Most Worshipful Brother Newell Beeman Dayton

Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah 1949.

Brother Newell Beeman Dayton, the seventy-fourth Grand Master of the M:.W:.Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Utah, was born in Salt Lake City June 28, 1900, where he has made his home throughout his entire life.

He received his education in the elementary and high schools of Salt Lake City and the University of Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1922. He is a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and Friars Senior Society.

On January 15, 1923, he married Miss Margaret Emma Brown and they have two charming daughters, Margaret and Joan.

During the year 1923 he entered the employ of the Tracy Loan and Trust Company, now the Tracy-Collins Trust Company and has continued with that Company to the present. He is now Vice President and Director.

In civic affairs he has been very active. He served as a member of the Board of Education of Salt Lake City; President of the Sons of the American Revolution; President of the Salt Lake Rotary Club; Officer and Director of the Alta Club; Officer and Director of the Salt Lake Country Club and Officer and Director of the Salt Lake Community Chest.

He became a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge No.2, F. & A. M. by initiation April 4, 1927 and was installed Worshipful Master of that Lodge December 18, 1933.

He became a member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Utah Consistory, in the Fifty-first Reunion of April 16-19, 1928; was ad-vanced to the rank and decoration of Knight Commander of the Court of Honor October 19, 1937; invested with the Thirty-third degree, Inspectors General Honorary, October 19, 1943 and elected Commander of Salt Lake Council of Kadosh June 17, 1943.

In the American (York) Rite of Freemasonry he was Exalted to the degree of Royal Arch October 13, 1943 in Salt Lake Chapter; Greeted October 6, 1943 in Utah Council No. 1 and Knighted March 29,1944 in Utah Commandery No.1, K. T.

He was Created a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in EI Kalah Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S. March 21, 1930 and elected Illustrious Potentate of El Kalah Temple January 13, 1943. He has served as a Representative of the Imperial Council of the Shrine and as Treasurer of the Intermountain Unit of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children during the past six years.

In Grand Lodge he served on the War Service Committee during the years 1943 to 1945, inclusive and was Chairman of that Committee during the year 1945.

At the conclusion of his term as Grand Master he will have served seven years as a Grand Lodge Officer, in the following order:

January 26,1943 Grand Chaplain
January 25, 1944 Grand Chaplain
January 23, 1945 Grand Chaplain
January 29, 1946 Junior Grand Warden
January 28, 1947 Senior Grand Warden
January 27, 1948 Deputy Grand Master
January 25,1949 Grand Master

With these many achievements in both Civil and Masonic affairs, we are assured that he is well qualified and will perform the duties of Grand Master in a manner that will receive the approbation of all concerned.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1949.

PGM, Newell Beeman Dayton died on Feb. 22, 1987 in Tucson, Arizona.