OLDEST FREEMASON
It Is believed that at last the quest for the oldest Freemason in the world has been rewarded with success. Dr Joseph S. Halstead, who completed his 104th years on March 4, and who lives with his wife, aged ninety-three, at the village of Brackenbridge, Missouri, U.S.A., has proved his initiation in the Lexington Lodge No. 1 in 1842, of which ho is still a subscribing member. Dr Halstead graduated in 1840 and practised medicine until 1860, when he retired. For several years he was the family physician of Henry Clay. The farm which ho occupies has had but four owners—tbo King of Spain, Napoleon Bonaparte, the U.S.A. Government, and himself. Dr Halstead Ims eighty living descendants, and his birthday is observed annually as a general holiday in Breckenbridge.
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Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 3
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131OLDEST FREEMASON Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 3
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