Wayfarers Lodge #1001; A bit of History

Did you know...........

James F. Stiles Jr., 

Former Chairman of the Board, Vice President, Treasurer and Director of Abbott Laboratories, Chicago.  Brother Stiles was born 27 June 1892.

Brother Stiles started as an order picker in the Abbott Laboratories shipping room, where he started in 1913.  Dr. Wallace C. Abbott can lay claim to one of the most unique methods of personnel recruitment: delivering babies whom he later employed!  Brother Stiles was one of those babies.  

Brother Stiles was also President of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce from 1945 to 1947 and a Republican delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1960.

Brother Stiles was raised on 21 May 1919 at wayfarers Lodge #1001 in Evanston, Illinois.  He was also Past Sovereign of St. John's Conclave #1, the Red Cross of Constantine in Chicago.

I can not find a date of his death anywhere, but he was a Wayfarer of note and a part of our history.