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Several theories aim to explain the etymological background of the name "Odd Fellows," often rendered "Oddfellows" in British English. In the 18th century United Kingdom, major trades were organised in guilds or other forms of syndicates, but smaller trades did not have equivalent social or financial security.
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.
Not much is known about Peter Ogden's early life. The official history of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America notes that he was born in the West Indies, [3] with one source specifying the island of Jamaica. [4] Ogden was a sailor and then steward on the S.S. Patrick Henry that sailed between Liverpool and New York City. While in ...
[1] [13] Many pubs in Britain are named 'The Oddfellows' or 'Oddfellows Arms', probably because they were once meeting places of Lodges. [5] In the French Revolution, the radicals who seized control were afraid of the Oddfellows, Freemasons and the like. Membership became a criminal offence in France, and such organisations were driven ...
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 1819 a branch of Oddfellowship was introduced into the United States by Thomas Wildey, and remained an organic party of the Manchester Unity until 1843, when it became a separate organization under the name Independent Order of Odd Fellows. By that time there were only four known lodges of Odd Fellows in the United States owing allegiance to ...
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Peter Ogden (founder), a Black sailor and member of the British Grand United Order of Odd fellows helped the men to gain a charter from the British organization which did not discriminate by race forming the Philomathean Lodge, No. 646 in New York City in 1843. [3] Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America was born. The following year ...