Download or read book The Official History of Odd Fellowship : the Three-link Fraternity ; Or the Antiquities, Creative Period, and Golden Age of Friendship, Love, and Truth ; Declared the Official History of the Order by the Sovereign Grand Lodge, September 25, 1897, Reaffirmed September 21, 1899 written by Henry Leonard Stillson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the founding and early history of A history of Odd Fellows, or Oddfellows, also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship, an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London, with a focus on the development in the United States of the the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), 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. Evolving from the Order of Odd Fellows founded in England during the 1700s, the IOOF was originally chartered by the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity in England but has operated as an independent organization since 1842, although it maintains an inter-fraternal relationship with the English Order. The order is also known as the Triple Link Fraternity, referring to the order's "Triple Links" symbol, alluding to its motto "Friendship, Love and Truth."