigational Co. He died in Vancouver on April 8, 1882 of
paralysis. Grand Master Ralph Guichard said of him in Grand
Lodge that year: “Though Brother Troupe was not an active
member at the time of his death, he was yet a true and consistent Mason during his checkered life.”