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Joseph Cullen Root Original home-office building in Rock Island. Modern Woodmen of America was founded by Joseph Cullen Root on January 5, 1883, in Lyons, Iowa. [2] He had operated a number of businesses, including a mercantile establishment, a grain elevator and two flour mills, sold insurance and real estate, taught bookkeeping classes, managed a lecture bureau, and practiced law. [3]
Modern Woodmen of America; Mystic Workers of the World – Incorporated in 1892 in Illinois. [236] (Other sources say February 1896 [237]) Founder was C. W. Clendenen of Fulton, Illinois who was a Mason, Pythian, Maccabee and a member of both the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America. Membership is open to men and women men and ...
Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal benefit society founded in 1883, has opened an office in Lake Township to better serve clients in the region. Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal benefit ...
The Woodmen of the World had a female auxiliary called the Woodmen Circles from the early 1890s. Its local units were called local "Groves" and they were governed by a "Supreme Forest", subject to the Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World. [9] The Circle eventually reached 130,000 members, but it was absorbed by the Woodmen in 1965. [10]
King was a Mason, a past master, trustee, and treasurer of Osceola Lodge No. 65, A.F. and A.M., and was a member of Modern Woodmen of America. [11] [10] King died suddenly of an apoplectic stroke at his home, April 22, 1921, at age 66. [4] Memorial services were held in the Osceola Auditorium.
Royal Neighbors of America - originally the auxiliary of the Modern Woodmen of America, before it became its own group. [47] Woodmen Circle - a former auxiliary of the Woodmen of the World, this group merged with Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society in 1965. [48] Woodman Rangers and Rangerettes - founded in 1903, open to boys and girls ...
Assured Life Association, formerly Woodmen of the World and/or Assured Life Association, having officially changed its name to on January 1, 2015, is a fraternal benefit society based in Denver, Colorado, whose beginnings can be traced to the same founder as Modern Woodmen of America and Woodmen of the World in 1890. Today, Assured Life ...
Turner was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976, succeeding Carl Bowles as a representor of the state of Kentucky. After being succeeded by Buel Guy he later started work at the Modern Woodmen of America is doing so currently along with managing and tending to his farmland.