A History of Masonry in Madison County, Kentucky 1812-1913, compiled 
and written by Robert R. Burnam, 1914, p. 89.

ROBERT RODES BURNAM, the sixty third Master of Richmond Lodge No. 25,
has the distinction of being the only Master of whom it can be said that 
both his father and grandfather had filled the same station.  His father, 
Curtis F. Burnam, served the Lodge as Master twice, while his grandfather 
was the Master U. D.  Mr. Burnam was born November 17, 1858.  He was 
prepared for college at the old Seminary and entered the Freshman Class of 
Central University the year it was established in Richmond, 1874.  He 
graduated in 1878.  He then went to Yale College and spent two years in the 
Graduate School.  On returning from college he was offered and accepted a 
position in the Farmers National Bank.  This occupation, banking, has been 
his life work.  He was made a Mason July 13, 1880, passed August 10, 1880, 
raised September 14, 1880.  Was elected Secretary of his Lodge December 16, 
1880, serving two years.  He was elected Master December 26, 1886, and 
reelected just twenty years later, December 27, 1905.  Was elected Grand 
Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge October, 1907, and advanced steadily until 
October, 1910 when he was elected Grand Master.  He received the Capitular 
degrees in Richmond Chapter during the Autumn of 1880.  Was elected High 
Priest first September, 1883, again in 1896.  He was elected Grand Scribe 
of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons October, 1900, and became the 
Grand High Priest in 1902.  He was Knighted in Richmond Commandery 
December, 1881.  Was elected Eminent Commander first in 1893, and has been 
reelected four times, a record equaled by few in the history of the 
subordinate Commanderies of the State.  On the death of John Speed Smith, 
Jr., February, 1900, he was appointed by the Grand Commander, Eminent Sir 
James T. Hedges, to the station left vacant by the death of that 
distinguished Master.  When the Grand Commandery met the following May, Sir 
Burnam was elected Grand Junior Warden and advanced step by step until he 
was in 1904 at Frankfort made the Grand Commander.  Ordained as High Priest 
October, 1883.  Thus it will appear that Mr. Burnam has had all the honors 
given him possible by the York Rite bodies of his native State.  His wish 
frequently expressed is that he has to some degree, by his life, his labor 
and love for the craft, merited these distinctions.  Mr. Burnam married 
Miss Cynthia Williams, the daughter of Honorable William B. Smith, in 1886. 
Their union has been blessed with three sons and a daughter, all of whom 
are living.  It may also be noted that subject of the foregoing sketch was 
the sixth Grand Master furnished to the Grand Lodge of Kentucky by No. 25. 
Mr. Burnam has been for years an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of 
Richmond, of which his grandmother, wife of Anthony W. Rollins, was one of 
the original thirteen members.

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