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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 services and
bespeaking for him the same devotion that you have accorded me. We will have come to the end of another

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