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Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 430-431
EAGLE LODGE ANCIENT ORDER UNITED WORKMEN, NO. 10. This fraternal insurance order was organized June 9, 1875, with thirteen charter members, and grew rapidly until now it assumes the dignity of being the largest Workman lodge of the state, totaling its membership to 875. It has an auxiliary in the A. P. O. N. T. The charter members of Eagle Lodge were: S. H. Downey, G. W. Keckler, W. F. Eichoff, J. M. Bishop, T. S. Berry, G. A. Nicholson, J. K. Martin, J. Robertson, A. S. Knowles, J. L. Berry, H. S. Howe, G. W. Stewart and W. T. Kirk. Following were the first officers: J. K. Martin, P. M. W.; S. H. Downey, M. W.; J. Robertson, G. F.; W. T. Kirk, overseer; G W. Stewart, financier; A. S. Knowles, receiver; T. S. Berry, G.; J. L. Berry, W.
Muscatine Lodge, No. 99, was instituted under dispensation by D. D. G. M., W. H. S. Howe, February 16, 1867, and chartered by Roderick Rose, G. M. W., and William H. Flemming, G. R. The following were the first officers: T. R. Fitzgerald, P. M. W.; Allen Broomhall, M. W.; John Stockdale, G. F.; J. G. H. Little, overseer; E. P. Day, recorder; A. N. Garlock, foreman; James A. Eaton, receiver; H. P. Jones, I. W.; John Hyink, O. W. There were sixty charter members.
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