The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02
OLDEST MEMBER TO
|. We'd LODGES Ward
"Uncle Billy" Moses Will Lead
Miss Marguerite Robertson
to the Altar
Ceremony Will Be Performed
Tonight Under Auspices of
Eastern Star Chapter

Uncle Billy" Moses. aged SO years
benedick and all Masonry will attend
the wedding. For William S. Moses is
the oldest Mason in California and he
is the only one in the state who has the
grand cross of the court of honor He
is one of the oldest grand masters of
the Scottish rite in California and the
only survivor of those present at the
formation of the first grand lodge in
the state. and ne is to marry the ward
of his Masonic lodge Golden Gate lodge
No 80, Miss Marguerite Robertson.
The wedding will be celebrated in
Golden Gate commandery hall in Sutter
street this evening at 9 o'clock and
will be under the auspices of Golden
Gate chapter No. /, Order of Eastern
Star, of which the bride is a member
Members of Golden Gate lodge of Ma
sons will also be present and more than
400 friends and fraternal brothers and
sisters of the bride and groom will at
tend. The bride, who will marry the
Oldest past master Mason in the state.
will be given away by the next oldest
past master, James Patterson of this
city.
JOURNEYS WEST TO WED
Miss Robertson has been living in
New York for many years and, as the
sprightly groom of nearly 81 years
says, she came west to we'd.
''I have only seen her twice in "A
years." said Moses; she has been liv-
ing in New York for many years"
Miss Robertson is the daughter of
Charles o. Robertson, who died many
years ago, when she was a little
Golden Gate girl. Robertson was a
prominent Mason and a member of
Golden Gate lodge. His wife died about
the time he did and the child became
the ward of Golden Gate lodge and has
ever been known as the Golden Gate
girl" Six years ago Moses wife died
and he sought as his bride the ward of
his lodge, the daughter of his old time
friend.
Moses, who is a venerable man
with fine gray beard. came to San
Francisco and California January /,
1850, missing being a '49er by 10 hours.
He became miner and millwright, but
is now retired and lives at TIC Eighth
avenue.
OLDEST MASON IN STATE
He joined the Masonic fraternity in
1S49 and is the oldest Mason of record
in the grand lodge in California He
has reaped many honors in the frater-
nifty. He was one of the founders of
Golden Gate lodge and named it, He
was the first master of that lodge and
had been a member of other lodges in
the east before Golden. Gate was or
ganized. He was one of those present
at the organization Of the grand lodge
of California and is the oldest survivor
of that assemblage.
He belongs to all the branches of
Masonry up to the thirty-second de-
gree, Scottish Rite, and is proud
wearer of the grand cross of the court
of honor. He was also the organizer
of the first chapter of the Eastern Star
founded in California, Golden Gate
chapter No. 1. He is a past grand
master of the grand consistory of Cali
fornia and at present is almoner for all
the bodies of the Scottish Rite in San
Francisco.
One hundred and fifteen times has
Moses been installed in Masonic office,
and as a patriarch of Masonry he lives
up to the name that ever has been as
sociated with patriarchs. He is also
venerable past grand patron of the
grand chapter of California, Order of
Eastern Star. He Will be the last
man. to hold that Office, the position
having been created specially for him.