Most Worshipful Brother Leroy A. McGee

Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah 1923.

The forty-ninth Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Utah, Brother LeRoy Aylmer McGee, like his immediate predecessor, is a native of Illinois. He was born at Macon, in that state, June 26, 1877. His school work was done, for the most part, in the county schools, till he entered Bushnell Normal College, later going to the Northern Indiana Normal University, at Valparaiso. Then followed experience teaching, in Illinois and Iowa, and three years in the Government service as Indian teacher and agency clerk, at Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, and Green Bay Reservation, Wisconsin.

Brother McGee was then transferred to a clerical position in the Treasury Department, Washington. Availing himself of the opportunity afforded by this position he entered the George Washington University, and three years later graduated with the degree of L. L. B.

Almost immediately after completing his legal studies, he entered Government service as P. O. Inspector, with assignment to the St. Louis Division, with work in Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa. In this work he remained four years, in the meantime being admitted to the Missouri bar. In the fall of 1910, he having resigned his position with the Government, he began the practice of law in Salt Lake City. Not yet, however, was he ready to break entirely with the Government Service, and 1912 saw him at work again as P. O. Inspector, his territory being Utah and Colorado. This work he continued till 1915, when he opened offices and began the practice of law in Price and there he has remained to the present time.

Brother McGee was married in December, 1898, to Miss Laura Biggerstaff. One child, a daughter, has come to brighten the home. He has dabbled a little in politics, and has served Price one year as Mayor.

The new Grand Master was made a Mason in Shawano Lodge No. 170, A. F. & A. M. Shawano, Wisconsin, in 1903, dimitted to Wasatch Lodge No.1, F. & A. M., Salt Lake, later becoming a charter member of Acacia Lodge No. 17, F. & A. M., Salt Lake. When he began the practice of his profession in Price, he dimitted to Carbon Lodge No. 16, F. & A. M., of that place. He is also a member of Price Chapter No. 6, R. A. M., Salt Lake Council, Charles Fred Jennings Commandery, K. T., under dispensation, Utah Consistory No. 1 and of EI Kalah Temple, Mystic Shrine. He also holds membership in Lynds Chapter No.5, O. E. S., and is a Past Worthy Grand Patron of Utah.

With training and experience such as indicated above, the Craft of Utah is surely justified in anticipating a most successful administration under Brother McGee's direction.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1923.

PGM, LeRoy Aylmer McGee died on February 26, 1936 in San Francisco, California. Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1937, page 80.

Electronically Transcribed as written without corrections to grammar or spelling by Aaron E. Saathoff, P.M., February, 2005.