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Secret Societies & Fraternal Orders — North Liberty
Fraternal North Liberty is one strong lodge, its women's order beside it, a wartime glimpse of the benefit societies, and a directory of memberships that belonged to lodges in other towns as often as to this one. This section keeps those layers separate: a lodge seated here is printed as seated here; a townsman's membership is printed as a membership, with the lodge's seat stated where the record states it.
North Liberty Lodge No. 266, F. & A.M.: the town's standing order
Hall c. 1925 – present; 128 North Main Street
The Masonic lodge is the one fraternal body in North Liberty whose whole modern record can be read in public sources. North Liberty Lodge No. 266, Free and Accepted Masons, meets at 128 North Main Street, where the National…
The Eastern Star, the Woodmen, and the orders in the wartime press
1918, and the membership record
Around the lodge stand its companion order and a wartime glimpse of the benefit societies. The Order of the Eastern Star's North Liberty chapter, No. 290, is attested in the town's own record — a Palmer Funeral Homes staff…
Memberships are not lodges: the 1907 evidence, kept separate
Howard's biographies, 1907
Howard's 1907 county history shows North Liberty men inside the century's orders — without seating those orders here. Its biography of a North Liberty physician, Dr. Darling, records him as "a Mason and a member of the Knights of…
The negative tests, and what stands
Tested November 2026; standing as of November 2026
Two required tests print as negatives on the record reached. No Prince Hall lodge seated in North Liberty was found — a result consistent with the census record in the Black history leg, and printed as a searched negative, its…