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1885 — 1907, at Howard's size
Insurance with a parish address: Before the Knights of Columbus, the city's Catholic men organized in benefit societies that Howard's census prints as a cluster, and the cluster is carried here whole at his size. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1 of St. Joseph County, was founded in January 1885. The Catholic Knights of America stood in St. Paul's Branch No. 408, founded in September 1885 by the Rev. Michael Ph. Fallize, and St. Boniface Branch No. 701, with a uniformed St. Mary's Commandery. The Catholic Order of Foresters worked through St. Edward Court No. 1424; the Independent Order of Foresters through Court St. Joseph No. 1576. Over them all sat a St. Joseph County Federation of Catholic Societies, meeting monthly — the parish club world with a county roof. The later course of these bodies was not reached; they stand in the record as Howard printed them, the documented base under the council that followed.
Sources:
- Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Vol. I (1907), pp. 462–463 — the Hibernians (January 1885), the Catholic Knights of America branches (September 1885), the Foresters' courts, and the county federation.