The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-21
MasOnS Select Wichita For Next
Meeting Place.
Grand Lodge Chose That City in
Preference to Topeka.
THOS. e. DEWEY NAMED
Abilene Man Elected Grand
Master of the Order
Of Fine Literary Attachments
and Splendid Character.

Fort Scott, Feb. .21-The Masonic
grand lodge of Kansas last night COM
pleted four days session and adjourn
ed. 1t took an hour of balloting to Sc
lect the place of holding the next an
nual meeting and Wichita was finally
chosen, with Topeka a close second.
The following officers of the grand
lodge for the ensuing year We're elected
in the afternoon:
Thomas E. Dewey of Abilene grand
master.
Bestor G. Brown. of Topeka, deputy
grand master.
Thomas G. Fitch. of Wichita. grand
senior warden.
A. H. Ellis, of Beloit, grand junior
warden.
Robert E. Torrington, of Wichita.
grand treasurer.
Albert K. Wilson, of Topeka, grand
secretary.
Thomas Emmett Dewey, who was cho-
sen grand master of the grand lodge of
Kansas, belongs to the younger genera
ton of western Masonry and has risen
rapidly in the order.
Mr.. Dewey was made Mason in Ben
evolent lodge, at Abilene, Kan, in the
year 1888. His first Office was senior
deacon in 1890, thence passing through
the chairs and becoming master in 1898,
He received the capitular degrees in
Cyrus chapter, at Abilene in 1896, serv-
ing as high priest in 1901. Abilene COM
mandery created him a knight Templar
in 1898 and he is its present commander
His council membership is at Ellsworth
his Scottish Rite at Wichita and his
shrine at SaIina. He will represent Isis
temple at the imperial council in June
at San Francisco. The supreme council
of the Scottish Rite made him a K. c.
c. H at its meeting at Washington in
October, 1901.
The work which first gave Mr.. Dewey
his standing in the grand lodge was
performed by him as a member of the
-f-sr, - -sxl.
pared the Laws of Masonry a vol
ume of AIS pages and the most COM
plete of its kind in existence The in
dex digest, which contains 156 pages.
his name is attached to it.
Mr.. Dewey was born in Victor, N. Y,
January 6, 1859, and was educated at
the University of Rochester. In 1879 he
located in Abilene, where, though as one
of the leading attorneys of the state
and law partner of Senator J. r. Bur-
ton, his practice has been more than
local. he has since resided. He was
married in 1881, his family consisting
of wife, daughter and two sons.
For four years he has been reporter
of the Kansas supreme court. The fore
most law journals of the country have
praised the Kansas reports issued un-
der his direction as unequaled by those
of any other commonwealth for their
complete and satisfactory editing and
perfection of arrangement
In the literary development of the |
west Mr.. Dewey has likewise attained |
prominence. In 1901 he received the |
degree of Lift. D. from the College of |
Emporia, and has been recognized as |
a critic and lecturer on literary topics. |
AS in Masonry he is a strict ritualist, |
though not sacrificing sentiment to |
form, so in literature he has been an |
of careful adherence to the |
principles of art as defined by the |
masters. His own example as mani /
tested in his Masonic and law work |
testifies to his thorough comprehension |
of what is best and purest in diction.