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Samuel Crocker Lawrence

A bust of Samuel Lawrence in the Samuel Crocker Lawrence Library of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. (right)

Samuel Crocker Lawrence was initiated into Hiram Lodge in West Cambridge (now Arlington), Massachusetts, in 1854. A Civil War general, Lawrence became president of the Eastern Railroad Company in 1875 and served as the first mayor of the city of Medford, Massachusetts, from 1892 to 1894. An active Freemason, Lawrence bequeathed his extensive Masonic library to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts when he died in 1911. Today, the Grand Lodge Library is named in his honor.