THE STORY OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER

OF PHI GAMMA DELTA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

FROM THE VISION OF THE FIVE FOUNDERS IN 1870,

TO THE CHAPTER’S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE IN 1890,
AND ITS TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO GEORGIA 75 YEARS LATER

FOUNDED IN SECRECY.

BROTHERS OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER OF

PHI GAMMA DELTA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA IN 1884.
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A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE EARLIEST MEMBERS OF
THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER OF PHI GAMMA DELTA
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FROM 1870 UNTIL 1890

B
egun in conjunction with the commemoration of the 135th anniversary of the 1871
chartering of the original Kappa Deuteron Chapter of The Fraternity of Phi Gamma
Delta at The University of Georgia in 2006 and now - on 50th anniversary of the
chapter’s third re-chartering in 1968 - this latest volume is intended to correct any previous
history on this subject by the compiler and C. Clay Stoddard, Jr., and specifically 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 call number LJ85.P36.

By Joseph T. Fleming (Georgia 1985)

josephtfleming@gmail.com
Atlanta, Georgia. Updated January 10, 2019. 157 pages.

Abridged

INDEX OF The original Phi Gamma Delta Head, William Matthew

Hill, Burwell Meriwether
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Chapter at The University of Hill, John James

Adams, Percy Hoyle

Anderson, James William
Andrews, Daniel Marshall
Antony, Edwin Le Roy
Barnett, Osborne Stone
Berner, Robert Leigh
Bussey, Henry Clay
Carlton, James Moore
Ca(r)son, Howard A. #
Cason, Robert Augustus
Clark, Rufus Brown
Cobb, William Henry
Cody, Emmett
Coleman, Jr., Benjamin Franklin
Cousins, William Richard Camelious
Crane, William Moore
Crittenden, Hiram Oscar
Crittenden, Zacharias Albert
Dearing, Jr., Alfred Long
Dearing, Llewellyn Spotswood
Dixon, Jr., William Benjamin
Evans, John Robert
Goree, Churchill Pomeroy
Gray, Arthur Henry
Griggs, Jr., Asa Wesley
Harbin, Robert Maxwell
Harbin, Thomas Witherspoon
Harman, Charles Edward
Hawes, William Mosely
Georgia is over 145 years old! Hinkle, Albert Butts +
Hodges, Walter Lee
Illges, George Arden
Therefore, it is understandable that many of Jenkins, Alexander Stephens
Jones, William Edgar
its earliest records have been lost.
Kennon, Benning Moore
Kennon, William Augustus
While we believe we have an accurate and Kimbrough, Beloved Pace
Lamar, Lavoisier Ledran
complete list of the 73 Brothers of Kappa McGough, Robert Carson
Deuteron initiated between 1871 and 1890, McKenney, Benjamin Ivy
there are many details of the chapter’s McNeer, Robert Edmund Lee
Means, William Lane
existence that are not available to us today. Moye, Allen Pettit
Moye, Robert Leiden
Myers, James Mackie
[To arrive at the number of 73 initiated Perry, John Philip *
Brothers of the early Kappa Deuteron Pitts, Logan Robert
Pope, Frederick Ball
Chapter, the reported membership of Pope, Nathaniel Hunter
Howard A. Ca(r)son is discounted as it is Reaves, Sidney Powell
Redd, William Anderson
believed that there was no such person at Reid, Samuel Alonzo
The University of Georgia in this time period Reid, William Dennis
Robison, Samuel Benton
and that this name is confused with Brother Strickland, Howell Cobb
Robert Augustus Cason, whose father was Talmadge, Charles Allen
Tate, Ora Eugene
named Hugh Augustus Cason. Terry, Jr., Carlisle
continued
John Philip Perry is also not included on the
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 INDEX OF roster, although he was among those Georgia students whose petition
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES to join Phi Gamma Delta in 1883 was approved; he, however, was never
Threadcraft, Francis Lee
initiated. Included, though, is Albert Butts Hinkle, who the chapter
Wade, Edward Ingersoll specifically reported was initiated into the Fraternity despite the fact no
Wade, Eugene Washburn
Wade, Peyton Lisby
record of his membership has been found in other archival records - jtf]
Walker, Henry Bradford
Walton, Robert Irvin Specific initiation dates, for instance, are generally not available.
Waters, Glen
Watkins, Edgar /Word/ Therefore, members are listed by the year of their graduating class and
Whipple, Ulysses Virgil within these classes, alphabetically. Exceptions include the first Five
Whipple, William Holliman
Williams, James Richard
Founders of the original chapter, who were initiated in Athens, Georgia
Williams, Warren Hafed on April 3, 1871, and the Second Founders of the chapter, who
Worrill, James Harper
Wynne, (Jr.), William
resurrected the chapter on April 26, 1884.

