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2 unusual facts about Odd Fellows


Caleb H. Baumes

He died while riding on a train on September 25, 1937 near Hudson, New York when returning from an Odd Fellows convention in Milwaukee.

William W. Reed

He continued to work as a physician in such jobs as office physĨician for an Odd Fellows' mutual life insurance company and physician to the Jefferson County insane asylum.


Gulstan Ropert

Ropert's peace-loving nature made him hesitate in enforcing in his vicariate the condemnation by the Holy Office of the secret societies of the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Sons of Temperance on June 24, 1894.

Monsey Church

His alternate was put forward, but it became clear that he was a member of the Odd Fellows, and the Classis did not seat him.

Templars of Honor and Temperance

It is a secret fraternal order whose signs, hand grips, passwords and emblems closely resemble those of the Masons and the Odd Fellows.


see also

Dewey Jackson

Jackson began playing professionally at an early age, with the Odd Fellows Boys' Band (1912), Tommy Evans (1916-17), and George Reynolds's Keystone Band.

Edward M. Beers

Beers was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served until his death in Washington, D.C. Interment in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery in Mount Union.