Good Templars and Odd Fellows

For years I have been considering refounding the Good Templars who were sometimes allied with Odd Fellows that my kinded belonged. This would be Christine and I rising from the ashes as Phoenix Birds.

Jon The Nazarite

The IOGT International (formerly known as the International Organisation of Good Templars and International Order of Good Templars and the Independent Order of Good Templars) is an international non-governmental organisation working in the field of temperance. It is based in Sweden, a country which had very strict alcohol policies and laws in the past.

The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia. Unlike many, however, it admitted men and women equally, and also made no distinction by race.

In 1850, in Utica, New York, Daniel Cody founded one…