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![“The [Norman] Mayor Gave the Keys to City to the Odd Fellows”](https://www.norman-oddfellows.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Spottswood.png)
Guy Spottswood Mayor Guy Robert Arthur Spottswood (Born: July 3, 1895, Died: January 25, 1973) is laid to rest in our cemetery (section 8, lot 21, space 7). Photo credit: Norman Transcript, Feb 6, 1927 On Monday, May 18, 1925, in the presence of 155 Odd Fellows, the Mayor of the City of Norman, Guy…
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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…
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100 Block-South The plaque mentioning Odd Fellowship, shown here, is actually located at 131 E Main Street (North side of the street) directly in front of the First Fidelity Bank – Downtown Norman. The worst structural fire to hit Norman occurred on July 7, 1902. It wiped out wooden buildings on the south side of…
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![ODD FELLOWSHIP. [PART 2]](https://www.norman-oddfellows.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/dec20-1890.png)
By G. N. Shears, P.G.. From the Norman Transcript, Saturday, December 20, 1890. We will now turn our attention to Odd fellowship at the time of its starting point in America. Odd fellowship first made its appearance in Baltimore Maryland April 26th, 1819, instituted by one Thomas Wildley, an Englishman. Thomas Widely was a member…
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By G. N. Shears, P.G.. From the Norman Transcript, Saturday, December 13, 1890. The principles which lie at the basis of the organization of Odd Fellowship I am prepared to avow and maintain, not only here, but before a listening world. You ask “What are these principles?” Here they are, indissolubility linked together, Friendship, Love…