The Catholic orders as a suite

1885–1940 · South Bend and Mishawaka (boundary); Osceola's parish test controls

The suite, in its parts. Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1, founded January 1885 — the Irish Catholic line, in Howard. The St. Joseph County Federation of Catholic Societies — the county umbrella, in Howard. Knights of Columbus, South Bend Council No. 553 — in Howard at 1907, and standing today in the fraternal directories under its council style, 553 Santa Maria Council; the charter dated from the number, as the row directs: a council number in the five-hundreds dates its charter to the order's second decade of expansion, before the First World War — the number is the dating evidence, and the exact charter date's settler is the state council record named below. Knights of Columbus, Mishawaka Council 1878 — the neighbouring city's council, founded 1940 in the fraternal-directory record, its higher number carrying its later date on its face. The suite's other floor lines — Knights of America, the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Legion / Columbia lines — do not stand in Howard's reached sections or in the directories reached, and are printed as not found there, with their gap named: the Catholic-order state records (Knights of Columbus Indiana state council; Catholic Order of Foresters courts) are their settling sources. For Osceola the suite's test is controlled by the banked Churches & Religion parish test: no Catholic parish is seated in the town or township, and no council, division, or court of any Catholic order seats there in the record reached — the township's Catholics belonged to Mishawaka and South Bend parishes, and their orders with them.

Sources: Howard (1907) for the AOH, the Federation, and Council 553; Cause IQ fraternal-societies directory (South Bend–Mishawaka metro) for 553 Santa Maria Council and Mishawaka Council 1878 (founded 1940); the banked Churches & Religion for the Osceola parish test.