Fifty years of Odd Fellowship in California : commemorating the founding of the Order by the instituting of California Lodge No. 1, on September ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine (1899)
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Grand Encampment of California · San Francisco : H.S. Crocker Co. · leaf 191
ges and purchased for stallfeeding, and during the fall months these vast herds of now fat, sleek cattle wereshipped by rail to the various slaughter pens of Cincinnati, Chicago and KansasCit\-. In charge of these herds which often numbered thousands were a classof men called cowboys, many of them… … Mykon C. Close, Past Grand Brother Close is a thorough American, three generations having been born on American soil, and all threehave served their country in its hour of need. He joined the Odd Fellows when 21 years of age, and is now amember of Garden City Lodge No. 142, of San Jose. Brother…
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. California Lodge No. 1 (San Francisco, Calif.) · Fraternal organizations
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