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Fidelity Degree of Honor Lodge No. 56
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Fidelity Degree of Honor Lodge No. 56, Grand Island
Information furnished by Mrs. Alice Taylor
This lodge was chartered April 5, 1893, and met in the A. O. U. W. hall. It has enjoyed a steady growth to a present membership of 170.
The charter members and first officers, those who held the honorable post of C. of Honer (PCofH), recorders (Rcdr.), and the present officers (1919) of the lodge (see list below).
| Adams, Myrtle (Rcdr.) | Ferguson, S. H. | Metcalf, I. .J. | Powers, Mrs. M. V. (Rcdr.) |
| Andrews, Eliza | Ferguson, S. M. | Metcalf, Susan | Raphael, Maria J. (1st Rcdr.) |
| Andrews, Geo. H. | Guhl, Lizzie (PCofH) | Nichols, Luella (Rcdr.) | Raphael, Marie (Rcdr.) |
| Barr, Alex (LH) | Hanchett, Cora (PCofH) | Owens, A. D. | Roush, Rose (PCofH) |
| Barr, Eliza J. | Helling, Mary (PCofH) | Owens, Annie (PCofH & Rcdr.) | |
| Birk, Housine (PCofH) | Hirschburg, Etta (PCofH) | Owens, S. B. (1st LofH) | Sayre, Lizzie (Rcdr.) |
| Brewster, Emma (PCofH & Rcdr.) | Hollowell, Cynthia (1st CofH) | Searson, Ed. | |
| Cosh, A. | Hollowell, J. F. | Pence, John W. | Searson, Ed. (Rcdr.) |
| Cosh, M. | Kent, S. F. (Rcdr.) | Pence. Mary | Searson, Jennie (1st PCofH) |
| Dean, E. A. | Petersen, C. L. | Searson, Minnie (PCofH) | |
| Dean, Geo. P. | Lahann, Minnie (PCofH) | Petersen, S. P. | Sproul, Polly (PCofH) |
| Dunlap, Marry (PCofH) | McAllister, Mary (PCofH) | Powers, Annie | Taylor, Alice (PCofH & Rcdr.) |
| Feeney, Mary (PCofH) | McDermott, Melissa (PCofH) | Powers, M. V. | Turner, Mollie (PCofH) |
| PRESENT OFFICERS, 1919 | |||
| Past C. of Honor Mary Feeney, | C. of H Minnie Lahann. | L of H Rose Roush, | C. of Cerm Elizabeth Salyer, |
| Fine Cora Hanchett, | Treasurer Millie Rousey, | Recorder Alice Taylor, | Usher Myrtle Salyer |
| Usher Margaret Salyer | Inside Warden Elizabeth Stegeman | Outside Warden Lucy Haney | 1st to C. of H. Alice Hunt |
| 2 st to C. of H. Polly Sproul | 1st M. of H. Edna Miller | 1st M. of H. Mae Emmons | Musician Grace Corl |
| Trustee Ella Broawell | Trustee H. B. Rousey | Trustee Hausine Birk | Drill Team Captain Hausine Birk |
Cited Source:
A. F. Buechler and R. J. Barr, editors. "Fraternals and Social Organziations of Hall Cuonty, Fidelity Degree of Honors," History of Hall County Nebraska (Lincoln, NE: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1920): 377. Provided by the Prairie Pioneer Genealogical Society, Grand Island, Nebraska.
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