Famous New Jersey Mason
Russell Aubrey (Lena) Blackburne
(1886-1968)

Major League Baseball Player, American League, 1910-1929, playing with the Chicago White Sox, with a lifetime batting average of . .214. Originator in 1938 of Blackburne's "Delaware River Baseball Mud", still used to prepare balls for play in both American and the National Leagues.

Lodge: not known, but he participated in an "all Masonic baseball game" sponsored by Trenton Forest No. 5, T.C.L., October 12, 1935
Residence: Palmyra