M.W. Samuel Alfred Moyle 1933
Samuel Alfred Moyle
Samuel Alfred Moyle was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 7 August 1876.
He was graduated at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in the Class of 1898 and was a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity.
Entering the field of insurance, he became an insurance broker in Trenton, New Jersey; New York City; Cincinnati, Ohio; Boston, Massachusetts; Saginaw, Michigan; and New Haven, Connecticut. He was the manager of the office of the Fidelity Insurance Company of New Haven for many years until he retired in 1947.
In the Connecticut National Guard where he was a member of Company F (New Haven Grays), 2nd Regiment, he rose to the rank of Captain and Adjutant in 1917-1921. He was later, 1938-1940, a member of the 2nd Company, Governor's Foot Guard.
Brother Moyle was from 1927 to 1940 President of the Automobile Club of New Haven County; a Director of the Automobile Association of America; and a member of the Branford Board of Education (1931-1934).
He was Junior Warden of Grace Episcopal Church in Branford and later a member of St. Bartholomew's Church of St. Petersburg, Florida where he resided from 1947 until he returned to Connecticut in 1960 to enter the Masonic Home and Hospital. He remained an active Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church throughout his lifetime.
Brother Moyle's Masonic record is an impressive one. He was raised in Trenton Lodge, Trenton, New Jersey on 3 February 1902, and dimitted to affiliate with Hiram Lodge No.1 in New Haven in 1903, where he was elected Worshipful Master in 1918. He served the Grand Lodge of Connecticut in 1919, 1920 and 1921 as District Deputy for the Fourth Masonic District where he founded the first of our Masters', Wardens', and Secretaries' Blue Lodge Councils. He was appointed to office in the Grand Lodge in 1926 and was installed as Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in Connecticut in February 1933. Other Masonic honors included his coronation as an Honorary 33° Scottish Rite 1942, the award of the Pierpont Edwards Medal in Bronze by the Grand Lodge of Connecticut in 1940, and the receipt of the 50-year Gold Membership Button in 1952. From 1946 he held membership in both Hiram Lodge No. 1 and Widow's Son Lodge No. 66.
M.W. Brother Moyle was a member of the Board of Managers of the Masonic Home from 1936 to 1943 and his latter years were happily spent in the Home he had so well served.
His death on 31 May 1964 brought to a conclusion a long life of service to his Country, his Church and his beloved Fraternity. He is survived by a son, William D. Moyle; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Champeau; two grandsons; and three great grandchildren.
Bro. Samuel Moyle loved people and was an active worker with people in all phases of his life. A.H.R.
