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First Row: Harrison Kauffman, District Deputy
Grand Master; W.R. Smith, Assistant Grand Secretary; John H.
Anderson, Past Grand Master, Grand Secretary; Harry T. Paterson,
Junior Grand Warden; J. Giles Hudson, Deputy Grand Master; Charles
B. Newcomb, Grand Master; Frederick Newcomb, son of the Grand
Master; Leon Cash, Past Grand Master, Grand Lecturer; Dr. C.P.
Eldridge, Grand Steward; J.E. Shipman, Grand Steward; W.D. Terry,
Grand Tiler. Second Row: Rev. H.A. Cox, Grand Chaplain; F.F.
Harding, Past Master of Raleigh Lodge No. 500; Rev. C.K. Proctor,
Past Master of William G. Hill Lodge No. 218; Roy R. Pool, Master of
Hiram Lodge No. 40; J.C. Brantley, Jr., Master of Raleigh Lodge No.
500; D.A. Brown, Master of St. John’s Lodge No. 1; Henry L. Taylor,
Past Master, Secretary of St. John’s Lodge No. 1; E.T. Hancock of
St. John’s Lodge No. 1; John S. McEachern of St. John’s Lodge No. 1.
Third Row: Frank I. Watson, Past Master, Treasurer of Hiram Lodge
No. 40; Charles S. Perry, Past Master of Hiram Lodge No. 40; O.A.
Alford, Past Master of William G. Hill Lodge No. 218; Edwin W.
Yates, Past Master of William G. Hill Lodge No. 218; John A.
Livingstone of St. John’s Lodge No. 1 (third from [end] on right);
Asa Allen, Tiler of St. John’s Lodge No. 1; the tall man is Brother
W.B. Savage. In this row are several Masons whose names we do not
have. Sixty North Carolina Lodges and nine Masonic Sister
Jurisdictions were represented. The degree team of 34 was made up
from members of 12 lodges.