- Knights of Pythias - Wikipedia
The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society founded in Washington, D C , on February 19, 1864 The Knights of Pythias was the first fraternal organization to receive a charter under an act of the United States Congress
- The Knights of Pythias
The Order of Knights of Pythias is an international, non-sectarian fraternal order established in Washington, DC, on February 19, 1864, by Justus H Rathbone It was the first fraternal order to be chartered by an Act of Congress
- Knights of Pythias: The Secret Society That Tried to Heal America After . . .
Meet the Knights of Pythias and its enigmatic founder, who led a grassroots effort to heal America after the Civil War
- HISTORY OF THE ORDER - Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Indiana
The Order of Knights of Pythias is a great international fraternity which was founded in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864, by Justus H Rathbone, and embraces more than two thousand subordinate lodges in the United States and Canada, with occasional lodges having been formed elsewhere
- KOP History - Knights of Pythias
Rathbone wrote the ritual for the Knights of Pythias which is based on the mythological friendship of Damon and Pythias, while he was a school teacher at the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse, in Eagle Harbor, Michigan
- Knights of Pythias - National Museum of American History
In 1864, in the midst of the third year of the Civil War, a clerk in the U S Treasury named Justus H Rathbone founded the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization, in Washington, D C
- Knights of Pythias - watertownhistory. org
These historical characters lived about four hundred or more years before the beginning of the Christian era They were members of a school, founded by Pythagoras, known as the father of Greek philosophy
- Pythian History — The Knights of Pythias
The Order of Knights of Pythias is an international, non-sectarian fraternal order, and was the first fraternal order to be chartered by an Act of Congress Today in addition to supporting our military the Order does charitable work, sponsor dances and fundraising events
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