The Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers had 51 chapters in
1885 and by 1903 had about 60,000 members with chapters in almost every
state east of the Mississippi. On the Virginia True Reformers, you may
wish to consult James D. Watkinson's "William Washington Browne and the
True Reformers of Richmond, Virginia," in the Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography, vol. 97 (1989), pp. 375-398 (with several
illustrations); and the biographies of Browne and of the order's
secretary William Patrick Burrell in volume 2 of the Dictionary of
Virginia Biography.

Sara


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