The Knights of Pythias ride no more ....

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We've been using these weeks of social isolation to do a good deal of rearranging at the Lucas County Historical Society Museum and earlier this week, brought a small but colorful collection of lodge-related memorabilia upstairs to a new home in the Vredenburg Gallery. Among the items was this colorful Knights of Pythias ceremonial ribbon.

The Knights was one of three major fraternal organizations that thrived in Chariton during the latter half of the 19th century and well into the 20th. The Masons, still with us, is the oldest. The other two, which have faded away, were the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) and the Knights. Each developed an auxiliary as the years passed --- Eastern Star, Rebekahs and the Pythian Sisters.

The Masons were organized in the 1850s, the Odd Fellows in the 1860s and the Knights, during December of 1874. Here's the text of a brief article published in The Leader of Dec. 5, 1874, describing the birth of the order:

NEW ORDER --- On Monday night, Chariton Lodge No. 25, Knights of Pythias, was instituted by R. C. Walker, of Mr. Pleasant, J.B. Herdman, of Fort Madison, and two Knights from Ottumwa. The following officers were elected and installed: A. Reusch, P.C.; J.N. McClanahan, C.C.; R.M. Moore, V.C.; D.M. Thompson, P; E.T. Best, K.R.S.; Moses Folson, M.F.; J.C. Baker, M.E.; Jesse Coles, M.A.; S.E. Carpenter, L.S.; W.B. Critchfield, O.S.; and N.B. Gardner and Cyrus Sprague, K.

The national order had been launched 10 years earlier in Washington, D.C., by Justus H. Rathbone, inspired by the attributes of loyalty, honor and friendship incorporated into the legend of Damon and Pythias. For the first 10 years, only single men were admitted but married men were allowed to join after 1875.

The Knight built all or parts of two buildings on the Chariton square. The smaller structure, dating from 1894, still stands in good repair on the east side. The far grander and somewhat later "Temple" building was on the south side, located on the site of a newer building now occupied by a medical supply firm. Grand Pythian lodge rooms occupied the entire third floor of the latter building, which went up in smoke during 1930 --- and both the fire and its unfortunate timing as the Great Depression settled in sent the Knights into a gradual decline.

The Pythian Sisters survived the longest --- into the early 1980s --- but the Knights have long since closed their books of ritual, packed away their regalia and faded into graveyards.

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