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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ Platt A. Preston: 1876-1877
In this centennial year Grand Lodge elected as its leader Platt
Adams Preston, a businessman of Waitsburg. He was born
November 1, 1837 in Saratoga, New York, and came to Waitsburg
in 1866 to engage in flour milling. He was successful in business
and was elected to the first State Senate.
Where he was made a Mason is not now of record, but he became
a charter member of Waitsburg Lodge, No. 16, in 1870. He served
as its Master seven years between 1872 and 1887. He died March
12, 1900 in Galveston, Texas, where he had gone for his health.
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