# - Almost certainly the same as Despite inclusion with their class, many students in general and some Phi
Robert Augustus Cason, the result
of transposed information and Gamma Deltas did not persist until their graduation. Some left before
confusion by the Fraternity. graduation because of illness, family needs, to begin their careers, to
* Though John Philip Perry was one
transfer to other schools and for other reasons.
of the seven students at The
University to Georgia to petition Phi 
Gamma Delta in February 1883 for
the re-establishment of the Kappa
Deuteron chapter, he graduated The shared aspirations of five young men at The University of Georgia,
before the charter was received.
There is no record that he was ever
however, almost 150 years ago, have brought forth one of the premier
initiated. chapters in all of Phi Gamma Delta and perhaps the most distinguished
and heralded of any fraternity at any time at The University of Georgia.
+ Albert Butts Hinkle was named as
a duly initiated member of the
Kappa Deuteron Chapter in Indeed, to date, no other chapter of Phi Gamma Delta has been
correspondence to the Grand
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta that
honored with more awards, accolades and recognitions than the Kappa
was written by Brother Peyton Deuteron Chapter, winning, for example, the Fraternity’s annual Cheney
Wade in March of 1884. There is no Cup as the single best Phi Gam chapter more times than any other
other record, however, found in the
International Fraternity archives chapter in the 100 years the award has been given†. [Many collegiate
confirming Hinkle’s membership. fraternities name multiple chapters with their highest recognition; Phi
Gamma Delta selects just one - jtf].

Fourteen times in 43 years [an average of just over once every three years - jtf], Kappa Deuteron was named the
one best chapter of its national Fraternity, including in 1973 (just five years after its charter was restored),
1974, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012 and 2017.

† - As of January 2019, there were 165 chapters and colonies of the Fraternity in the United
States and Canada.

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Just months before the mysterious disappearance of Kappa Deuteron Chapter in 1890, the chapter wrote
the Grand Chapter: “We undoubtedly have the cream of the college ... ” Undoubtedly, the same is
true today.

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

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Deuteron has been an association of men of rare character and achievement that has shaped the lives
almost 1,500 men for their betterment. This collection of biographical sketches of the earliest of our
chapter demonstrates, objectively, how truly remarkable and special these men were.

One of the enduring characteristics of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta has been the
Brothers’ refusal to compare themselves to the other Greek-letter organizations on campus. Simply
stated: Kappa Deuteron “is not like the other fraternities, and we studiously avoid comparing ourselves
to them. The yardstick of our success has been and will continue to be a measurement of where we are
against where we can and could be.”

A graduate working with the newly formed Delta Colony when Kappa Deuteron was revived in 1966
recognized this early on, observing:

“There seems to be a latent and tacit scorn of the ‘prestige’ fraternities on the campus.
To a certain degree, this same attitude seems to exist in an almost total aversion to
being like any other chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.”

What this Fiji graduate saw as a deficiency in the newest Phi Gam chapter is today a badge we wear with
honor, and have for almost five decades. As an early rush brochure proudly proclaimed:

“Phi Gams are different than any other Greeks on campus. The difference lies in the
members, individuals who speak their minds and are satisfied with nothing short of
excellence: Men who share a love for their Fraternity, one another, and mankind.

The difference manifests itself in the record of Phi Gamma Delta at Georgia, a record
that fills all Georgia Fijis with pride. The difference is reflected by the respect with
which Phi Gamma Delta is viewed by its peers, both Greek and non-Greek alike.”

After 50 continuous years of unequaled success, a milestone has again been reached. The time has come
once more to pause and celebrate our accomplishments. In so doing, with love and pride, we hope to
remind future Brothers of our Order of the tremendous legacy that precedes them and to challenge them
to meet and exceed this record.

