Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

Knights Templar and at Denver In 1872 was
elected grand senior warden. Subsequently,
at each succeeding triennial conclave, he
was elected to the next highest station,
until. at the twenty-eighth triennial con-
clave, held in San Francisco in September,
1904, he was unanimously elected grand
master of the Grand Encampment.
Mr.. Moulton has for many years been an
interested member of the Royal Order of
Scotland, being the provincial senior grand
warden of the Provincial Grand Lodge Of
that order.
In 1885 he became one of the incorpor-
ators of the Illinois Masonic Orphans
Home. and was elected president of that
organization. filling that office until 1880,
when he voluntarily retired, remaining,
however, as member Of the board of trus-
tees to the present time. During his presl-
dency the association acquired property
valued at 100000 and free from debt.
Under his administration the corner stone
was laid for another home for aged Ma
sons and -Masons' widows and orphans at
Sullivan, II.
Capt. Hamilton Ward. jr., of Buffalo. N.
Y. was born in the District Of Columbia in
1871, at which time his father, the late
Hamilton Ward, was a member Of the For
ty<first Congress, serving during the recon-
struction period; was a member of the
reconstruction committee and also Of the
COIlilIlttSe lildl pItpdIG Gu the VI I'LL
parchment against Andrew Johnson, repre-
senting the twenty-seventh congressional
district of New York. Capt Ward attended
the Vermont Episcopal Institute at Burning
ton, VT, military school and studied
law in his fathers office in Belmont, N. Y.
When his father was elected a justice of
the supreme court of the state of New
York young Ward removed to Buffalo
being admitted to the bar in 1892 Shortly
thereafter he became assistant district at
torney of Erie county and retained in that
position until the breaking out of hostid-
ties with Spain, when he resigned and was
commissioned a captain in the 202d New
York Volunteer Infantry; served with his
regiment until its muster out on April IS,
1889, at Savannah, Ga. being engaged prin-
cipally in garrison duty In western Cuba.
He has been practicing law in Buffalo
since that time. He has been interested in
organization of Spanish War Veterans since
its foundation; was department judge ad-
vocate in 1901; and secured the enactment
of laws placing Spanish War Veterans on
the same basis as G. A. r. men in respect
to holidays, appropriation for memorial
service, funeral expenses. license and in
part poor relief. He was erected national
judge advocate in 1902 at the Detroit en-
campment and was on the committee on
amalgamation; assisted in preparing the
rules and regulations that are now substan-
TALLY in force and prepared the manual for
courts martial; he also assisted Past De-
partment Commander Simmons of RocheS-
ter. n. Y, in the preparation of the rituai
for the Installation of camps.
His name was presented for national
commander at ST. Louis in 1904, but he was
defeated by William E. English by two
votes. He organized and was chairman for
number of years of the Buffalo joint city
board, and is now camp commander of Sey-
burn Camp. He received the unanimous in
dcrsement of the Department of New York
at it's state encampment this year, and has
since that time been officially Endorsed by
the states of Indiana and Ohio, whose dele
gates were instructed to vote for him.
Capt. Ward will reach Washington today,