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Home > Civic, Social & Religions Organizations > Lodges > Order of Independent Americans, Council #36
Order
of Independent Americans, Council #36
1942
The lodge was instituted August 15, 1868. They met on second floor of a building on Edgmont Ave. between 5th & 6th St.
Photo courtesy of Janet Andrews Moulder, Wilmington, DE
"I am attaching a photo of the main membership of this lodge which is dated 1942. ... the men and their dates of installation as follows:
From left to right:Charles Battin - 1884
Thomas Riley - 1887
D. Ollie Parks - 1906
Allen Reid - 1910
Frank McLean - 1896
William Goodley - 1898
Richard T. Campbell - 1905
Clarence W. Andrews - 1913
W. S. Gest - 1886
Theodore Wilson - 1891
John Carr - 1904
The man in the large portrait on the wall was Bailey White.A note on the back of the photo mentions that these men had accumulated 492 years of membership at that date."
