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ALBERT L. HARWOOD

Senior Grand Steward, 1894-1896
Senior Grand Deacon, 1897
Deputy Grand Master, 1898

MEMORIAL

From Proceedings, Page 1938-403:

Born in Hardwick, Mass., Sept. 10, 1847
Died in Newton, Mass., Sept. 30, 1938

Right Worshipful Brother Harwood was raised in King Philip Lodge, June 15, 1875. He dimitted from King Philip Lodge in 1880 and affiliated with Dalhousie Lodge on September 15, 1880 and was its Worshipful Master in 1886 and 1887. He was District Deputy Grand Master for the 5th Masonic District during the years 1890 and 1891 by appointment of M.W. Samuel Wells, Grand Master, and served the Grand Lodge as Senior Grand Steward from 1894 to 1896, and as Grand Deacon for the year 1897. In 1898 by appointment of M.W. Charles C. Hutchinson, Grand Master, he served as Deputy Grand Master. He had received at the hands of the Grand Lodge both the Veteran's and Henry Price medals.

He was exalted in King Philip Royal Arch Chapter in 1885. He was a member of the Cryptic Council and of Gethsemane Commandery, serving as Commander from 1885 to 1887, and as Associate Prelate, Prelate, and Prelate Emeritus until his death, a record of forty-eight years of continuous service in Gethsemane Commandery. He was the possessor of the Thomas Smith Webb forty-year medal.

For many years he was a member of the Board of Trial Commissioners, in which position he gave faithful and efficient service.

Right Worshipful Brother Harwood was a son of Andrew J. and Harriet (Parlin) Harwood. He was a direct descendant of Henry Harwood, who came in 1630 with Governor Winthrop and settled in Charlestown.

After attending the Ware schools and Williston Academy, he taught for several years in Ware and Fall River before going to the Mason School. He left teaching in 1890 when he was admitted to the bar following several years of law study in the Boston office of Judge Robert R. Bishop.

Besides many associations with community organizations, R.W. Brother Harwood was a charter member of the Neighbors Club in Newton, a founder and former Trustee chairman of the Wrentham State School, and a Trustee of the Newton Center Savings Bank.

He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the years 1895 and 1896, and of the State Senate from 1897 to 1899; and from 1900 to 1906 was a member of the State Board of Insanity.

He is survived by a son, Albert L. Harwood, and two grandchildren. Faithful and conscientious in every task he undertook; quiet and unassuming in his nature; friendly to all with whom he came in contact; keenly interested in his Masonic activities and all matters of public interest in the community in which he lived; successful in his work as a teacher in the early days of his life; he achieved an enviable reputation as a lawyer during his more than forty years at the bar; highly respected, dearly beloved by those who knew him best, he will be greatly missed in the City of Newton where he had resided for so many years, and in Boston where he had established many close business, personal, and social friendships.

"How brief this drama of our life appears,
The good die not. This heritage they leave -
The record of a life in virtue spent;
For our own loss at parting we may grieve -
Lives such as his build their own monuments."

Respectfully submitted
Claude L. Allen
Francis D. Taylor
Louis S. Huber
Committee

Distinguished Brothers