The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-16
ROSWELL BRADLEY FARREN
AND VALUED LEAD
 ER OF THE 4. o. U. ".


 # ER OF THE 4. 0. U. ". X His Great Usefuiness to the Order
 Earnest, Able and Efficient, and Es- N teemed in All the Relations of Life Hts Business Life--A Sketch of His
 Career.
 The announcement of the sudden x death of Roswell B. Farren, at his resi- dence. No. 349 Lenox street, last Satur- day evening, will be received with real x sorrow by his many friends in this city and by legion of associates in the 2 fraternal organzations with which he ' was so prominently connected. Mir. Farren was only fifty-fve years old & and although for several years he had < not been in the best of health, so X bravely did he overcome his physical x anflrmities and so cheerfully did he take up the battle of life, never thinking of himself but ever thoughtful of oth- \ CTS, that his death seems indeed sudden md unexpected.
 5 For many years the deceased had been well known among our business X men as the secretary and treasurer of < the Farren Brothers company, manu ! Skacturers of spring beds at No. 4 Ar 4lxan street. and as manager of the
 Challenge Starch company. Before the
 Generalization of the town and city gov
 Nrnments he was a member of the \ board of selectmen and upon the adop-
 tion of the present city charter was ap- M pointed member of the board of chari- ! lftee, serving through the adninistra- s ton of Mayor Farnsworth. He secured
 his wide circle of acquaintance, how over, by his active interest in fraternal 6ocieties. He was a thirty second de- Gree Mason, and held membership in ! g!fhe Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, \ Knights of Honor Heptasophs, Macca-
 kees Woodmen, New England Order of @ Protection, and the Ancient Order of
 Limited Workmen. In many of these
 kraternities he held important offices,
 but 1t was the A. o. U. w. to which he
 
 became the most closely identified.
 Joining East Rock lodge, of this city, s AR charter member, in December, 1888, E Mr. Farren was elected it's first past # master workman. In February, 1889, he went to Boston as the representa- five of his lodge at the annual meeting # 0f the Grand lodge of Massachusetts,
 which until quite recently had jurisdic- tlon over all the subordinate lodges of
 the order in New England. The follow < ing year he was elected grand overseer
 cf the Grand lodge and appointed to < Supervise the lodges in this state In \ 78g1 he filled the office of grand fora man and in 1892 he was unanimously # elected grand master workman. Upon ~ retiring from this office he was chosen Hss Representative to the Supreme lodge,
 which office he held for three years, af- < ter which he was elected trustee and
 appointed upon various important 2 cnmmittees of that body His attend NJ Ance at ten consecutive annual meet
 4ngs of the Supreme lodge brought him
 into close relations with the members
 ship of the order in nearly every state In the Union from Maine to California.
 During the four years in which MT. z Farren supervised the A. O. U. w. in z aalis state its membership increased
 from less than thirty three hundred to x nearly eight thousand and among the new members were not only mechanics
 but merchants, lawyers, clergymen,
 physicians, and men of wealth and in- ssafiuence, many of whom joined the or Z der not so much to secure it's benefit as Y 10 encourage an organization which they had been brought to realize as an
 4mportant factor in the social problem. Z It was during the year in which he was
 Its chief executive officer that the ' Grand lodge Of Massachusetts became A the largest jurisdiction in the order
 and made the largest gain in member < BIip ever made by any jurisdiction be-
 fore or since. But it was not merely
 by devising and executing plans for
 large accessions to it's membership that Z he advanced the cause of Workman I@Bhip. He was foremost in every move < ment tending to strengthen the organi-
 zatiOn. The reduction of the age limit tor candidates, the extension of the
 lodge deputy system, the classification
 pf the membership, the rejection of
 Hazardous risks, everything calculated \ to secure stability and perpetuity re-
 ceived his hearty support and the bene- fit of his far reaching influence. The years of unseIf1sh devotion to the A. o. slU. w., the purity of his motives his sabiding faith in it's principles will never be forgotten by those for whom and with whom he 1abored: the results of his labors will endure forever. x MT. Farren leaves wife, and two sons Edward H. and William H., both scf whom were associated with him in business. The funeral services will be held at his late residence tomorrow af- | aternoon at half past two o'clock. ... A