Today, nearly 1,500 worthy Brothers have been initiated into the mysteries of Georgia’s Kappa
Deuteron Chapter. Each carry with him a part of the Fraternity’s success, forged by our forefathers.
And each has contributed to this legacy. This, then, is their story. This is our story, too.

Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter

Joseph T. Fleming
January 10, 2019
Atlanta, Georgia

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 Copyright © 2019
The Kappa Deuteron Chapter of
The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta
3 Cloverhurst Court, Athens, Georgia 30306

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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 –

ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTED BY THE UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR.

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 became determined to petition The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta for membership.
What brought them together or what led them to decide upon Phi Gamma Delta with which to associate
may never be known. Nonetheless, it is confirmed history that in September of 1870 ...

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.”
To the Grand Chapter of Φ. Γ. Δ. Fraternity:
The students
“We, whose names are hereunto affixed, do earnestly desire that you grant soon secured the
a charter for the organization of a chapter at The University of Georgia. blessings of the
We hereby pledge ourselves to a sacred observance of all requirements.” University
Chancellor
Andrew
Lipscomb who, on October 25, 1870, wrote the Fraternity supporting their effort to bring Phi Gamma

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Delta to Georgia. The correspondence from Chancellor Lipscomb is now a part of the Fraternity’s
Archival Collection in Lexington, Kentucky. The letter to William H. Clark - a founder of the Phi
Gamma Delta chapter at the City College of New York and an 1869 graduate of that school - was a
member of Phi Gamma Delta’s Grand Chapter and later the Fraternity’s Grand Chapter President, and
reads:

“In reply to yours of 20th inst., I beg to say that the young men to whom you allude are
students of good character and position in the University.”

Whether Clark or Lipscomb initiated the correspondence is not entirely clear.

Between September of 1870 and early November of that year, the Grand Chapter initially rejected the
Georgians’ request for a charter, citing “a lack of information.” Indeed, Wynne’s letter, if that’s all
upon which the Grand Chapter had to base their decision, contained no specific information on the
individuals who had signed the petition for a charter and no information regarding the state of the
University. Perhaps it was Chancellor Andrew Lipscomb’s letter of October 1870 that eventually gave
legitimacy and weight to the group’s request and confidence to the Fraternity.

A few weeks after Christmas of 1870 - on January 19, 1871 - the Grand Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta,
meeting in New York City, approved the request for a chapter at Georgia.

The hopes and aspirations of five students in Athens had been finally realized: The White Star of Phi
Gamma Delta soon would shine over Athens, Georgia.

The Fraternity appointed Thomas Bolin Cox, who joined Phi Gamma Delta in 1858 at its Mu Chapter at
Howard College, Alabama [now Samford University in Birmingham - jtf] to deliver the charter to
Athens and initiate the new Phi Gamma Deltas. In his college days, Cox had continued his education at
the University of Virginia where he became president of the Omicron chapter and later served in the
Confederate Army during The Civil War. At the time of his appointment by the Grand Chapter as
Legate, he was a lawyer practicing in Macon, Georgia. Some sources have identified him as a “founder”
of Baylor University in Waco, Texas [for example, “Herringshaw’s American Blue-Book of American
Biography: Living Americans,” Americans Publishers’ Association, Chicago, 1914, p. 251.]



KAPPA DEUTERON would become the 17th active chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and, despite the
Fraternity’s initial and rapid expansion into the South, was at its founding, one of only four then-
operational chapters in the South [the other three were at Cumberland College at Lebanon, Tennessee,
Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and Roanoke College at Salem, Virginia. [The chapter at
Hampden-Sydney was chartered about a month before Kappa Deuteron and, ironically, both were re-
chartered in 1966, after decades of absence on their respective campus - jtf]

Of the first five chapters of Phi Gamma Delta established, four were in the South [at Vanderbilt, North
Carolina, Alabama and Baylor - jtf.]

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Kappa Deuteron Chapter also would also become the fourth Greek-letter fraternity at The
University of Georgia.

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OF PHI GAMMA DELTA AND IT’S ALMOST IMMEDIATE SOUTHERN EXPANSION

T
he fraternity to which the Georgia men pledged their allegiance, Phi Gamma Delta, had
been established at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1848, about 20
miles southwest of Pittsburgh, a school with Calvinism in its genes. Although a school on
the frontier edge of American westward expansion, Jefferson was no backwoods school.
Founded in 1802, its antecedents date to 1787 and before.

