FREDERIC BEASLEY
VANDEGRIFT
FREDERIC BEASLEY VANDEGRIFT, son of Senator Charles
S. VANDERGRIFT, was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia, and at Smiths'
Commercial College, after which he entered the office of John W. HAMPTON, JR.,
custom house broker of Philadelphia, where he remained for eight years. He them entered
into the business himself with offices in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, and was also
import freight agent. He continued to conduct the business of a custom house broker
until his death. 1893, feeling the necessity of a technical knowledge of the law in the
transaction of his business, he entered himself as a student at law in the office of
William S. STANGER, Esq., in Philadelphia, and was admitted and was admitted to
practice in the United States courts in January, 1899, but died on March 7, 1899. Frederic
B. VANDEGRIFT made a close study of the tariff on imports and became an expert on
that subject Among the papers prepared and published by him on the subject was one on the
McKinley Tariff, and another on the Dingley Tariff. He received an order for 1,500
copies of his work on the Dingley Tariff from the United States government, a copy of
which was to be sent to every United States consul throughout the worId. He received the
prize offered by the United States government for the most perfect paper on the tariff.
Mr. VANDEGRIFT became a distinguished member of the Masonic fraternity. He was
made a Mason on March 8, 1884, by his father, Past Master Charles S. VANDEGRIFT, and
became master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, in 1888; joined Harmony Chapter, R. A. M., In
1889, and was elected king in 1899, which office he held at the time of his death. He
joined St Johns Commandery, K. T. in 1894, pad held the office of captain general at the
time of his death. He joined the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, January18, 1895, and
on June 21St received his thirty second degree, S. P. R. S. He was also a member of Lula
Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., and was representative of University Lodge in the Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania at the time of his death. On November 16. 1887, he married Harriet
Elizabeth HARVEY,
Text taken from page 33, 34 of:
Davis, William W. H., A.M., History of Bucks County,
Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III
Transcribed May 2000 by Judy Jackson of
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