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A benefit society, fraternal benefit society, fraternal benefit order, friendly society, or mutual aid society is a society, an organization or a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. Such organizations may be formally organized with charters and established ...
Had 3,123 members in 66 lodges in 1904. [309] Order of Amitie – Philadelphia-based order dissolved in 1894. [310] Order of the Benevolent Union – One of a number of short-term endowment benefit fraternals that were popular in the 1880s and 1890s and then went bankrupt. [311][312] Order of Chosen Friends.
Headquarters along the Mississippi River in Rock Island, Illinois. Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) is an American fraternal benefit society in the United States, which sells various investments and insurance products, with membership over 750,000 as of 2017. [1] Total assets reached US$17.5 Billion billion in 2022, making it one of the largest ...
Woodmen of the World Building in Nacogdoches, Texas. WoodmenLife (officially Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society) is a not-for-profit fraternal benefit society founded in 1890, based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that operates a large privately held insurance company for its members. [4]
Order of Calanthe. The Order of Calanthe, originally titled the Independent Order of Calanthe, is a fraternal benefit society for African American women. It was established in Louisiana in 1883 as an auxiliary to the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Calanthe was the wife of Pythias in the ...
Members of the Royal Arcanum posed on the auditorium steps at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, June 23, 1909.. The Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum, commonly known simply as the Royal Arcanum, is a fraternal benefit society founded in 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts by John A. Cummings and Darius Wilson, who had previously been among the founders of the Knights of ...
The Ancient Order of United Workmen (AOUW) was a fraternal organization in the United States and Canada, providing mutual social and financial support after the American Civil War. It was the first of the "fraternal benefit societies", organizations that would offer insurance as well as sickness, accident, death and burial policies.
A friendly society (sometimes called a benefit society, mutual aid society, benevolent society, fraternal organization or ROSCA) is a mutual association for the purposes of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking. It is a mutual organization or benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or ...