AOUW - Ancient Order of United Workmen is what turns up on a web
search.
        A search for OUAM turned up a "parade ribbon" for sale, the picture
of it shows a Masonic symbol, so that may help a little in your search.

Sharon A. Pullen, C.A.
Archivist
Office of the County Clerk
Historic Documents Library
310 Center Drive
Riverhead, NY 11901-3392

Phone: 631-852-2015
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lester Hendrix [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 11:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: AOUW and OUAM lodges


Dear History List:
Late 19th-century Cohoes city directories list a Cohoes City Lodge, A.O.U.W.
and an Abraham Lincoln Council, No.7, O.U.A.M, under miscellaneous
non-Masonic lodges, along with a G.A.R. post. Does anyone know what
organizations the AOUW and OUAM may be, or of a reference list of the
extinct 19th century lodges and fraternal organizations? If there is no such
list, we could start compiling one as a group effort.

Lester Hendrix, Editor,
Schoharie County Historical Review