W. l. blanton
PGM William Lafayette Blanton
I.O.O.F. Grand Master of Texas in 1896
Texas Legislator
From: Gainsville, Texas
I.O.O.F. Grand Master of Texas in 1896
Texas Legislator
From: Gainsville, Texas
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The meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge in Texas in 1896 was doubly important to Texas Odd Fellows who had not only the honor of entertaining and mingling with men composing the highest tribunal of Odd Fellowship known to the world but who had also the additional honor of seeing one of their own number, a brother with whom many of them had been meeting in the Grand Lodge of Texas for more than a quarter of a century, Brother Fred Carleton of Austin installed into the honorable position of Grand Sire the highest office in the gift of American Odd Fellowship This was one of the many happy events in the history of the Order in Texas.
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