CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE GRAND LODGE

Ethelbert F. Allen was a native of Connecticut. After graduating at Hartford I-ligh School, he moved to" Kansas City and engaged in the real estate and investment business, and became prominently identified with many of the successful enterprises of the city. He was made a Mason in Heroine Lodge No. 104 in 1884, and served as its Master in 1887 and 1888. He was elected GrandMaster· of Missouri Fr,eemasons in 1898. He was elected President of the Home in 1907 and remained such to the day of his death, August 26, 1913. He assisted in organizing Ararat Temple, serving as its first potentate. In JtIne, 1888, he was chosen Imperial Potentate of the United States.

"When Judge Givan was called from labor there "Vvere sante among us who feared that his successor could hardly meet in equal·1}leasure the delicate and important. responsibilities of that high office. But Bro. Allen proved to be the providential man to take the place of his illustrious predecessor and lead the work forward to still larger success. The new hospital· at the Home is his .;rnonument and·his busy brain was working out other plans for the success of the Home when the hand of disease was laid upon him."

Solomon Ephraim Waggoner was born in Richland County, Ohio, March 8th, 1851. He isa graduate of Oscalaasa College, Iowa. After graduating, he went West and had charge of the Western Union lines along the Union Pacific then being built to Fort Granger. In 1870, he came to Missouri and ~ade Macon his home, and soon became engaged in the fire· insurance business as special agent, adjuster, secretary and in 1895, manager of the Citizens Insurance·C·ompany of St. Louis, and in I899,its·president.

He was made a Mason in old Macon Lodge No. 106, in 1872, succeeded by Censer ~"odge No. 173, ,of which he was Master in 1876. He was· Knighted in. Emanuel.· Commandery No.7 at Macon in June, 1873, and served as its CoIUmander in 1877 and 1878. In May, 1880,he was elected ---390-