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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ James R. Hayden: 1874-1875
Brother James R. Hayden was elected as Grand Master in 1874.
He was born February 22, 1837 in Oswego, New York and
served in the Civil War. He came to Washington Territory from
Chicago in 1870 and for 20 years was a collector of internal
revenue and worked in the federal land office in Olympia.
He was made a Mason in Blair Lodge, No. 393 of Chicago, and
affiliated with Olympia Lodge, No. 1 in 1870. He served as its
Master in 1872. He was manager of a savings bank in Seattle
and a regent of the University of Washington for a time, and for
numerous years before his death on November 15, 1902 in
Seattle he was sovereign Grand Inspector General in
Washington for the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction.
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