Other associations affiliated with the Order were St. Lukes, the Good Samaritans, the Galilean Fishermen, and the United Brothers of Friendship. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, the head of St. Lukes, established a bank for that order and thus became the first woman in the United States to be the president of such an institution. Raleigh, North Carolina and other parts of the south had similar organizations patterning themselves after Browne's success. In 1910 the bank set up by The True Reformers collapsed and with it the popularity of William Washington Brown. Copyright 1998-1999 by Anita Wills.
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