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Odd Fellows (or Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship [1]) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first known lodge was called Loyal Aristarcus Lodge No. 9, suggesting there were earlier ones in the 18th century.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was established in Cuba when Porvenir Lodge no.1 was instituted in Havana on August 26, 1883. More lodges were then instituted the following years. [31] In 2012 there were about 116 Odd Fellows Lodges, 50 Rebekahs Lodges, 33 Encampments, 12 cantons and 2 Junior Lodges, totaling to about 15,000 members in ...
Lodge No. 298 Odd Fellows’ members, and the Lizzie Rebekahs, the organization’s female counterpart to the men’s fraternal club, left pieces of their history behind in meeting logs and minute ...
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Other Englishmen who were Odd Fellows had grouped in the states along the Eastern Seaboard, and Wildey gathered them all into the newly formed fraternity. He traveled widely to set up lodges in the most recently settled parts of the country. At the time of his death in 1861, there were more than 200,000 members of the IOOF.
The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, American Jurisdiction is a jurisdiction of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows in the United States, Jamaica, Canada, South America, and other locations. Since its founding in 1843, its membership has principally included African Americans , due to their being discriminated against in most other fraternal ...
The Household of Ruth is an auxiliary body of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America open to both Odd Fellows and related women. [1] [2] The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America is the historically African American organization that was formed in 1843 by Peter Ogden.