Finah Benevolent Association

Title: Finah Benevolent Association

Inclusive Dates: 1937-2004

ID: RG 1881

Extent Information

7-1/2"

Creators

Finah Benevolent Association (New York, N.Y.)

Administrative/Biographical History

Founded around 1930 in New York. Incorporated in 1946. The Association may have had a relationship to the Knights of Pythias. According to its constitution, its purpose was to foster voluntary benevolence among members, and to promote social intercourse by means of social gatherings, entertainments, and lectures. It purchased graves and functioned as a burial society. It used three cemeteries: Beth El (N.J.) and New Montefiore. During part of its history it held annual anniversary dinners at a hotel in upstate New York. Dissolved around 2004.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Benevolent Societies
Burial Societies
Cemeteries
Charitable Societies
Fraternal Societies
Mutual Aid Societies
United States

Languages of Materials

English

Administrative Information

Acquired: 03/31/2009.

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Acquisition Note: New York State Department of Insurance; ACC 10/09

Collection Material Type: Official Records

Description: Box 1: Receipt for filing certificate of incorporation, 1946. Constitution and bylaws (typescripts), 1986. Ballots concerning amendment to constitution (regarding surviving spouse benefit), 2002. Bank resolutions and signature cards (photocopies), 1984-1994. Cemetery deeds, 1937 (original), and 1939, 1948 (photocopies). Cemetery signature forms, 1983-2002. Correspondence with cemeteries, 1986, 1996. Cemetery maps. Membership dues ledger, 1974-2002. Materials related to 55th and 56th anniversary celebrations at Raleigh Hotel (South Fallsburg, NY), 1984-1985. Financial statements, 1987-2002. Check stubs, 1983-2004. Stamp. Box 2: Meeting notices, minutes, letters to membership (includes three texts honoring recently deceased members, under the heading “Portrait of a knight”), 1983-1997. Correspondence with members, 1993-1996, 2002. Membership list (prior to dissolution), 2004. List of members entitled to distribution, ca. 2004. Lists of grave reservations for issuing of deeds prior to dissolution, ca. 2004. Dissolution records, 2001-2004.