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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]
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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 ...
The Cedar Falls Independent Order of Odd Fellows Temple, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, also known as Odd Fellows Temple or 4th and Main Building, is an Independent Order of Odd Fellows building that was built during 1901–02. It is a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-story building on a 46 feet (14 m) by 132 feet (40 m) base.
Odd Fellows Lodge (Bel Air, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland; Odd Fellows Lodge and Temple, listed on the NRHP in New York; IOOF Lodge (Thompson Falls, Montana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Sanders County, Montana; Odd Fellows Lodge (Goldsboro, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
Odd Fellows from that time include John Wilkes (1725–1797) and Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet of Thornton (1726–1784), advocating civil liberties and reliefs, including Catholic emancipation. Political repressions , such as the Unlawful Oaths Act (1797) and the Unlawful Societies Act (1799), [ 4 ] resulted in neutral amalgamation of the ...
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 ...