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The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois. Moose International supports the operation of Mooseheart Child City & School , a 1,023-acre (414 ha) community for children and teens in need, located 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago; and Moosehaven, a 63-acre (25 ha ...
Mooseheart, located in Kane County, Illinois, is an unincorporated community and a home for children administered by the Loyal Order of Moose.Also known as The Child City, the community is featured as a 1949 episode of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's short film series Passing Parade, which was written and narrated by John Nesbitt. [1]
The order also "declined to recruit" from people living along the Atlantic Coast from Virginia to Texas, Cook County, Illinois, the area south of Centralia, Illinois, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York City, San Francisco, Sacramento and any other city with a population higher than 200,000. It had 3,000 members in the late 1890s.
Loyal Order of Moose; Military Order of the Serpent; National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry; National Haymakers' Association; Native Sons of the Golden West; Omicron Epsilon Pi, non-collegiac lesbians and lesbians of color; Order of Alhambra; Order of Heptasophs; Order of Owls; Order of Scottish Clans; Order Sons of Italy in America
Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.) is a fraternal organization that was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington, by a group of six theater-owners including John Cort (the first president), brothers John W. and Tim J. Considine, Harry (H.L.) Leavitt (who later joined the Loyal Order of Moose), Mose Goldsmith and Arthur Williams. [1]
A fraternal order is a voluntary membership group organised as an order, with an initiation ritual and traits alluding to religious, chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or secret societies. Fraternal orders typically have secular purposes, serving as social clubs, cultural organizations and providing a form of social welfare through ...
The order had 453 members in 7 lodges in 1856, and 928 in 10 lodges in 1863, all within the state of New York. The first lodge outside of New York was Benjamin #15 in Philadelphia, on July 30, 1865. In 1899 the Order had 15,000 members in 104 lodges spread across 21 states. [73] In 1923 the order had 6,645 members in 78 lodges. [75]
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