(1 of 4) 33-year-old Joseph G. Prance, a modest Detroit tailor with his own shop at 1188 Gratiot Avenue, met with Allan Simpson Browne, a persuasive and energetic man who actually earned his living by traveling across Michigan and Ontario, establishing Moose Lodges. Browne had already built several small fraternal and civic organizations, and had previously tried to recruit Prance for another group, but in 1914, with much of the world on the brink of war, Prance agreed to become the first member of a new organization, which Browne would call the “Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers.”
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