St. Louis Lodge No. 5  I.O.O.F. Independent Order of Odd Fellows Welcome In F.L. & T. To Our Home Page. St. Louis Lodge No. 5 located at 3765 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108. Phone 314-533-1383 Chartered August 21, 1841.

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Charter Members Henry Doellner, W.S. Stewart, Harvey R. Curtis, Augustine Kennedy, John L. Pointer, Oliver Harris and Charles B. DeBrueil.    

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We meet every Saturday Evening at 7:30 PM for friendship and fellowship. We have met every Saturday Night since our inception without interruption, through fires, floods, wars, infectious diseases, and bad weather. We celebrated our 8000 consecutive meeting on June 10, 1995. Visiting Odd Fellows are always welcome.  

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 Thomas Wildey 1782 1861 ..

 
Thomas Wildey, founder of Odd Fellowship in North America, was a man of immense vitality, humor, and warmth. Thomas Wildey was born in London, England, in 1782. He was left an orphan five years later - and the Odd Fellow pledge to "Educate the Orphan" sprang from his personal childhood experiences. At  the age of 14, Wildey went to live with an uncle.After he had 9 years of schooling, he became an apprentice to a maker of coach springs. He joined the Odd Fellows in 1804.
When restlessness brought Thomas Wildey to America in 1817, the British were still unpopular in the States because of the War of 1812. In that year Baltimore was . suffering both a yellow fever epidemic and mass unemployment. An outgoing personality, Wildey missed companionship and advertised in the newspaper to determine if there were any other Odd Fellows in Baltimore; he requested them to meet him at the Seven Stars Inn.
On April 26, 1819, Wildey and the four men who responded to the advertisement formed the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in North America, dedicating the Order to achieve philanthropic goals. Other Englishmen who were Odd Fellows had
grouped in the states along the Eastern Seaboard, and Wildey gathered them all into the newly formed fraternity. He traveled widely to set up lodges in the most recently settled parts of the country. At the time of his death in 1861, there were more than 200,000 members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 42 states.