In the year of the Fraternity’s founding, 1848, Jefferson’s graduating class of 56 students was about the
same of its peer institutions at the time: Princeton in New Jersey, for example, graduated 76
undergraduates that year, Harvard 62 [src: “A Not-So-Small College,” published in The Jefferson
College Times, March 1993, by James T. Herron, Jr.] By 1858, Jefferson College was the fourth
largest institution of higher learning in the country; the three largest being Harvard, Princeton and
Yale, according to James T. Herron, Jr., The Jefferson College Times, published by the Jefferson
College Historical Society, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, May 1977. Its leaders and founders were a men
who graduated from what is now Princeton University, then the College of New Jersey.

Herron also notes that Jefferson College attracted a sizeable number of students from the American
South:

“For decades southern students had come north to attend Jefferson College ...”

Helen Turnbull Waite Coleman, in her book “Banners in the Wilderness: Early Years of Washington &
Jefferson College,” published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1956, p.
82 writes:

“Southern farmers increasingly became Southern planters who could and wanted to
educate their sons [in the most prestigious schools of the North ...]

Jefferson ... had attracted some Southern students [and] began to attract more ...”

William Raimond Baird, the author of the original, definitive encyclopedia of college fraternities,
“Baird’s Manual of American College Fraternities,” wrote in the book’s 9th edition, published in 1920
and originally published in 1879, p. 255:

“The patronage of Jefferson College being largely from southern states, it was natural
that the establishment of new chapters [of Phi Gamma Delta] should be in the south ...”

Federally funded road improvements to Colonial wagon trails and foot paths made access to Jefferson
College more accessible to students in Virginia and other southern states.

Although none of the “Immortal Six” [founders] were born in the South, when the fraternity decided to
establish what they called “foreign chapters” on other campuses, expansion took a decidedly southern
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course.

After the founding of the Fraternity at Jefferson, a few months later, Beta Chapter was extended to
Washington College, less than 12 miles away. Thereafter, the next four chapters were in the Deep
South.

In fact, eight of the Fraternity’s next ten chapters after Alpha and Beta were in the Old South ...

T
hree in Tennessee, two in Alabama, one in Mississippi, one in North
Carolina and one in Texas, including chapters at the University of North
Carolina (1851), the University of Alabama (1855), Ole Miss (1855) and Baylor
University (1856), and all established before the Fraternity was eight-years-old.

By 1871, Phi Gamma Delta chapters could be found at other prominent Southern colleges
such as The University of Georgia, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Virginia
and Washington & Lee.

In 1883, during a debate concerning the location that the fraternity’s Grand Chapter (or headquarters)
should choose for its permanent location, one Brother noted “ ... the fraternity is Western and
Southern chiefly ... ” [“Western,” by the standards of that time, would be the Midwestern frontier:
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, for example - jtf.]

In 1865, 17 years after the founding of Phi Gamma Delta, Jefferson College and Washington College
would merge to become Washington & Jefferson College, located in the Washington, Pennsylvania.



FIRST PHI GAM IN GEORGIA

The first Phi Gamma Delta in the State of Georgia was James Woodrow (Jefferson 1849), the 14th
member of the Fraternity, initiated into the fraternity in its first month of existence at Jefferson
College, and uncle of future President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. A native of Carlisle,
England, Dr. Woodrow - later also an ordained Presbyterian minister - joined the faculty of Oglethorpe
University in near Milledgeville, Georgia in 1853. The school was chartered by the State in 1835 as a
Presbyterian-sponsored institution and named after the English founder of the Georgia Colony, James
Edward Oglethorpe.

Woodrow was appointed as Professor of Chemistry, Geology, and Natural Philosophy at The University
of Georgia in 1856 to succeed Professor Joseph LeConte but did not accept the offer. In 1891,
Woodrow was elected the President of South Carolina College at Columbia, South Carolina, now the
University of South Carolina. Woodrow College at the University of South Carolina, a residence hall, is
named in his honor.

The Civil War caused the end of Oglethorpe, though it was briefly brought back to life in downtown
Atlanta in 1870 only to close two years later. In 1913, the school was resurrected again near the
Brookhaven neighborhood of northeastern Atlanta near Lenox Square and remains in existence to this
day, although there is no chapter of Phi Gamma Delta on its campus.

