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ALBERT HENRY LARKIN
Dedicated
to the Masonic Order, Albert Henry Larkin’s dream when he came to Rosemead in
1932 was to establish a Masonic Lodge there, an undertaking which he financed
and which he, with others, accomplished in 1949. He subsequently served as the first treasurer
of Masonic Lodge Number 702 in Rosemead and helped to form its
constitution. A Mason for more than half
a century, since he joined the Southgate Lodge in Los Angeles in 1906, Mr.
Larkin was awarded a fifty-year pin by the Grand Lodge of Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Rosemead-El Monte
branch of the San Gabriel Valley High Twelve Club, a Masonic organization, and
has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite
bodies and is a Shriner of Los Angeles.
Albert
Larkin was born in San Francisco on December 10, 1879, the son of Frank Larkin
of Janesville, Minnesota, and Frances Yates Larkin of Los Angeles, was brought
up in Los Angeles from infancy, and attended elementary school there. His grandfather and grandmother, who had come
to California from Boston by covered wagon, owned the land where the Pacific
Electric Railway Depot now stands at Sixth and Main streets in Los
Angeles. His mother was born in their
home at Third and Main.
For
thirty-five years, until his retirement in 1940, Mr. Larkin worked for the Los
Angeles Post Office. He is a member of
the National Association of Letter Carriers and is a charter member of
Federated Craft Number 2 of the Masonic Order.
Mr.
Larkin is also a member of Odd Fellows, with a fifty-year pin in that
organization. In Rosemead he became a
charter member of the Kiwanis Club after it succeeded the Forum Club; he was
president of Kiwanis in 1951 and was its secretary-treasurer for five
years. He is a member of the Rosemead
Chamber of Commerce and has served as a solicitor for Red Cross and the
Community Chest.
Mrs.
Larkin, the former Lillie Lynd of Chicago, Illinois, was employed by the Los
Angeles Post Office for twenty-five years.
She is a member and past secretary and treasurer of the Rosemead Women’s
Club. She is a charter member of the
Rosemead Order of Eastern Star No. 567 and belonged to the Homemaker’s Club for
twenty-five years. She has been active
in Rosemead, serving on many collection drives.
Long
interested in bowling, Mr. Larkin has won several Kiwanis bowling
trophies. Interested in classics in
literature, he collects first editions.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Page 785, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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