Later Orders: Moose, Eagles, Prince Hall and the Klan Era

1856–2025 · South Bend and Mishawaka (boundary); the two townships

Prince Hall — the premise fails at city level. The row's negative test came back positive for the county, and it prints as a positive: the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Indiana's affiliate record lists St. Peters Lodge No. 31, at 1519 Linden Avenue, South Bend, IN 46628 — a Prince Hall lodge exists in South Bend. No Prince Hall lodge is seated in Clay or Harris township, in the Granger CDP, or in Mishawaka, in any roster searched; the township negative stands, the city negative does not. The grand lodge itself was established 16 September 1856. One conflict prints whole: the Grand Lodge of Indiana's reference record dates mutual recognition between the two grand lodges to May 1998, while a commercial directory gives 2014; the 1998 date is the Grand Lodge's own and is the one carried here, with the 2014 claim left standing beside it, unsettled from the sources reached. And one numbering point is left open as a question, not a fact: Howard's 1907 South Bend list carries a "St. Peter's Lodge No. 31, A.F. & A.M." among the city's Masonic bodies, and the Prince Hall affiliate record carries "St. Peters Lodge No. 31" in the same city — nothing in the record reached links the two No. 31s, and this section does not link them.

Eagles and Moose, pointer size. The Eagles: Mishawaka's Aerie No. 2083, Fraternal Order of Eagles, at 225 S Main Street, Mishawaka, IN 46544, is active in current listings (the order's own place record, with current hours) as of November 2026; the 1907 ancestor is Howard's South Bend Order of Eagles body (officers named, Charles Keller worthy president), for which Howard prints no aerie number. The Moose: the order's county pointer is South Bend's lodge, and its number prints two ways in the record reached — Moose International's 2025 convention proceedings, Schedule I (statement of lodge membership, 1 May 2024 – 30 April 2025), list a lodge numbered 384, name truncated to "Bend," with 515 active members on 30 April 2025; the IRS affiliate record names "South Bend Lodge No. 58 Loyal Order Of Moose," at 4443 White Feather Drive, South Bend, IN 46628-4380. The two numbers are printed whole and neither is preferred; the settler is Moose International's lodge locator. Pointer size is all either order gets here, as the row directs.

The Klan-era file test for the two townships. South Bend's Klan record is heavy and boundary: a downtown Klan headquarters, and the rally and street clash of 17–19 May 1924, when Notre Dame students fought the Klan in the streets — documented in Todd Tucker's Notre Dame vs. the Klan, in Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland, and in Jill Suzanne Nevel's thesis, "Fiery Crosses and Tempers: The Ku Klux Klan in South Bend, Indiana, 1923–1926" (Princeton, 1977), catalogued by the Indiana State Library. Against that city record, the township test: searches run specifically for a klavern, a Klan lodge, a charter, a cross-burning or any Klan action in Granger, in Harris Township and in Clay Township returned no township-specific record of any kind. Verdict for the two townships: tested negative, on searches shown; the 1924 South Bend record is boundary material and is not imported whole on the strength of proximity.

Sources:

1. Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Indiana affiliate record (via NonProfitFacts) — St. Peters Lodge No. 31, 1519 Linden Avenue, South Bend, IN 46628; Grand Lodge of Indiana reference record — MWPHGL of Indiana established 16 September 1856, mutual recognition May 1998 (the conflicting commercial-directory claim of 2014 printed whole above); Howard (1907), vol. 1, pp. 460–463 ("St. Peter's Lodge No. 31, A.F. & A.M.").
2. Fraternal Order of Eagles place record — Aerie No. 2083, 225 S Main Street, Mishawaka, IN 46544 (active, current hours), read November 2026; Howard (1907), South Bend Order of Eagles (no aerie number printed).
3. Moose International, 2025 Convention Proceedings, Schedule I — lodge No. 384, "Bend," 492 members on 1 May 2024, 515 active on 30 April 2025; IRS affiliate record (via NonProfitFacts) — "South Bend Lodge No. 58 Loyal Order Of Moose, 58," 4443 White Feather Drive, South Bend, IN 46628-4380.
4. Tucker, Notre Dame vs. the Klan; Egan, A Fever in the Heartland; Nevel, "Fiery Crosses and Tempers: The Ku Klux Klan in South Bend, Indiana, 1923–1926" (Princeton, 1977; Indiana State Library catalogue); township searches for klavern / Klan in Granger, Harris Township and Clay Township, November 2026 — no township-specific return.