From Host to Guest: George U. Harvey and the Queens Lodge Room
George U. Harvey hosted public officials as Cornucopia Lodge’s Master in 1922 and returned as an invited borough president at Rufus King Lodge in 1929. Follow the meetings, speaking engagements and lodge connections that reveal how Queens Masonic rooms also served as settings for civic life.
Brother John Anderson Leach of Advance Lodge No. 635
From his family’s Astoria nursery to Police Headquarters, John Anderson Leach built a career in law and civic service. Raised in Advance Lodge No. 635 in 1905 and later remembered as a past master, he became the trial commissioner known to generations of New York policemen as “Uncle John.”