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The Harponian Lodge is regarded as the first Buffalo Lodge, formed in 1822 by actors and stagehands denied membership in the City of Lushington. The date of closure of that first Buffalo Lodge is unknown. From the outset the Buffalo Society existed for social convivial enjoyment and for benevolent purposes.
By 1923 it had 666 benefit members and 20,000 social members distributed across 20 lodges. [327] The order was governed by a supreme lodge, states were organized into Grand Lodges and locals were called Subordinate Lodges. [328] The organization's headquarters was the Iroquois Building, Buffalo, New York. Officers included a supreme secretary ...
The Albion Order of Oddfellows was formed from the Manchester Unity in 1831. Several other secessions then occurred to form the Nottingham Independent Order, the Derby Midland Order, the Ilkison Unity [Ilkeston?] and the Norfolk and Norwich Unity. The Kent Unity was formed in 1805; its first Lodge, however, was not formed until 1861. [11]
Built originally as a one-room school with a Lodge upstairs; a new school was built in 1925, and the Board of Education sold the building to Lodge #329, and the bottom floor (school room) was converted into a country store. The Lodge closed in 1945, when it consolidated with Middlebourne Lodge #69.
By the end of the 20th century, most fraternities had been wound up except for the Freemasons and a few lodges of the Buffaloes. Many fraternities also offered insurance to their members and as membership declined, these operations were either combined with other non profit insurance companies or sold with the proceeds being distributed to ...
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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.