The Independent Order of Odd Fellows 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. E
Seal of the IOOF Sovereign Grand Lodge.
British–American Thomas Wildey (1782–1861) founder of the Washington Lodge No 1
Oddfellows' Hall in Streetsville, Mississauga, Ontario, built in 1867. The building was sold in 1972.
Seal of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the IOOF, from certificate (1871).
Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
…Robert Pfeifle, 3rd mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Albert Pike, author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University…