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The Black Diamond and the White Star of Phi Gamma Delta first appeared publicly at The University
of Georgia on May 7, 1871, following chartering a month earlier:

“The badges of new Brothers of Phi Gamma Delta in Athens were first “swung” [shown
or worn publicly for the first time - jtf] on campus on May 7, 1871.”

- “The History of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity,” by Walter Benjamin Palmer (Emory
1877), published by Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, printed by George Banta Publishing
Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1906, p. 305.

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UGA AND THE CIVIL WAR

Inculcated in the hearts of the Five Founders was abiding an optimistic and idealism, rising from the
plunder and ash of the Civil War. The War, which had devastated their lives and the lives of their
families and communities, was but five years history. In fact, the state of Georgia had only been re-
admitted to the Union two months before - when, on July 15, 1870, William Wynne wrote the Grand
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta seeking membership.

At the time of their petition in 1870, fewer than 100 men were enrolled at The University of Georgia.
Organized college football would not arrive in Athens for another year after Phi Gamma Delta’s
departure, first fielding a team in 1891. The telephone had not yet been invented (1876) nor the light
bulb (1879). Sixty days before Kappa Deuteron was chartered, the Fifteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution was ratified outlawing any law that prohibited preventing “a citizen the right to vote
based on that citizen’s race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

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JUST 5 YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ENDED, KAPPA DEUTERON BORN

Casualties during the War had been staggering, the Southern economy had collapsed, homes and
businesses had been burned or destroyed, and now Southerners faced the “indignation of occupation” by
their adversary and the seemingly impossible task of rebuilding, Reconstruction. Railroads, roads and
bridges had been destroyed, fires had consumed cities, and banks, if opened at all, had nothing but now-
worthless Confederate currency. Food, crops and cattle also had been confiscated or burned or pillaged.

The Civil War killed more Americans than any other conflict, ever - and by far and ever since. Two-
and-a-half percent of the U.S. population died, approximately the same as 7 million today, 504 deaths
per day.

The University of Georgia itself was closed for two-and-a-half years, from October 1863 until January
1866 (src: “A Historical Sketch of the University of Georgia,” by Augustus Longstreet Hull, published
by Foote & Davies Company, 1894, p. 73). Buildings on campus were converted to barracks and for
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other uses by the Confederates.

As an illustration of the impact, of The University’s Class of 1860, 52 of the 86 students enlisted and
fought for the South; twelve were killed, according to Thomas Walter Reed in his book, “History of the
University of Georgia.”

“... (I)n 1863, the city of Athens was virtually ‘depopulated’ of its male citizens,”
according to Annals of Athens, Georgia, 1801-1901, by Augustus Longstreet Hull, 1906,
p. 268.

One senior remained enrolled in 1863 before the school shut down. About 125,000 Georgians had
accepted the call to battle; nearly 20,000 died. Approximately 700 students from The University of
Georgia fought and of those, almost 15 percent or about 105 perished (src: Reed, p. 21).

THIS is the desperate and desolate backdrop upon which Kappa Deuteron was founded.

In January of 1866, The University of Georgia re-opened with an enrollment of about 78 students and
seven members on the faculty, according to “The History of Georgia,” by Robert Preston Brooks,
Atkinson, Mentzer, 1913, p. 349. By comparison, in 1966, when Kappa Deuteron was re-colonized, a
little more than 2,500 students were enrolled. Today, more than 36,000 undergraduate and graduate
students are registered.

The University of Georgia Class of 1871 began its journey with 101 students, though only 53 remained
until graduation. It was a class composed of a number of important Georgians, many destined for
distinguished legacies in the state’s history. A year after Kappa Deuteron’s chartering, in 1872, The
University saw its enrollment grow to about 318 students. With the sale of federal land under the
Morrill Act, the University also began its College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts.

PHI GAM AND THE CIVIL WAR

The War, though, not only abruptly ended a period of growth and popularity of fraternities in general
and Phi Gamma Delta specifically but it also took a heavy toll on universities and colleges throughout
the South. Many other schools also closed during the War, some forever. According to The Phi Gamma
Delta publication of April 1916:

“Eight of our Southern chapters were killed by the War: those at Union University
(Tennessee), North Carolina, Alabama, Baylor, Howard [Alabama - now Samford],
Bethel (Kentucky), Virginia and Kentucky.”

