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R Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Tuscumbia Lodge No. 305 (Tuscumbia,

507 Mo.).

Minute books, 1873-1903.

Two volumes.

MICROFILM

These are the minute books of the Odd Fellows lodge at Tuscumbia in Miller County, Missouri. The volumes contain minutes beginning with the organizational meeting on 17 September 1873 and continuing through 14 March 1903. Routine lodge business consisted of acceptance and dismissal of members, payments of sick and funeral benefits, and work on the various degrees of the order.

Tuscumbia Lodge No. 305 received its charter on 8 September 1873 and held its organizational meeting nine days later. Rodolphus Goodrich, Samuel Umstead, Edward L. Cummings, John D. Weitz, and Henry Bradlyford were charter members. Goodrich and Umstead served among the first officers of the lodge; later Philip F. Hauenstein, Charles V. Wells, D. H. Kouns, and T. A. Mooney filled posts as officers. During its first year, the lodge met weekly in the Masonic Hall.

The records of the lodge consist of two minute books. The volumes contain minutes of meetings from 1873 to 1903, but there are several lapses during this period. There are no records for September 1874—October 1879 or October 1881—June 1895.

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