The Eagles: Aerie No. 435

Meeting by 1904 — 61601 South Ironwood Road today

The aerie in Howard: The Fraternal Order of Eagles meets in Howard's census on Wednesday evenings, its officers named in print — Michael F. Calnon, past worthy president; Charles Keller, worthy president; and, as worthy treasurer, J. Lott Losey, the same man who kept the Owls' supreme treasury across the page: the club world was small enough that its officers recur across orders. The aerie's number, 435, and its present home at 61601 South Ironwood Road, with its Auxiliary No. 435 at the same address, stand in the federal register and the order's own listings, the lodge active in 2026. The aerie's charter year was not pinned and is not asserted.

The Hering claim, from the aerie's side: Frank E. Hering belonged to this aerie — the aerie in Mishawaka, Virginia, telling the order's story in 2019, states that "while living in South Bend, Ind., Brother Hering became a member of the Eagles... and subsequently a member of the Grand Aerie," and the order's tradition, repeated in the Dayton press in 2020, holds that his Mother's Day campaign "began at the Eagles Aerie in South Bend, Indiana, in 1904, where Frank Hering was a member." The Elks' own printed history, in the entry above, puts Hering's February 29, 1904, Mother's Day resolution in Lodge No. 235's meeting. Both orders claim the same man and the same season; the record reached carries both claims and settles neither, and they are printed here as the orders left them.

Sources:

1. Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Vol. I (1907), p. 462 — the Order of Eagles' Wednesday meetings and its officers, Losey among them.
2. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie No. 435 and Auxiliary No. 435, federal register listings — 61601 S. Ironwood Rd., South Bend.
3. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Virginia aerie history (2019), and Dayton Daily News, May 2020 — Hering's membership in the South Bend aerie and the aerie tradition on the Mother's Day campaign's beginning.