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Th e Hands of the Workman
Reid Gardiner
Grand Secretary Emeritus, Editor

Carl L. Brattin
Grand Master 1930-1931

Carl L. Brattin was born on 16 March 1887 Th e same year, he served as Grand Master;
in Hastings, Michigan. He graduated from his wife served as Worthy Grand Matron of
high school in Nashville, Michigan, in 1905; the Grand Chapter of Montana's Eastern Star.
he attended Mount Pleasant Normal School a
taught for two years. In 1910, and graduated He was a member of the York Rite,
LL.B from the University of Michigan. He Yellowstone Chapter No. 5, and created a
relocated to Montana in 1910. Knight Templar in Damascus Commandery
No. 4.
Carl Brattin was admitted to the Bar on
coming from Michigan to Montana by the In 1916, he crossed the hot sands in Algeria
Supreme Court of Montana on 11 October Temple and on the organization of Al Beedo
1910 and was associated with the then County Temple affi liated and served on the Divan.
Attorney of Dawson County Frank P. Leiper
at Glendive. Carl Brattin was an active member of the
Sidney Methodist Episcopal Church.
Brattin opened his law practice in Sidney on 6 March
1911. In 1914, he served as Assistant County Attorney. M. W. Brother Brattin died on 8 May 1963 and was
He served as Richland County Attorney for eight years. buried at the Sidney Cemetery at Sidney, Montana.
Brattin commenced his practice of the law in partnership
in Sidney from 1920 to 1923. He associated with L. V.
Ketter and formed the law offi ce of Brattin & Ketter.

C. L. Brattin was one of the Sidney National Bank
founders and was a Stockholder and Director serving from
the founding date 8 December 1916 into the 1960s.

Carl Brattin was a Montana Delegate to the 1924 and
1928 Republican National Convention.

Brattin was also a member of the Kiwanis Club in Sidney
and fi rst president and later held the offi ce of District
Governor in 1932.
Beginning in 1938, he served on the Advisory Board for
Shodair Hospital for Children in Helena.
In January 1947, Carl Brattin associated with Otto T.
Habedank and retired from activity in the fi rm in February
1958.

Brother Brattin received his Masonic degrees in Lower
Yellowstone Lodge No. 90 at Sidney, Montana. He was
raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason on 13
August 1913 and served as Worshipful Master in 1921.

Aft er Brother Brattin served on several appointed offi ces
in the Grand Lodge line and was elected Junior Grand
Warden in 1927, in 1930, he was elected as Most Worshipful
Grand Master of Masons in Montana.

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