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Odd Fellows lodges were first documented in 1730 in England from which many organizations emerged. While several unofficial Odd Fellows lodges had existed in New York City sometime in the period 1806 to 1818, the American Odd Fellows is regarded as being founded with Washington Lodge No 1 in Baltimore at the Seven Stars Tavern on April 26, 1819, by Thomas Wildey along with some associates who ...
Odd Fellows Hall (Santa Ana, California) 1906: 1983 309-311 N. Main St. ... Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F) Monitor Lodge No. 747 Casey, Illinois:
In 1850, Schuyler Colfax was asked to write a Degree for women. The Rebekah Lodges were founded on 20 September 1851, when, after considerable debate, the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows voted to adopt the Rebekah Degree, largely due to the efforts of Odd Fellow Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Vice President from 1869 to 1873.
The American-based Independent Order of Odd Fellows enrolls some 600,000 members divided into approximately 10,000 lodges in thirty countries, [8] [9] and is interfraternally recognised by the British-based Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity. [10]
Odd Fellows Hall, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building, IOOF Building, Odd Fellows Lodge and similar terms are phrases used to refer to buildings that house chapters of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows fraternal organization. More specifically, these terms may refer to:
Santa Cruz County Court House: 1904 Nogales, Arizona: ... Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge #284 1916 El Paso, Texas Demolished, year unk: Henry C. Trost
In 1810 a group split from the Order and became the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity. [3] 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 ...
Thomas Wildey (1782–1861) was an Englishman who was the founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) in North America. Biography