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WILLIAM L. JOHNSON 1856-1931

Junior Grand Warden, 1918

MEMORIAL

From Proceedings, Page 1931-151:

Brother Johnson was born in Southboro, Mass., October 23, 1856, ancl died in Saint Vincent's Hospital, Worcester, July 3, 1931. His death followed a major surgical operation from which he failed to rally.

He was educated in the public schools of Southboro, Worcester, and Cambridge and at Harvard University, where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1878. He took up the practice of medicine in Uxbridge and continued to practice there successfully for the remainder of his life. As physician, medical examiner for more than twenty years, holder of many town offices, and member of the Legislature, he was one of the leading citizens of that part of the state for many years. His public and social activities were many and useful, and he left a place in the community which it will be hard to fill.

He received his degrees in Solomon's Temple Lodge in 1886 and was chosen Junior Warden at the next annual election. He was Master in 1889 and 1890 and Chaplain from 1900 to his death. He was District Deputy Grand Master for the then Nineteenth Masonic District in 1896 and 1897 by appointment of M.W. Edwin B. Holmes and M.W. Charles C. Hutchinson. He was Junior Grand Warden in 1918, sitting in Grand Lodge when his Lodge observed its one hundredth anniversary. Although so long active in his Lodge and in Grand Lodge he never took any other than the symbolic degrees.

He was very active in the Foresters of America and was State Chief Ranger in 1923.

He is survived by a widow and three daughters.

So passes another of the "old guard", to whom the Brethren looked for the leadership which must now be exercised by others as we close our ranks and move forward.

From Proceedings, Page 1931-179:

Distinguished Brothers