Haymakers Association, Minnehaha No. 18½ Membership Dues Receipt for Huston Wyeth, 1899
Entry/Object ID
AM2014.26.464
Scope and Content
Haymakers Association, Minnehaha No. 18½ Membership Dues Receipt for Huston Wyeth, March 31, 1899. Dues $2.00. Signed by illegible.
according to internet source:
The National Haymakers' Association was a side degree of the Improved Order of Red Men, similar perhaps to the Shriners within Freemasonry. Meeting places were titled Haylofts. Sometimes the meeting halls of the Redmen served as Haylofts. Offices had titles like "Collector of Straws" and "Guard of the Barn Door", and candidates for initiation were styled "Tramps" and were overseen by a "Boss Driver".
The side degree was founded in 1879, and had 10,000 members as late 1980. The NHA was said to have a typical fraternal oath and its initiation ritual reflected Masonic influence. The titles and terminology of the group included referring to its meeting place as a "Hayloft", its secretary as "Collector of the Straws" and treasurer as "Keeper of the Bundles". The two senitinels were the "Guard of the Hayloft" and the "Guard of the Barndoor".
Collection
Marshall & Melanie White
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Receipt
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Financial Records
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
Social Clubs, Haymakers Association, Minnehaha No. 18½
