James George Smith

James George Smith

James George Smith (1819-1849) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He was never in good health and after graduating from Miami University in 1840, he became a farmer in Powhatan County, Virginia and died on September 16 1849 from what might have been smallpox. He is the only founder of Beta Theta Pi for which a photo does not exist (or yet to be found). Beta Theta Pi founder Samuel Taylor Marshall described Smith as a "...pale, studious, quiet fellow in delicate health."

Other founders of Beta Theta Pi:

*John Reily Knox "1839"
*Samuel Taylor Marshall "1840"
*David Linton "1839"
*Charles Henry Hardin "1841"
*John Holt Duncan "1840"
*Michael Clarkson Ryan "1839"
*Thomas Boston Gordon "1840"

External links

*findagrave|15173076

ource

* Brown, James T., ed., "Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi", New York: 1917.


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