Biographies of the Original Members of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter
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THE STORY OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER OF PHI GAMMA DELTA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. A BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL HISTORY FROM THE VISION OF THE CHAPTER’S FIVE FOUNDERS IN 1870 TO THE CHAPTER’S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE IN 1890 TO ITS TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO GEORGIA’S CAMPUS 75 YEARS LATER BROTHERS OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER OF THE FRATERNITY OF PHI GAMMA DELTA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA IN 1884. 1 A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE EARLY MEMBERS OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER OF PHI GAMMA DELTA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FROM 1870 UNTIL 1890 egun with the commemoration of the 135th anniversary of the 1871 chartering of the Kappa Deuteron chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at The University of Georgia and now on the cusp of the chapter’s 50th anniversary of its third re- chartering in 1968- the parent fraternity founded in 1848 - and intended to correct and supplant any previous writings on this subject Bby the compiler and C. Clay Stoddard, Jr., and specifically to serve as an update and to supplant to the book “Persevering Sturdily: The History of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, 1871- 1998,” published by Joseph T. Fleming and C. Clay Stoddard, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia, 1998, Library of Congress catalog card number 98-207830. By Joseph T. Fleming (Georgia 1985) [email protected] Atlanta, Georgia. Updated April 21, 2016. 273 pages. WORKING DRAFT - WILL BE ABRIDGED BEFORE PUBLICATION CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS GRATEFUL RECEIVED. Gray, Arthur Henry Griggs, Jr., Asa Wesley Harbin, Robert Maxwell Harbin, Thomas Witherspoon INDEX of Because many of the earliest records of the Harman, Charles Edward Hawes, William Mosely BIOGRAPHICAL original Georgia chapter of Phi Gamma Head, William Matthew SKETCHES Delta have been lost over the past 140 Hill, Burwell Meriwether Hill, John James Adams, Percy Hoyle years, students who joined the Kappa Hodges, Walter Lee Anderson, James William Deuteron Chapter at The University of Illges, George Arden Andrews, Daniel Marshall Jenkins, Alexander Stephens Antony, Edwin Le Roy Georgia between 1871 and 1890 are listed Jones, William Edgar Barnett, Osborne Stone by the year of graduating class - with the Kennon, Benning Moore Berner, Robert Leigh Kennon, William Augustus Bussey, Henry Clay exception of the five founders of the Kimbrough, Beloved Pace Carlton, James Moore original Georgia chapter, who were Lamar, Lavoisier Ledran Ca(r)son, Howard A. McGough, Robert Carson Cason, Robert Augustus initiated in Athens, Georgia, on April 3, McKenney, Benjamin Ivy Clark, Rufus Brown 1871. McNeer, Robert Edmund Lee Cobb, William Henry Means, William Lane Cody, Emmett Moye, Allen Pettit Coleman, Jr., Benjamin Franklin The “Second Founders” of the Kappa Moye, Robert Leiden Cousins, William Richard Myers, James Mackie Camelious Deuteron Chapter, who resurrected the Perry, John Philip* Crane, William Moore chapter on August 26, 1884, are also listed Pitts, Logan Robert Crittenden, Hiram Oscar Pope, Frederick Ball Crittenden, Zacharias Albert by initiation/chartering date. Pope, Nathaniel Hunter Dearing, Jr., Alfred Long Reaves, Sidney Powell Dearing, Llewellyn Spotswood Redd, William Anderson Dixon, Jr., William Benjamin Within graduating classes, members are Reid, Samuel Alonzo Evans, John Robert listed in alphabetical order. Reid, William Dennis Goree, Churchill Pomeroy It should be noted that in many classes continued during this period, fewer than half of each class persisted from 2 matriculation to graduation. Many students left JUMP DIRECTLY TO BIOGRAPHIES before graduation because of illness, INDEX of family needs, to begin careers, to transfer schools and for other reasons. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Also, I have elected to include and identify the names of the children and Robison, Samuel Benton grandchildren of the first 73 members of Kappa Deuteron (when known) Strickland, Howell Cobb Talmadge, Charles Allen in hopes that at some point in the future the chapter may more easily Tate, Ora Eugene re-unite itself with the descendants of these pioneering Phi Gamma Terry, Jr., Carlisle Threadcraft, Francis Lee Deltas – jtf. Wade, Edward Ingersoll Wade, Eugene Washburn Wade, Peyton Lisby The shared aspirations of five young men at The University of Georgia 144 Walker, Henry Bradford years ago have brought forth one of the premier chapters in all of Phi Walton, Robert Irvin Gamma Delta, and perhaps the most distinguished and heralded of any Waters, Glen Watkins, Edgar /Word/ fraternity at any time at The University of Georgia. Whipple, Ulysses Virgil Whipple, William Holliman Williams, James Richard Indeed, to date, no other chapter of Phi Gamma Delta has been honored Williams, Warren Hafed with more awards, accolades and recognitions than the Kappa Deuteron Worrill, James Harper Wynne, (Jr.), William chapter, winning, for example, the Fraternity’s annual Cheney Cup for the best single chapter more times than any other chapter in the 100 years the * Though John Philip