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Royal Benefit Society – Founded in 1893 in New York. Founders included Freemasons, Oddfellows, Pythians, and members of the Royal Arcanum. Membership is open to men and women. Had 3,000 members in the late 1890s. Issued $250 to $3,000 certificates payable at death or the end of 10, 15, or 20 years.
Active in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. [50] Sons of Hermann; United League of America; Workmen's Benefit Fund - Founded as the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund in 1884, this organization was licensed to provide insurance in February 1899. The current name was adopted in 1939. [51]
A friendly society or benefit society is a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. These groups are also known as a fraternal benefit society, fraternal benefit order, or mutual aid organization. Following is an incomplete list of these societies and orders.
A fraternity or fraternal organization is an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood; dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members. Service clubs, lineage societies, and secret societies are among the fraternal organizations listed here.
Many fraternal benefit societies were founded to serve the needs of immigrants and other under-served groups [9] who shared common bonds of religion, ethnicity, gender, occupation or shared values. The first modern American fraternal benefit society was the Ancient Order of United Workmen, founded by John J. Upchurch in 1868. [10] "The Order of ...
Women's club buildings in New York (state) (7 P) Pages in category "Clubs and societies in New York (state)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Order of Chosen Friends was a fraternal benefit order that existed in North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The group suffered a number of splits during its lifetime, leading scholar Alan Axelrod to call it "almost a parody" of fraternal benefit societies of the time. [1]
The Slovenska Dobrodelna Zveza (Slovenian Mutual Benefit Association) was formed in Grdina's Hall on St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio on November 11, 1910. [1] It was created through the merged of several smaller Slovenian-American fraternal organizations, including the St. Barbara Society of Forest City, Pennsylvania . [ 1 ]