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Fraternal Union of America – Founded in Denver on September 1, 1896, by F. F. Rose and F. A. Falkenburg. Rose was a member of a number of fraternal groups including the Mason, Heptasophs, Red Men, JOUAM, AOUW, Modern Woodmen, Pythians and Phi Delta Theta. Open to men and women. Had 5,000 members in the late 1890s.
Odd Fellows. Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans (AMOS) Daughters of Rebekah. Ladies of the Orient (LOTO) Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity. International Association of Rebekah Assemblies. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Household of Ruth.
African Blood Brotherhood. Afro-American Order of Owls. Afro-American Order of Red Men. Christian Knights and Heroines of Ethiopia of the East and West Hemispheres - This organization was incorporated in the probate court of Mobile County, Alabama, in 1915.
Fraternal order. A fraternal order is a voluntary membership group organised as an order, with an initiation ritual and traits alluding to religious, chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or secret societies. Fraternal orders typically have secular purposes, serving as social clubs, cultural organizations and providing a form of social ...
Social or general fraternities and sororities, in the North American fraternity system, are those that do not promote a particular profession, as professional fraternities do, or discipline, such as service fraternities and sororities. Instead, their primary purposes are often stated as the development of character, literary or leadership ...
Order of Druids. Order of Free Gardeners. Order of Heptasophs. Order of Knight-Masons Elect Priests of the Universe. Order of Owls. Order of Railway Conductors. Order of Saint Joachim. Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross.
Christian fraternities. While the traditional social fraternity is a well-established mainstay across the United States at institutions of higher learning, alternatives – in the form of social fraternities that require doctrinal and behavioral conformity to the Christian faith – developed in the early 20th century.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd Fellows founded in England during the 18th century, the IOOF was originally chartered by the Independent ...