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EH.Net Encyclopedia: Fraternal Sickness Insurance |
 | | In the 1840s, the North American Odd Fellows seceded from the IOOFMU and founded the IOOF Sovereign Grand Lodge (SGL) that had jurisdiction over state and province level Grand Lodge jurisdictions in North America. |
| | Estimates for participation in self-help organizations in North America are somewhat lower but they suggest a similar importance of friendly societies for insuring households against the costs of sickness and burial. |
| | As Theodore Ross, the SGL's grand secretary, noted in 1890, American Odd Fellows came from "the great middle, industrial classes almost exclusively." Similarly, studies for Lynn, Massachusetts and Missouri found a heavy working-class representation among IOOF lodge memberships (Cumbler, 1979, p.46; Thelen, 1986, p. |
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