Osceola Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders

Secret Societies & Fraternal Orders

Scope and boundary discipline. The banked this history already seats Osceola's own lodge record at register strength, and this section builds from that record and does not re-derive it: the Internal Revenue Service exempt-organizations register, read whole on 11 November 2026 (seventy-three organizations), seats a lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana at 108 N Beech Rd, Osceola, its exemption ruled in February 1957, and an Osceola Lions Club, c/o 223 N Boles St, ruled in March 1966. The lodge's name and number remain the banked gap GAP-O10-C2, settled only by the Grand Lodge of Indiana's directory, and the Lions' continuity is bounded by GAP-O10-C3; both gaps stand untouched below. Everything else in this section is the floor the banked register cannot supply — the 1907 lodge census and the orders behind it — and that floor is South Bend's (Howard's 1907 roster) and Mishawaka's, carried at boundary size and labelled, with the Osceola/Penn share stated in every article. That share is uniform and is printed once here and again per article: no order dug below — Odd Fellows, Pythians, Red Men, Maccabees, Catholic orders, Prince Hall — seats a body in Osceola or Penn Township in any record reached; the township's chartered fraternal record is the Masons and the Lions of the banked register, and its people otherwise belonged to lodges across the lines.