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WALTON, Charles Wesley
WALTON, Charles Wesley. (White Oak, WI, Sept. 2, 1870--Glendale, CA, Feb. 20, 1930). Grand Master. Walton settled in Dubuque and on October 19, 1894 was acknowledged a Master Mason in Metropolitan Lodge No. 49. He was the Worshipful Master of his Lodge in 1898 and 1899 and again in 1913.
Walton was appointed Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of Iowa in 1903. He was elected Junior Guardian Warden in 1907 and at the seventy-first annual communication in Des Moines on June 9, 1914 was elected Grand Master of Iowa.