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The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois. Moose International supports the operation of Mooseheart Child City & School , a 1,023-acre (414 ha) community for children and teens in need, located 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago; and Moosehaven, a 63-acre (25 ha ...
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]
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 ...
The Women of the Moose are the female auxiliary of the Loyal Order of Moose. [1] Like the rest of the Order, membership originally operated by racial discrimination and was historically open to only white women; it has since been integrated. [citation needed] The WOTM works four degrees.
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 ...
Despite the ban on auxiliaries the creation of this youth group was approved by the Grand Lodge session of 1927, though it had been operating at the local level in San Francisco since 1922. After the membership declined during World War II, the Grand Lodge deleted all reference to the Antlers in its Constitution and Statutes. [4] [5]
The Moose Organization is open to every person regardless of race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or gender. Moose Organizations do not discriminate against anyone who is of good character. Applicants must have a sponsor. 2600:1702:4870:7CD0:823C:C7BA:746F:6505 00:04, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in United States. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).