Perry was one of the seven students at award has been given†. And a mountain of hardware for campus and The University to Georgia to community involvement, graduate relations, spiritual programming, petition Phi Gamma Delta in February 1883 for the re- scholarship, etc. establishment of the Kappa Deuteron chapter, he graduated before the charter was † As of May 2015, there are 155 chapters and colonies of received. There is no record the Fraternity in the United States and Canada. that he was ever initiated. In 1890, as the last chapter correspondent wrote in telling the story of Kappa Deuteron at its disappearance in 1890: “We undoubtedly have the cream of the college ... ” Indisputably, the same is true today, almost 125 years later. Though the life of early Kappa Deuteron was cut short at the very young age of just 20 years, its story is one of which every Brother and Graduate Brother of the chapter today can be proud. Since 1871, Kappa Deuteron has been an association of men of rare character and achievement that has shaped the lives 1,500 men for the betterment. jtf. APRIL 21, 2016 ATLANTA, GA 3 ORIGINAL CHARTER FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER OF PHI GAMMA DELTA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA >>> Insert photo of original charter <<< THE FIVE CHAPTER FOUNDERS PETITIONED FRATERNITY IN 1870 – UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTED. BECAME 4TH FRATERNITY ON CAMPUS IN 1871. In 1870, five friends and students at The University of Georgia – two sophomores, two juniors and a senior – came upon the idea formalizing their friendship in the mysteries and secrecy of a Greek-lettered organization and determined to petition The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta specifically for recognition. In September of that year ... Edwin Le Roy Antony, Robert L. Berner, Emmett Cody, Charles Edward Harman, and William Wynne ... signed their names to a letter asking the Grand Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta to favorably consider their request for a charter and pledging themselves to a “sacred observance of all requirements.” Text of letter from Georgia to Phi Gamma Delta: “To the Grand Chapter of .... Fraternity: We, whose names are hereunto affixed, do earnestly desire that you grant a charter for the organization of a chapter at The University of Georgia. We hereby pledge ourselves to a sacred observance of all requirements.” 4 The students soon secured the blessings of the University Chancellor Andrew Lipscomb (pictured) who, on October 25, 1870, wrote the Fraternity supporting their effort to bring Phi Gamma Delta to Georgia. The original letter by Chancellor Lipscomb is now a part of the Fraternity’s Archival Collection in Lexington, Kentucky. PHI GAMMA DELTA FOUNDED IN 1848; 11 OF ITS FIRST 16 CHAPTERS IN THE SOUTH Twenty-two years before the establishment of its Kappa Deuteron chapter, The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta was founded - in 1848 - by six students at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh. Its founders, known to the Fraternity today as “The Immortal Six,” were: John Templeton McCarty, James Elliott, Daniel Webster Crofts, Samuel Beatty Wilson, Ellis Bailey Gregg, and Naaman Fletcher. At their second meeting, on May 1, 1848, the founders of Phi Gamma Delta adopted the Fraternity’s Constitution, and it is this day which has since been recognized as the official date of the Fraternity’s founding. Immediately - in fact at this second meeting - steps were taken to establish “foreign chapters” of the “Delta Association” as it was then called, and in about one month, Beta Chapter at nearby Washington College, six miles away, was installed†. Jefferson College - at the time the third largest college in the U.S. behind Harvard and Princeton - its students were largely from the South - and expansion logically, therefore, took a southern course ... the next four chapters being in Tennessee and North Carolina. “The Fiji Thesaurus,” published as the October 1947 edition of The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, names these chapters as: Gamma Chapter, Nashville University (Tennessee), later merged with Western Military Institute, superseded by Peabody College which later became a part of Vanderbilt University). The Gamma Chapter at Vanderbilt was recently re-chartered in 2011; Delta Chapter, Union University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Delta Chapter) now at Jackson, Tennessee; Epsilon Chapter, University of North Carolina (Epsilon Chapter) and Zeta Chapter, Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee (Zeta Chapter), affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). In fact, eleven of the first 16 chapters of Phi Gamma Delta were in the South. † Alpha Chapter later merged with the nearby Beta Chapter at Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania when the two schools combined following the Civil War to create Washington & Jefferson College, at Washington, Pennsylvania. Another national collegiate fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, was also founded at Jefferson 5 College, four years after Phi Gamma Delta - on February 19, 1852 - the second part of the “Jefferson Duo,” which fraternity later expanded to The University of Georgia on November 20, 1976. Beta Theta Pi preceded Phi Gamma Delta at Jefferson College in 1842, that fraternity founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1839.