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The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868, originally as a social club in New York City. It has more than 750,000+ members at 1,928 lodges. The fraternity currently focuses on Community, Friendship, and Charity.
The order was organized during World War I by a group of female relatives of the Elks who met to wrap bandages to send to wounded soldiers overseas. [2] The group eventually decided to turn their circle into a regular club and was chartered in the State of Rhode Island on April 27, 1926. [3]
Summit NJ Elks Lodge No. 1246 Host of Mad Money on CNBC: Walter Cronkite: Broadcast journalist and anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years Andy Devine: San Fernando CA Elks Lodge No. 1539 Actor Jack Elam: Ashland OR Lodge No. 944 Actor Rich Hall: Livingston MT Lodge No. 246 Comedian, writer, documentary maker, and musician Bill Hughes
Memorial contributions can be made in Skip’s name to "The Skip Salome Family & Friends Christmas Day Dinner Fund," c/o Park National Bank, 50 N. 3rd St., Newark, OH 43055, or The Ohio Quarter ...
The Stella Hotel & Ballroom, formerly the Kenosha Elks Club, in 2022. The City of Kenosha issued a raze order on December 23, 2011, at which point a group calling themselves "Preserve the Elks" [8] formed to save the building from demolition. On March 22, 2012, Kenosha's Historic Preservation Committee voted 4–1 to delay the vote on ...
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The Philadelphia Lodge No. 2 BPOE, also known as the Philadelphia Athletic Club, was a historic American Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) lodge that occupied 306-320 North Broad Street in the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City Philadelphia.
The first local group or "Temple" of the Daughters of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World was founded as the Norfolk Temple No. 1 in Norfolk, Virginia by Emma V. Kelley. [3] The first public meeting was held in July 1903 at the St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church with forty participants. Kelley organized the ...