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  2. Odd Fellows - Wikipedia

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    Odd Fellows (often incorrectly written as Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship [1]) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first known lodge was called Loyal Aristarcus Lodge No. 9, suggesting there were earlier ones in the 18th century.

  3. Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Wikipedia

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    Odd Fellows lodges were first documented in 1730 in England from which many organizations emerged. While several unofficial Odd Fellows lodges had existed in New York City sometime in the period 1806 to 1818, the American Odd Fellows is regarded as being founded with Washington Lodge No 1 in Baltimore at the Seven Stars Tavern on April 26, 1819, by Thomas Wildey along with some associates who ...

  4. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America - Wikipedia

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    In 1810 a group split from the Order and became the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity. [3] In 1819 a branch of Oddfellowship was introduced into the United States by Thomas Wildey, and remained an organic party of the Manchester Unity until 1843, when it became a separate organization under the name Independent Order of Odd ...

  5. What's going on at the historic Odd Fellows Building in ... - AOL

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    Lodge No. 298 Odd Fellows’ members, and the Lizzie Rebekahs, the organization’s female counterpart to the men’s fraternal club, left pieces of their history behind in meeting logs and minute ...

  6. Household of Ruth - Wikipedia

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    The Household of Ruth is an auxiliary body of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America open to both Odd Fellows and related women. [1] [2] The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America is the historically African American organization that was formed in 1843 by Peter Ogden.

  7. List of Odd Fellows buildings - Wikipedia

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    Odd Fellows Home (Gainesville, Florida) 1893 built Gainesville, Florida "Odd Fellows Home was built in 1893 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. It was subsequently used as a girls school and as the city hospital. In 1914 it became a rest home for aged Odd Fellows and an orphanage. The home was closed in 1966." [15]

  8. International Association of Rebekah Assemblies - Wikipedia

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    In 1850, Schuyler Colfax was asked to write a Degree for women. The Rebekah Lodges were founded on 20 September 1851, when, after considerable debate, the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows voted to adopt the Rebekah Degree, largely due to the efforts of Odd Fellow Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Vice President from 1869 to 1873.

  9. Enterprise I.O.O.F. Hall - Wikipedia

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    The building served as a meeting hall for Enterprise's chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. [1] The building was deemed significant for having served as a social center for the community and as "a symbol of the importance [IOOF lodges] once had in the welfare of the community before social service aid was available." [1] [2]