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The Ludington Record
Thursday, March 20, 1884

              WM. McDOWELL, who died in this place on Tuesday,
            March 11, at the age of 104 years, was the oldest
            mason in the world. He was made a mason in lodge
            298, Ballymaney, county of Antrim, Ireland, on the
            23d of June, 1807. He was a Royal Arch Mason, Knight
            Templar, and Knight of Malt*, Ark and Mark degrees,
            and Priest, Lord and Knight of the Cross. He was a
            master in 1828, resigning that year to imigrate to
            Canada. We gather the above facts from the Hamilton,
            Ont., Spectator, of several years ago. About the
            time of the publication above referred to, an effort
            was made by masons throughout the world the then 
            oldest living mason, and Mr. McDOWELL was finally
            declared authoritatively to be the oldest mason in
            the entire world. - Grand Traverse Herald.
            
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