As for Phi Gamma Delta nationally, more than 370 Brothers of The Fraternity, fighting for the
Union or the Confederacy lost their lives, according to the Fraternity’s distinguished Historian
Towner Blackstock.

It wasn’t until after The War - when young men returned from the battlefield to the classroom - that The
University of Georgia re-opened and Greek-letter fraternities again began to ignite the imaginations and
interest of students in Athens and at other campuses and the country.
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THUS, THE 5 FOUNDERS OF KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER IN 1871 WERE:
• EDWIN LE ROY ANTONY returned to his native Georgia from Texas to attend The University
of Georgia. After graduation, Antony went back to Texas where he was an accomplished
attorney, was elected to the United States Congress and later became an ordained minister of
the Baptist church. Antony was the grandson of the founder of the Medical College of
Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, Dr. Milton Antony. A champion debater, Brother Antony was a
sophomore when Kappa Deuteron was chartered, and he later served as the chapter’s third
president.

• ROBERT LEE BERNER, a senior in 1871, when Kappa Deuteron Chapter was founded, he was
the chapter’s first president and born in Jasper County, Georgia. His family later moved to
Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia when he was a young man, and he later to Atlanta and
then to Macon, Georgia.

A celebrated lawyer and gifted orator, Berner rose quickly in politics and
law to become one of the best-known and respected leaders in the
state. A four-term member of the state House of Representatives, he was
elected president of the state Senate as a freshman member of that
body in 1890, an unheard of accomplishment. Two years later, he ran for
the U.S. Congress, losing by one vote. Berner ran for governor in 1898,
finishing second in the Democratic primary. For his many achievements
and years of public service, the town of Berner, Georgia, was named in his
honor.

• EMMETT CODY, sophomore (Class of 1873), of Cusseta, Chattahoochee County, Georgia,

who died too young, at the age of 24.

• CHARLES EDWARD HARMAN, of Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia, a junior when Phi
Gamma Delta was established at Georgia, he later settled in Atlanta and became a prominent
Atlanta businessman, railroad executive, Atlanta city councilman and civic leader. He
married the daughter of George Washington Scott, a Colonel in the Confederate Army who,
in post-war Florida, was elected Governor but who was not allowed to be seated by the
occupying federal forces and who later was the founder of Agnes Scott College, Decatur,
Georgia.

Ninety-six years after Harman signed his name to the letter desiring membership in Phi
Gamma Delta, his grandson, Charles Edward Harman III, joined the 1968-re-chartered
Kappa Deuteron chapter.

• WILLIAM WYNNE, a junior of Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia (that city and county
being one of the major centers of commerce in the state at the time) was a long-time,
prominent and admired jurist. He is the author of the 1870 letter from Athens to the Grand
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and also served as chapter president.
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ORDER OF ESTABLISHMENT OF FRATERNITIES AT GEORGIA

❶ SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON, DECEMBER 31, 1865,

❷ CHI PHI, APRIL 16, 1867,
❸ KAPPA ALPHA, 1869/JUNE 21, 1872†,
❹ PHI GAMMA DELTA, APRIL 3, 1871, and
❺ PHI DELTA THETA, JUNE 5, 1871.

The charter for the establishment of the Phi Gamma Delta chapter at The University of Georgia was
received in Athens on April 3, 1871, that charter having earlier been approved at a meeting of the
Fraternity’s Grand Chapter in New York on January 19, 1871.

Thus, Kappa Deuteron became the fourth of the Greek-lettered “secret societies” on the Athens
campus.

THE FIRST THREE AT UGA: SAE, CHI PHI AND KA

Comprehensive histories of Greek-lettered college fraternities in America can be readily found

elsewhere, but most trace the current college fraternity to Phi Beta Kappa (Φιλοσοφία Βίου
Κυβερνήτης), founded as a college, social fraternity on December 5, 1776 at the College of William &
Mary. After its secrets were exposed, Phi Beta Kappa became an honorary and scholastic-based
organization recognizing the most prestigious students on the campuses at which they are established.

In so far as The University of Georgia is concerned, the following three fraternities preceded Phi
Gamma Delta:

• First - The Georgia Beta chapter of SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON was established at The University of
Georgia on New Year’s Eve 1865, according to the fraternity’s history, when members of SAE’s
Georgia Pi chapter at Georgia Military Institute of Marietta, Georgia, returning from the War,
found their school destroyed and as a result transferred to Athens. The Georgia Beta chapter was
the 16th chapter of its fraternity and the first established after the Civil War.

