1800s NJ JOHN ESTELL MANOR FOUNDING FATHER IMPROVED ORDER HEPTASOPHS SIGNED DOC

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JOHN ESTELL Prominent 19th Century Citizen of Woodbury, NJ JOHN ESTELL HOUSE 199 Walkers Forge Rd, Mays Landing, NJ (1826 - 1894) WEALTHY MANUFACTURING EXECUTIVE OF COAL, LIME, CEMENT and FERTILIZER IN WOODBURY, NEW JERSEY, & MEMBER OF THE HISTORIC ESTELL FAMILY OF SOUTH JERSEY – NOTED FOR THEIR GLASSWORKS

HERE’S A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY ESTELL – A “PROVIDENT CONCLAVE, No. 47, IMPROVED ORDER HEPTASOPHS” DUES DOCUMENT SIGNED BY ESTELL AS FINANCIER – 1p., DATED AT WOODBURY, NJ, MARCH 1, 1906.

The Improved Order of Heptasophs was a fraternal order in the United States that existed from 1878-1917. Its main focus was on insurance of its members. Unusually for a nineteenth century American fraternal order, the Improved Order of Heptasophs dispensed with the state or "Grand" level of organization and consisted only of the local Subordinate Conclaves and the Supreme Conclave, which had control over the groups business and beneficiary activities.