Special Orders Source: Norman Transcript, Monday, May 18, 1925 According to the Norman Transcript’s coverage of the IOOF statewide convention in Norman Oklahoma in May 1925 three “Special Orders” were conferred: Tuesday, June 16, 1925, the Norman Transcript announced that the “made such a big hit” at the Odd Fellows Conclave that a second conferral…

Fraternal Orders by Linda D. Wilson (No date given)Source: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=FR007 According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, in their Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture; In 1898 there were fifty-eight Odd Fellows lodges. On November 16, 1889, seven months after the Land Run of 1889, an organizational meeting of the IOOF was held in Norman, Oklahoma…