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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]
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 ...
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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 ...
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