Kassidean Knights

The Kassidean Knights was an American fraternal society, formed by Edward A. Guilbert at Dubuque, Iowa in 1880, which claimed to be a revival of the Chasidim, or "Knights of the Temple at Jerusalem", also known as the Essenes. The organisation does not appear to have been long-lived, and Weatherby eventually broke away to form his own Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order by 1892.