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Subsequent breakaways from the parent Order and from this new Order resulted in the formation of further Orders of Odd Fellows. In the case of the parent Order, various lodges seceded in 1832 to found the Ancient & Noble (Bolton Unity) which subsequently dissolved in 1962, and in the case of the New Order, the Nottingham Odd Fellows.
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 ...
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Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World; Improved Order of Heptasophs; Independent Order of Odd Fellows (aka Odd Fellows) Independent Order of St. Luke; International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor; Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America; Household of Ruth; Improved Order of Red Men
While predominantly black, the order had white members. There was evidence that the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows had something to do with its founding. [23] United Knights and Daughters of America - Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Reportedly had many members in the Midwest. Attempts to contact the order in 1923 were unsuccessful. [24]
It was used for many years as both a church (by multiple denominations) and the local Masonic lodge. By the late 1920s it had been abandoned by all of these users, and was acquired in 1932 by the local chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), which used it as its lodge. [28] The IOOF chapter deeded the building to the city in 2005.
Other Englishmen who were Odd Fellows had grouped in the states along the Eastern Seaboard, and Wildey gathered them all into the newly formed fraternity. He traveled widely to set up lodges in the most recently settled parts of the country. At the time of his death in 1861, there were more than 200,000 members of the IOOF.
Odd Fellows Mansion, Copenhagen, Denmark (Independent Order of Odd Fellows). This is a list of notable Odd Fellows buildings, sometimes called "Odd Fellows Hall", "Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building", "IOOF