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History of Odd Fellowship Founder in America and Georgia
A historic overview traces Thomas Wildey and early English lodges to the 1819 Baltimore founding of Washington Lodge No. 1 asOdd Fellows. It covers the 1843 organization of the first Georgia Grand Lodge in Savannah, charter details, officer roles, and the 1844 1845 growth, plus the incorporation act establishing The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Georgia with its powers and territorial reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ODD Fellowship
America
Georgia
Great Order
Odd Fellows
Gach
Vitor
Wildey
Thomas Wildey
London
Odd Fellows -Lodge
Manchester Unity
Baltimore
John Welch
Order
Baltimore American
The
Society of
Second Street
Richard Rosworth
John Duncan
John Caventham
England
Washington Lodge of Odd Fellows
First Grand Lodge OF
Odd Fellows Hall
Savannah
Oglethorpe Lodge
Live Oak
Franklin
Macon
Grand’ Lodge of
United State
Eald Grand Lodge
Alvin N
Miller
John Dorsett
G. Butler
B. H. Rodgers
B.S. Kempton
Ju Klin Lodge
Alvin N. Miller
G. L. Warren
E. Parsons
G. W. Miller
E. H. Rogers
E.S. Kempton
E. J. Jones
J. Dorsett
Grand Lodge of
Grand Lodge
Richard Waynes
Independent Order of Odd , Fellows
Alvin i. Miller
George W. Miller
Elisha H. Rogers
Edward Jas. Jones
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
of Georgia
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd. Fellows
State of Georgia
Savannwa
United States
Grand Lodge of the
State of