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The Patriotic Order Sons of America is an American patriotic fraternal organization that traces its origins to the anti-alien riots of the 1840s. Founded in 1847 in Philadelphia, [1] the P.O.S. of A. once had "camps" (chapters) in well over 20 states. At its peak, there were more than 800 Camps in Pennsylvania alone.
The Brotherhood flourished principally in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. [1] Its membership was given as about 25,000 in 1907. While the Brotherhood was similar to the Order of United American Mechanics and the Patriotic Order Sons of America, [2] it was the "premier nonpolitical land-reform organization of the 1850s". [3]
The first Governor General of the Order was Frederick Dent Grant, the first son of General and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant. The first annual banquet of the Order was held on February 2, 1897, in the Hotel Manhattan in New York City with over 200 members and guests in attendance, as reported in the New York ...
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However, by the mid-1990s the order was open to men and women of all races. [288] In 1923 there were 14,661 benefit members in 189 locals in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri. [289] From 1974 to 1979 it had a steady membership of 7,000. [290] In 1994 it had 6,200. [291]
The "Junior American Protestant Association", modelled probably after the original "junior order," that of the Sons of America, was founded in 1864, and like the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, afterwards declared its independence of the parent society, even going so far as to change its name, in 1890, to "Loyal Knights of America ...
A fraternity or fraternal organization is an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood; dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members.
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