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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.

On the floor of Grand Lodge he was a master of advocacy. The almost certain inquiry on any subject under
consideration, "Where does Chadwick stand?" His appeal to the Craft was simple, direct and inherently
honest, and nearly always it prevailed. It was said that he stood unmoved by vociferous denunciation or
clamorous applause for opposition, and, by logical presentation of definite propositions which he
thoroughly understood, changed the whole aspect of the subject before the body. He dared to follow
through to its logical end exactly that for which he stood. He hated equivocation and double dealing, and

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