Source: Northwest Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2019
A Digital Collection of Rockford, Illinois History
Source: Northwest Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2019
Independent Order of Good Templars
Temperance Society
Excelsior Lodge #709, IOGT, located in South Rockford
Meals every Tuesday in Excelsior Hall
This lodge organized January 16, 1866 in Engine Hall
In 1867, a hall of their own was built on Main Street between Kent and Morgan
It was a two story building, 70′ x 30′, with the lower story finished for a store and the upper story for a hall
“Many have been claimed from inebriety, and have been taught lessons of temperance”
Source: Page 27, 1872-73 Rockford City Directory
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