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The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was founded in Estonia when 1 Odd Fellows Lodge was founded by the Grand Lodge of Finland in 1993 and a Rebekah lodge in 1995. Finland. After the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of Sweden was established in 1895, the interest in Odd Fellowship was awakened in Finland.
Grand Lodge of Texas centrally located in Waco. The Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons is the largest of several governing bodies of Freemasonry in the State of Texas, being solely of the Ancients' tradition and descending from the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, founded on 17 June 1751 at the Turk's Head Tavern, Greek Street, Soho, London. [1]
First HQ of the Grand Lodge of South Australia of the IOOF was at 11-13 ... Polo Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 197 ... I.O.O.F. Lodge (Galveston, Texas)
It was used for many years as both a church (by multiple denominations) and the local Masonic lodge. By the late 1920s it had been abandoned by all of these users, and was acquired in 1932 by the local chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), which used it as its lodge. [28] The IOOF chapter deeded the building to the city in 2005.
In 1850, Schuyler Colfax was asked to write a Degree for women. The Rebekah Lodges were founded on 20 September 1851, when, after considerable debate, the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows voted to adopt the Rebekah Degree, largely due to the efforts of Odd Fellow Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Vice President from 1869 to 1873.
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 ...
Odd Fellows. Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans (AMOS) Daughters of Rebekah; Ladies of the Orient (LOTO) Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity; International Association of Rebekah Assemblies; Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Household of Ruth
Peter Ogden, Founder of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Peter Ogden (died 1852) was the founder of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. [1] This fraternal order was a Benefit society open to African American men and was heavily involved with the early civil rights movement. [2]