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  2. Patriotic Order Sons of America - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Philip H. Hoffman - Wikipedia

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    In 1905, Dover newspaper The Iron Era [18] reported that Hoffman was the vice president of Chester's Patriotic Order Sons of America. [19] That year, he contributed photographs and illustrations of historic buildings to Andrew M. Sherman's 1905 book Historic Morristown, New Jersey , although it is not stated whether he collected them or created ...

  4. Brotherhood of the Union - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Founders of a national patriotic organization honored in ...

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    James K. Helms (1841-1893) and Henry J. Stager (1842-1919), both of Schuylkill Haven, and Frederick E. Stees (1841-1905), of Pine Grove, were instrumental in the formation of the Patriotic ...

  6. List of North American fraternal orders - Wikipedia

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    Order of Shepherds of Bethlehem – Founded "in America" in Trenton, New Jersey, on November 19, 1896, by Ira A. A. Wycoff. Supposedly the group was originally introduced to America by a Sir Fred Holt who established two lodges in New York in 1875. However, after Holt was recalled to Europe because of his duties as "Grand Scribe" of the ...

  7. American Protestant Association - Wikipedia

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    Following closely, as it did, the appearance of the Order of United American Mechanics at Philadelphia in 1845, and the Patriotic Order, United Sons of America at the same city in 1847, it also became identified with the Know Nothing party campaigns of 1850 to 1856. It was related that it was to the American Protestant Association that early ...

  8. Order of the Founders and Patriots of America - Wikipedia

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    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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