Foresters
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF, a benevolent and fraternal organization founded at Newark, N. J., in 1874 and reorganized in 1881. The order has members throughout the United States and Canada, with branches in Great Britain, France, Norway, Aus- United States and Canada, with branches government is vested in a supreme court which sits in Toronto, Can., while high courts attend to the affairs of the order in the different States of the Union and in countries where branches exist. The number of members is now about 260,000, in countries where branches exist. The over $50,000,000. In the United States there are a high court, and about 4,200 subordinate courts.