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ALBERT A. SCHAEFER

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Deputy Grand Master, 1934
Grand Master, 1941-1943


TERM

1941 1942 1943

MEMORIAL

From Proceedings, Page 1947-412:

Brother Albert Adam Schaefer was born February 25, 1884, in Middletown, Connecticut, the son of John J. and Margaret E. (Olt) Schaefer. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1902, Harvard College in 1906, with the degree of A.B., and Harvard Law School in 1909, with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and practiced privately until 1913. From then until 1935, he was associated with the law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins of Boston, specializing in trial cases. In 1930 he became associated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a lecturer on business law, Assistant Professor in 1931, Associate Professor of Law and Government in 1935 and Professor in 1940. He was Special Assistant District Attorney for the Northern District of Massachusetts 1910-1912; Director of Enforcement, New England Fuel Administration, 1917-1919; counsel for numerous railroads and steamship-line receiverships 1914-1935. He was also on the panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association and held membership in the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations.

He was of the Episcopal faith, and was a noted American boy soprano of his day. He even sang in the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Nordica.

On February 1, 1935, he married Ethel K. Potter, who survives him.

His Masonic record is as follows:

  • Symbolic: He was made a Master Mason in St. John's Lodge No. 2 of Middletown, Connecticut, September 22, 1905, which membership he retained until his death; became a Charter

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CHARTERS GRANTED

None.

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