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SIR
HIRAM T. GRAVES
The following sketch is from the Masonic Record: He was raised a Master
Mason in St. Paul’s Lodge, No. 124, in Auburn, N. Y., December, 1848, exalted
to the Royal Arch degree in David’s Chapter, No. 34, of the same place, August,
1853, and knighted in Salem Town Commandery, No. 16,
at Auburn, in March, 1859. He came to California in 1849, and has taken an
active part in establishing and advancing Masonry on the Pacific Coast. He
served as Master of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 30, in San Francisco, High Priest of
California Chapter, No. 5, Commander of California Commandery,
No. 1, and has held the office of Grand Treasurer of the Grand Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons of the State of California since April, 1874. He filled the
honorable and responsible position of Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of California in 1876-’77 and’78. He was elected
Secretary of the Triennial Committee in 1878. Mr. Graves seems to have
inherited in some degree his love of Masonry, as his father, who died in San
Francisco in 1880, had been a valiant Sir Knight over fifty years, and at the
time of his death was the oldest Mason on the Coast.
Mr. Graves has an abiding faith in
the future of the Order, is frank and manly in bearing, believes that all
Masons are brothers that owe each other assistance and sympathy, and his genial
nature and personal character exemplify in the highest degree the noble and
magnanimous principles of Masonry.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Illustrated
Fraternal Directory Including Educational Institutions on the Pacific Coast”,
Page 114, Publ. Bancroft Co., San Francisco. Cal. 1889.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies