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The Order of the Eastern Star (OES) is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris , a noted Freemason, and adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873.
The society was founded in 1867, derived from a pre-existing Rosicrucian 'non-Masonic' order in Scotland (which bore no relation to the similarly named Societas Rosicruciana in Scotia, which was a later creation), following the admission of William James Hughan and Robert Wentworth Little. [10]
Irwin Belk (1922–2018), CEO of Belk, a national department store chain. Under his leadership, Belk Inc. became the largest, privately owned department store chain in the United States. [109] Belk served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1959 to 1962 and the North Carolina Senate from 1963 to 1966.
Robert Morris, Poet Laureate of Freemasonry and founder of the Order of the Eastern Star [322] Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera , Colombian president and general [ 6 ] Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960), GCB , GCVO , GCStJ member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended ...
Today it is open to women 18 and older who are related by birth or marriage to a Shriner, Master Mason, or Daughter of the Nile, or is a majority member in Good Standing of a Masonic-related organization for girls; or who was a patient, with or without Shrine or Masonic relationship, at a Shriners Hospital for Children. [17]
Pond, Annie M. 1950. Interesting Historical Data. Order of the Eastern Star, Order of the Eastern Star, New York, NY. Order of the Eastern Star of the State of New York. Robertson, J. Ross. (1899). The History of Freemasonry in Canada From Its Introduction in 1749.Vol. II. Toronto, Canada. The Hunter Rose Co. Rosenburg, Charles E. 1987.