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Odd Fellows (or 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.
In 1933, 26,000 bodies from the Oddfellows Cemetery in San Francisco were moved here. San Francisco had previously passed an ordinance to prohibit the sale of cemetery lots or permit any further burials within the city. Odd Fellows Cemetery (Sonora, California) 1856: Sonora, California: Currently reported in disrepair. [32] Odd Fellows Rest ...
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was established in Cuba when Porvenir Lodge no.1 was instituted in Havana on August 26, 1883. More lodges were then instituted the following years. [31] In 2012 there were about 116 Odd Fellows Lodges, 50 Rebekahs Lodges, 33 Encampments, 12 cantons and 2 Junior Lodges, totaling to about 15,000 members in ...
In 1933, the 26,000 buried at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco were moved to Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Portions of the Odd Fellows Cemetery became the Rossi Playground, through W.P.A. labor. [1] A five-acre tract of land was retained for the columbarium and memorial park. [1]
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 ...
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building is a historic building in San Diego, California. Built in 1882, the Odd Fellows Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located at 526 Market Street, within the historic Gaslamp Quarter .
AOUW group in front of an Odd Fellows Hall building in San Francisco. The organization prospered and by 1885 the Order was the largest fraternal benefit group in the United States. By this point many other groups had imitated the fraternal insurance concept.
The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, American Jurisdiction is a jurisdiction of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows in the United States, Jamaica, Canada, South America, and other locations. Since its founding in 1843, its membership has principally included African Americans , due to their being discriminated against in most other fraternal ...