At
nine o'clock on the evening of the eighth day of the eighth
month of the year 1839, eight earnest young men, all students
at Miami University, held the first meeting of Beta Theta
Pi in the hall of the Union Literary Society, an upper room
in the old college building known as "Old Main."
The
eight founders in the order in which their names appear in
the minutes were:
John
Reily Knox, 1839
Samuel Taylor Marshall, 1840
David Linton, 1839
James George Smith, 1840
Charles Henry Hardin, 1841
John Holt Duncan, 1840
Michael Clarkson Ryan, 1839
Thomas Boston Gordon, 1840 "of
ever honored memory"
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