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Communication held in Port Townsend in June 1888, and served on the Committee on Returns and Work
of Lodges. The next year when the Grand Lodge convened in Olympia, he was there representing his Lodge
as its Worshipful Master. This time he served on the Committee on Finance.

He attended the next communication of the Grand Lodge, which was held in Ellensburg in June 1890. In
addition to performing his Committee duties, he was appointed by the newly elected Grand Master, and
installed as Grand Orator. During his term as Grand Orator, he acted as the Grand Master's deputy in
constituting Falls City Lodge, No. 66, on July 12, 1890.

At the 1891 Annual Communication, he would be elected and installed as Junior Grand Warden, a position
he held while serving as Worshipful Master of St. Johns Lodge, No. 9, for the third consecutive year. He
made a regular advance during the succeeding years, first to the office of Senior Grand Warden, in
Spokane, Deputy Grand Master, In Tacoma, and Most Worshipful Grand Master, in Everett.

During his time in the Oriental Chair, Most Worshipful Brother Taylor was busy. When the Grand Lodge
convened in Olympia on June 11, 1895, aside from routine matters, he reported that on July 4, 1894, he
had laid the cornerstone of a new building of the University of Washington, that he had rendered forty
decisions, acted on fifteen amendments to By-Laws of Lodges, granted sixteen special dispensations,
constituted two Lodges and granted dispensations for three new Lodges.

The completion of his year as Grand Master did not mean a cessation of Interest and activity in the Grand
Lodge, for during succeeding years he was called upon and served as follows: Once as a member of the
Jurisprudence Committee.; three times as a member of the Committee on Obituaries; twice on the
Committee on Charters and New Lodges; once on the Committee on Finance; once on the Committee on
By-Laws; for five years as Grand Lecturer, and during the last of such years he reported having instructed
49 Lodges and attended fifteen of the thirty visitations made by the Grand Master, In his capacity as Grand
Lecturer he delivered a lecture on "Masonry and Science," at the semi-centennial of Olympia Lodge, No,
1. He also served on a special committee appointed to consider and report on the District Deputy Grand
Master system. He was present at every Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge following the
completion of his Grand Mastership in 1895, down to 1932, with the exception of two, when he was
unavoidably detained. In 1915, when he was absent the second time, the following telegram was sent to
him by direction of the Grand Lodge:

"The Grand Lodge of Masons misses your inspiring presence, wise counsel and illuminating wit, and
regrets that public duties compel your absence."

He was the Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Ohio near our Grand Lodge from 1900 to the time
of his death. He acted as Grand Treasurer when the Grand Lodge convened to conduct the funeral services
for Past Grand Master Daniel Bagley, and as Junior Grand Warden during the Grand Lodge session in 1928,
the regular incumbent of that office, Right Worshipful Bro. Roy S. Hayward, having died during the year.
He was a member of a committee of three appointed to prepare a suitable memorial address on the life of
Past Grand Master Daniel Bagley, and, upon request of the Grand Master, he prepared and delivered the
memorial addresses on Past Grand Masters Joseph Smith, Joseph A. Kuhn, and John Arthur, all of whom
were especially dear to him. He was often a participant in the "love feast" that prevails just before the
closing of our Grand Lodge Annual Communications. The last recorded instance of such participation was
in Tacoma, in 1929, when he spoke, "making a Masonic application of the George Washington Farewell

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