Most Worshipful Brother Alexander Edwin Eberhardt

Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah 1928.

Our present Grand Master comes to the head of the Craft with a somewhat varied business experience. As boy and man, he has been connected with a printing office, book bindery, wire mattress company, clerk in a law office, stenographer and clerk with a coal company and later traveling sales agent for the same company, and for the last twenty-five years with a mattress and manufacturing company.

Grand Master Eberhardt was born in the Sunflower State-at Salina, December 14th, 1879. With his father's family he left Kansas in 1891, stopped for a short time in Grand Junction, Colorado, and in September of the same year settled in Salt Lake. In due time he entered the Salt Lake High School from which he graduated with honors, in the class of 1898. Since 1903 he has been associated with his father in the Salt Lake Mattress and Manufacturing Company, a Utah Corporation doing business throughout the intermountain country, of which corporation he is Secretary and Treasurer.

In business circles he has been something of a "live wire": active in the Chamber of Commerce, having served three years on its Board of Governors; President of the Advertising Club; Director, and later President of the Manufacturers' Association, and a Charter Member and the first District Governor of the Kiwanis Club.

He was appointed a member of the School Board in 1921, was later elected to the Board, for a term of four years, and is now serving as Chairman of the Committee on Teachers and School Work.

Brother Eberhardt was married on April 10th, 1907, to Miss Elizabeth Chester Hard, Helena, Montana. There are five children, Katharine Elizabeth, now attending school at Evanston Hospital connected with the Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., Marion Frances, Eleanor Grace, John Frederick and James Alexander.

The Grand Master is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Salt Lake, and for a number of years he has been serving as Superintendent of the Sunday School and a member of the Official Board.

Brother Eberhardt was initiated January 24, passed February 8, and raised May 2, 1913, in Wasatch Lodge No.1.

He served the lodge as Senior Steward, Senior Deacon and Senior Warden, and was Worshipful Master in 1919. He received the Capitular degrees in Utah Chapter No. 1 in 1920, and was Knighted in Utah Commandery No.1, Knights Templar, October 6, 1921. In the A. & A. S. Rite he received the degrees in Jordan Lodge of Perfection, November 23, 1925, in James Lowe Chapter, April 7:1, 1926, and completed the work at the Fall Reunion, 1926.

In Grand Lodge he was Senior Grand Deacon, 1921 and 1922, and Grand Marshal, 1923 and 1924. He was elected Junior Grand Warden in 1925, and regularly advanced until the last Annual Communication, when he was elected Grand Master.

The Craft of the Jurisdiction has every reason for anticipating a most satisfactory and successful year under the leadership of Grand Master Eberhardt.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1928.

PGM, Alexander Edwin Eberhardt died on June 2, 1962 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1963, page 61.