Odd Fellows
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Odd Fellows Building
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Edited Library of Congress illustration of an Odd Fellows memento.
It all started Saturday when I found a quilt kit I had purchase a few years back. It had no pattern with it, just a block name, Odd Fellows...
www.tngenweb.org/darkside/ioof.html Independent Order of Odd Fellows is benevolent and social society. It originate in England in the 1700s; some say as an offshoot of Free Masonry. It came to America in the early 1800s and on 26 April 1819 at Baltimore, Maryland Washington Lodge No. 1 was founded. The most seen I.O.O.F. gravemaker symbol or emblem is the Chain With Three Links, meaning Friendship, Love, and Truth. Odd Fellows are also known as “The Three Link Fraternity.” www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html The hand holding a heart is a symbol used by the I.O.O.F (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) and Masons, both fraternal organizations. It symbolizes charity. cemeteries.wordpress.com/category/odd-fellows/ The all-seeing eye, also called the Eye of Providence or Eye of God, has origins dating back to the Eye of Horus in Egyptian mythology. It has been adopted as part of the Great Seal of the United States, which shows the all-seeing eye floating on top of a pyramid. In cemeteries the all-seeing eye symbol is usually found associated with Freemasonry or the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The letters F, L and T inside the chain links stand for Friendship, Love, and Truth. www.ioof.org/ The name Oddfellows refers to a number of friendly societies operating in the United Kingdom. It also refers to a number of Lodges with histories dating back to the 18th century. These various organisations were set up to protect and care for their members and communities at a time when there was no welfare state, trade unions or National Health Service. The aim was (and still is) to provide help to members when they need it. The friendly societies are non-profit mutual organisations owned by their members. All income is passed back to the members in the form of services and benefits. By the 13th century, tradesmen's guilds had become established and prosperous. During the 14th Century, with the growth of trade, the guild masters moved to protect their power (and wealth) by restricting access to the guilds. In response, the less experienced (and less wealthy) "Fellows" set up their own rival Guilds. In smaller towns and villages, there were too few Fellows from the same trade to set up a local Guild, so Fellows from a number of trades banded together to form a local Guild of Fellows from an odd assortment of trades. Hence, Guilds of Odd Fellows. The Oddfellows had spread to America, and several unofficial lodges existed in New York City, but American Odd Fellowship is regarded as being founded in Baltimore in 1819, by Thomas Wildey.
Avco China match holder made for the Odd Fellows, Harrisburg PA. Backstamp circa 1918 - 1920s.
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IOOF. shelf bracket, c. 1875
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