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1880–1907 · Mishawaka and South Bend (boundary)
The lodge. In 1880 Chapman could say only that "There is also a lodge of the Knights of Pythias, of recent organization in Mishawaka" — no number, no name. By 1907 Howard names it: Knights of Pythias, Mishawaka Lodge No. 453, with William Garman, Chancellor Commander, and Frank P. Christoph, Keeper of Records and Seal; and the Uniform Rank, K. of P., with Walter C. Herzog, captain, and William Drumhiller, recorder. In South Bend the order is Crusade Lodge No. 14, with the Uniform Rank, South Bend Co. No. 12.
The Pythian Sisters' temple. The record reached names one Sisters temple in this county, and it is South Bend's: the Moonlight Temple, Rathbone Sisters No. 255, in Howard's South Bend roster. No Pythian Sisters temple appears in Howard's Mishawaka list, which was read whole — the Mishawaka temple is a tested negative inside the 1907 roster, not an omission in the telling: the row's "temple by name" is answered for South Bend (Moonlight Temple, Rathbone Sisters No. 255) and unanswered for Mishawaka, whose settling source is the Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge records and the Rathbone Sisters' own rolls.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), p. 797 — Knights of Pythias lodge "of recent organization in Mishawaka" (unnamed, unnumbered); Howard (1907), vol. 1, pp. 344–345 (Mishawaka Lodge No. 453, officers; Uniform Rank officers) and pp. 460–463 (Crusade Lodge No. 14; Uniform Rank, South Bend Co. No. 12; Moonlight Temple, Rathbone Sisters No. 255).