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The Knights of Honor (K. of H.), was a fraternal order and secret society in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Knights were one of the most successful fraternal beneficiary societies of its time.
Founders also included members of the AOUW and the Knights of Honor. The original name was simply Knights of the Golden Rule. The order was open to white men and women 18 to 55. There were 3,000 members in the late 1890s. Local groups were called Castles, state organizations were grand chapters, and the overall organization was the supreme ...
The Knights and Ladies of Honor originated as a splinter group of the Knights of Honor, a fraternal secret society founded in 1873.In 1875, the Knights of Honor created an auxiliary, the Degree of Protection, open to wives, mothers, widows and unmarried daughters and sisters of members of the Knights of Honor, as well as male members of the parent order.
Knights and Ladies of Honor; Knights of Honor; Knights of Liberty (vigilante group) Knights of Pythias; Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia; Knights of Reciprocity; Knights of the Ancient Order of the Mystic Chain; Knights of the Forest; Knights of the Globe; Knights of the Golden Circle ...
Colored Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Honor - Founded in Franklin, Kentucky, in 1886 as a social and mutual benefit society. Listed in the 1890 census. Extinct by 1923. [3] [4] Colored Consolidated Brotherhood - a mutual benefit society headquartered at Atlanta, Texas. Listed in the 1890 census [5] [6]
A friendly society or benefit society is a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. These groups are also known as a fraternal benefit society, fraternal benefit order, or mutual aid organization. Following is an incomplete list of these societies and orders.
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Within a year the Knights of Jericho reorganized as the Good Templars, an order that was open to both sexes and worked only one degree. [5] Grand United Order of True Reformers – Founded in 1873 in Alabama and Kentucky, as an African-American fraternal society focused on pro-temperance, White-led by the Independent Order of Good Templars. [6]