Earl Moses VanLone was born in 1890 and died in 1967. He was a prominent Beloit banker, churchman, civic leader and Free Mason.

His family moved to Beloit in 1894, where he attended grade school, high school and Beloit College. His first experience in banking was as a staff member of the Hyde and Brittan Bank. While attending Beloit College he worked as a janitor for the Beloit Savings Bank, where he became a clerk in 1910.

In 1923 he received a certificate from the American Institute of Banking and completed graduate studies at Rutgers University in 1937.

In 1913 he married Ina Barnum and they had two children, a daughter Marion and a son Kenneth. Mrs. VanLone died in 1962 and then Earl married his sister-in-law Lela Barnum in 1964. She died in 1989.

He spent practically all of his adult life with the Beloit Savings Bank, working his way up from janitor to bank president in 1955 and chairman of the Board in 1962. He was instrumental in developing the school Savings Program in the Beloit School System from 1882 into the 1960s.

At the time of his death in 1967, he was the oldest living president of the Wisconsin State Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. He had been the second president in 1917 and an active member for over fifty years.

Active in most community services, he was a charter member of the Beloit Lions Club and served as secretary and treasurer for many years during his forty-five-year membership. He spent many hours each year helping prepare ice skating rinks, one of the Lions’ first club projects.

He was president of the Community Chest in the 1930s, treasurer of the Civic Music Association, Beloit Council of Churches and served as treasurer for the Citizens Drive which raised money to purchase Big Hill Park. He was a member of the Ambassadors Club and of the Greater Beloit Association of Commerce.

He was church treasurer and trustee for more than 18 years at Second Congregational Church. He also served for three terms as Church Moderator and twenty-five years as a member of the choir. His interest in music also extended to the Masonic Acacia Chorus and the YMCA male chorus. He served as Chairman of the Building Committee of the church and for the Masonic Temple after the disastrous fire in 1951.

In the Masonic Fraternity, Earl was active for many years. He became a Master Mason in Morning Star Lodge No. 10 in 1922 and served as a trustee from 1954 to 1965. He was exalted in Beloit Chapter No. 9, Royal Arch Mason in 1943 and served the Most Excellent Master Degree on November 25, 1944. He was commandant of the Drill Team from 1951 to 1965 and won many honors for the Drill Team while under his command.

He was created a Sovereign Grand Inspector General 33° Honorary Member of the Supreme Council in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 18, 1960, the highest honor of Free Masonry. He was also a member of Zar Temple of the Shrine and member of the Diker of the Eastern Star, Phoenix Chapter #215, serving as a Worthy Patron in 1940 and as Watchman of the Shepherds of White Shrine of Jerusalem in 1943.