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Lodge 266, Jersey City, New Jersey Lodge 168, Brooklyn, New York Pittsburgh Moose Convention, Toledo, Ohio The Moose Fraternity (formerly The Loyal Order of Moose) [4] is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois.
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 Moose International in Great Britain Association (formerly known as The Grand Lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose in Great Britain) is a fraternal service organisation. It was run by a "Grand Council" from 1926 to 2013, and since then by a "National Management Committee".
By 1923 it had 666 benefit members and 20,000 social members distributed across 20 lodges. [327] The order was governed by a supreme lodge, states were organized into Grand Lodges and locals were called Subordinate Lodges. [328] The organization's headquarters was the Iroquois Building, Buffalo, New York. Officers included a supreme secretary ...
In the early years the group had little structure above the Chapter level. In 1926, Katherine Smith, the Director of Public Employment in the Department of Labor under James J. Davis, was appointed the first "Grand Chancellor" of the Women of the Moose. Under her direction the WOM grew to 250,000 members by the time of her retirement in 1964.
By the end of the 20th century, most fraternities had been wound up except for the Freemasons and a few lodges of the Buffaloes. Many fraternities also offered insurance to their members and as membership declined, these operations were either combined with other non profit insurance companies or sold with the proceeds being distributed to ...
Sons of Light Grand Lodge, California and Oregon [35] [36] United States California St. Anthony Grand Lodge of California of Oakland and Los Angeles [37] [38] United States Colorado Grand Lodge of Colorado [10] [39] 1861 131 9,600 [13] CGMNA: United States Colorado Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah [10] [40] 17 [21] 833 ...
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] In the late 1960s and 1979 the Order's membership was reported as 10,000, though the number of lodges fell from 46 to 42 during the same period. [76] The Free Sons had 8,000 members in 1994. [77]