2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
Single sheet certificate, 9" x 11" partially preprinted on blue paper certifying William Flickinger's membership, Nachee Lodge #94, Monroeville, Ohio, May 28, 1858. Fancy, previous folds, VG. Flickinger would later enlist in the 197th OH Infantry. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. In 1842, after an elementary dispute on authority, the American Lodges formed a governing system separate from the English Order, and in 1843 assumed the name Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Like countless other fraternities, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows began by limiting their membership to white men only. Some years later, the IOOF became the first fraternity in the United States to include (white) women when it adopted the "Beautiful Rebekah Degree" on September 20, 1851, by initiative of Schuyler Colfax, later Vice-President of the United States.
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