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Northern Fraternal Life, headquartered in Milwaukee, two years later. Its name changed to Catholic Family Life Insurance (CFLI) in 1949. At the time of merger with Catholic Knights, CFLI, with headquarters in the northern Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, had a total of 45,000 members in 78 chapters located primarily in the upper Midwest and New England.
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Catholic fraternal benefit society, CFLI would become the first to insure women and children, and first to provide Masses for living and deceased members. Over the years several societies merged with CFLI, including Rhode
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Catholic Financial Life Building is among the tallest buildings in Milwaukee. The ground floor also contains the All Saints Chapel, dedicated in December 2010. A chapel contains hand-carved statues depicting patron saints of the ethnic groups who have played major roles in the fraternal benefits
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on April 23, 1877. Branch No. 1 of the new group, the Order of United
Catholics, received its charter from the State of Tennessee. The order changed its name to the Catholic Knights of Honor on June 5, and then, at the suggestion of Bishop Feehan, changed to Catholic Knights of America. The Order's
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Catholic Knights of American merged with the Catholic Knights Insurance Society to form the Catholic Knights. On April 1, 2010, Catholic Knights then merged with Catholic Family Life Insurance to create Catholic Financial Life. At the time of the merger the CK had 85,000 members in 141
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was established in 1895, which had its own sessions and met jointly with the male branches on "occasions of a social nature." Women were allowed into the Order in their own right in 1916 and in 1952 women were elected as both national secretary and on a seat on the
Supreme Board. A juvenile
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Catholic Knights of America was a fraternal life-insurance company chartered under the laws of the State of Kentucky, U.S. The origins of the Catholic Knights of America dated from when James J. McLaughlin (a Catholic and a member of the
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was founded on January 21, 1885, to concentrate on insurance activities. In 1958 this order changed its name to the Catholic Knights Insurance Society.
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