. Book of the Royal blue . SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE SOVEREIGNGRAND LODGE I. O. O. F., BALTIMORE. BY ELVIN J. CURRY, A. G. SECRETARY, S. C. L., I. 0. O. F. THE City of Baltimore is the birthplace ofthe Independent Order of Odd the 26th day of April, 1819, ThomasWildey, a Baltimorean, together with fourother devotees of the mysteries, institutedat the Seven Stars tavern on Second (nowWater) Street, Washington Lodge No. 1,I. 0. 0. F. From that day to this the seedof Odd Fellowship have been scattered over The supreme body of the Order of OddFellows is the Sovereign Grand Lod
. Book of the Royal blue . SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE SOVEREIGNGRAND LODGE I. O. O. F., BALTIMORE. BY ELVIN J. CURRY, A. G. SECRETARY, S. C. L., I. 0. O. F. THE City of Baltimore is the birthplace ofthe Independent Order of Odd the 26th day of April, 1819, ThomasWildey, a Baltimorean, together with fourother devotees of the mysteries, institutedat the Seven Stars tavern on Second (nowWater) Street, Washington Lodge No. 1,I. 0. 0. F. From that day to this the seedof Odd Fellowship have been scattered over The supreme body of the Order of OddFellows is the Sovereign Grand Lodge, F., which has its headquarters in Balti-more, and will hold its seventy-ninth annualsession in that city, September 21-26, thisyear. This sovereign body has jurisdictionover all the grand lodges, grand encamp-ments, Rebekah lodges, and departmentcouncils, in all the states and territories. 1. O. O. F. TEMPLK. the whole world. The birth of this greatorganization gave an impetus to progressin the fraternal world, as the crossing ofthe Atlantic in the same year by the firststeamship, the Great Eastern, gave animpetus to the progress in the commercialworld. Its growth has been more phenome-nal than any of its kind; from humble origin,it has become the largest and most power-ful beneficial fraternity in the world. in this country and in all the provincesand colonies of Canada, and also over grandand subordinate bodies of different kindsin fifteen foreign countries. The branches that have developed fromthis mother tree now number fifty-five grandlodges in this country and Canada andeleven grand lodges in foreign countries,which are made up of 12,792 subordinatelodges, having 1,002,272 members; fifty-two SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE 19
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