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The Junior Order of United American Mechanics is an American fraternal order. It began as a youth affiliation of the
The Junior Order of United American Mechanics is an American fraternal order. It began as a youth affiliation of the Order of United American Mechanics The Order of United American Mechanics was an anti-Catholic American Nativist organization of the mid-19th century. It was founded in Philadelphia amid the anti-alien riots of 1844-45. It originally was called the ''Union of Workers''. Members wer ...
, but seceded to become its own organization and eventually absorbed its parent order. Originally, it was an anti-Catholic
Anti-Catholicism is hostility towards Catholics or opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and/or its adherents. At various points after the Reformation, some majority Protestant states, including England, Prussia, Scotland, and the Uni ...
, nativist group.
In 1923 the JOUAM had 253,399 members in its "Funeral Benefit Dept" and 22,519 "Beneficiary Degree" members. Its headquarters at that time were located at 741 Wabash Building, and reportedly had state and local councils in nearly every state in the Union. It also ran a home for the orphans of deceased members in Tiffin, Ohio
Tiffin is a city in and the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. Developed along the Sandusky River, which flows to Lake Erie, Tiffin is about 55 miles southeast of Toledo. The population was 17,963 at the 2010 census.Willow Grove, a suburb of
Philadelphia
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, Pennsylvania
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and held a national convention biennially. It also had a bimonthly news paper, ''Junior American'', which is still published.
Between 1925 and 1932, they constructed the Junior Order United American Mechanics National Orphans Home near Lexington, North Carolina
Lexington is the county seat
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. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
See also
* Daughters of America, the JOUAMfemale auxiliary Fraternal orders often have "side degrees", auxiliaries or appendant (as opposed to primary). Some of these are created as female "sister organizations", youth organizations or side degrees proper which are organizations associated with or within t ...
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* Anti-Catholicism in the United States Anti-Catholic organizations Anti-immigration politics in the United States Fraternal orders {{US-org-stub