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Evolving from earlier Orders of Odd Fellows first founded in England during the 1700's, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian co-ed international fraternal order founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland.
Who Are We? As an organization, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows aims to provide a framework that promotes personal and social development. For members, the Degrees in Odd Fellowship emphasize a leaving of the old life and the start of a better one and of helping those in need.
Lodges Near You. Don’t know where the your closest active Lodge is? Click below to find the contact information for your Jurisdiction. You will see the contact information listed for each active branch of the Order. Many Jurisdictions will have their own website listed for you to find your local Lodge through.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was founded on the North American Continent in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 26, 1819 when Thomas Wildey and four members of the Order from England instituted Washington Lodge No. 1. This lodge received its charter from Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows in England.
As an organization, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows aims to provide a framework that promotes personal and social development. Lodge degrees and activities aim to improve and elevate every person to a higher, nobler plane; to extend sympathy and aid to those in need, making their burdens lighter, relieving the darkness of despair; to war ...
Our Creed: Genuine FRIENDSHIP, which heareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things, is the first step toward progress and personal enrichment, and the progenitor of Temperance, Prudence and Justice.
All anyone knew of the remains was that they belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a centuries-old fraternal organization. Owing to the dirt, they also knew the skeleton was...
The individual interested in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows has probably read or perhaps repeated the Valediction of Odd Fellowship, by Past Grand Sire D. D. Monroe - 1944-1946, and no doubt realizes that it refers to "... my duty 'to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan'..."
Founded in 1819 the Independent Order Of Odd Fellows, one of the world’s oldest fraternal orders, has more than 3000 lodge listings in the IOOF Lodge Directory.
