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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ Nathan S. Porter: 1888-1889

Only a few have held elective Grand Lodge offices longer than
Nathan Smith Porter, an Olympia lawyer who was elected Grand
Master in 1888. He served 23 years in all. He was elected Junior
Grand Warden in 1885, Deputy Grand Master in 1887, Grand
Master the next year, and then Grand Treasurer for 20 terms from
1900 until he retired and the office was abolished in 1919.

He was born May 24, 1834 in New York State and was educated
there and in Ohio. He was another young man who came west to
California, and he arrived there in 1853. He came north to Seattle
in 1858 and then settled in Olympia in 1860. He was chief clerk
of the Territorial Legislature in 1866 and later was prosecuting
attorney of Thurston County. He received his Entered Apprentice
Degree in Grand Mound Lodge, No. 3 in 1867 and was not raised
until 1880 in Harmony Lodge, No. 18, in Olympia. He served as
its Treasurer. He died in Olympia December 25, 1920 at age 86.

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