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The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, and adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873. The order is based on some teachings from the Bible, [1] and is open to people of all religious ...
The Eastern Star Home was a retirement home and convalescent facility in Los Angeles, California for the members of the Order of the Eastern Star, Master Masons and their female relatives. Built between 1931 and 1936, [2] the home operated until the late 1990s when membership in the home had decreased precipitously to just 34 residents.
The women wore aprons with the five colors of the star. Philanthropy. Each Grand Chapter has its own fraternal projects. The Indian Chapter ran a home for infirm members and Prince Hall Masons. Others have sponsored nursing scholarships and "Miss Prince Hall" and "Queen of the Grand Chapter" contests. Notable members. Ruth M. Kirk
The building, Beaux-Arts in style, was built from 1907 to 1909 for Perry Belmont, son of August Belmont and grandson of Matthew C. Perry. The trapezoidal plot of land was purchased for $90,000, and construction cost $1.5 million. [3] Perry Belmont served as a United States Congressman from New York, and later as the United States' ambassador to ...
Site. The Chester A. Arthur Home is located at 123 Lexington Avenue, in the Murray Hill or Rose Hill neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It sits between 29th Street to the north and 28th Street to the south, facing Lexington Avenue to the west from a frontage of 21.83 feet (6.65 m).
Almost 2000 nurses served during the second Boer War, the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902, alongside nurses who were part of the colonial armies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand. They served in tented field hospitals. 23 Army Nursing sisters from Britain lost their lives from disease outbreaks.
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