SAE was founded at The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama on March 9,

1855 - the first national fraternity established in the Deep South. The UGA chapter is
credited with “saving” its national fraternity, which in its early years, had limited itself to
campuses only in the South. As a result of the War, most of the 15 existing SAE chapters
had closed. The fraternity states: “It was the founding of the University of Georgia
chapter and the University of Virginia chapter at the end of 1865 that led to the
fraternity's revival.” Of the 400 members of SAE at the beginning of the Civil War, 369
went to War, according to its national fraternity.

I
t has long been acknowledged as a matter of fact and history that the true
founder of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was Phi Gamma Delta’s John Mason
Martin (1837-1898), who in 1879 made public his earlier collegiate plans
devised in the summer of 1854 to create a “new fraternity” at Alabama that he
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had named “Phi Alpha.”

That year, Martin also had corresponded with Phi Gamma Delta about founding a
chapter of that Fraternity in Tuscaloosa. While deciding whether or not to begin the
new fraternity he had contemplated, he received correspondence from Phi Gamma
Delta approving his request to begin at chapter at Alabama. Martin elected to join
Phi Gamma Delta and gave up his plans to found Phi Alpha. As a result, Theta
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta was chartered on May 11, 1855.

The ritual, the constitution and the bylaws Martin had written, he states he then
gave to a friend and fellow student at Alabama, Noble Leslie DeVotie, who had
been turned down by the Phi Gams for membership. DeVotie then started his own
fraternity armed with the writings and plans Martin had devised. The name of the
fraternity envisioned by Brother Martin before gaining admission into Phi Gamma
Delta, “Phi Alpha,” stills plays an important role for SAE members as it appears on
their badge and is used as a greeting among its members.

Devotie - valedictorian of his class in 1856 - was later pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Selma, Alabama and the first Alabama soldier to die in the Civil War when
he drowned in while in service in 1861 at Fort Morgan, Alabama.

Martin wrote in 1879: “I was just then beginning my junior year at the University
and had devoted much of my time, during the summer vacation, to the preparation
of a constitution and by-laws for a society, which I proposed to establish, to be
known as the ‘Phi Alpha Fraternity.’ Digressing for a moment, I might say that when
I abandoned this purpose and sought admission to our own Fraternity, I gave the
manuscript (familiar to myself only) to a fellow student who afterwards was one of
the founders of the ‘Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity’ and have reason to believe that
I am the true author of their Constitution ... ‘

The Alabama Phi Gamma Delta chapter ceased to exist just a few years later when
the University banned Greek-lettered fraternities but it was re-established in 1876.
The chapter folded again in 1879, when the school decided again to prohibit its
students from joining secret Greek-lettered fraternities. Theta Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta was brought back to life in 1901 and has since remained one of the
most prominent chapters of any fraternity at the University of Alabama.

Brother Martin later transferred to and graduated from Centre College in Danville,
Kentucky in 1856, following an altercation with a fellow student who had insulted
his sister.

Martin would later be helpful in the restoration of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter at
The University of Georgia in 1884, urging the Grand Chapter to re-charter in Athens
after Phi Gamma Delta and the other fraternities at Georgia had been banned from
campus.

Martin was a member of the Alabama state Senate from 1871-1876, during which
time he was also President Pro Temp, and was a professor at the University of
Alabama from 1875-1886 and later Dean of the Alabama Law School. Martin helped
established the University of Alabama School of Law in 1872. He was elected to the
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 United States Congress and served from March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1887.

A pretty credible source for his account of the founding of Phi Gamma Delta and
Sigma Alpha Epsilon!

As early as 1852 - three years before the formation of the Phi Gamma Delta chapter at Alabama,
the faculty began to agitate again fraternities. Eventually, fraternities were banned by the
University of Alabama from 1856-1876, during which period, in the early part of the ban of
Greek-lettered organizations, Phi Gamma Delta may have operated sub rosa. “The faculty
alternatively encouraged and frowned upon these groups but was powerless to keep them from
forming.”

Three years later, students again were prohibited from joining fraternities in 1879 until 1885,
when, according to the “History of the University of Alabama,” v. 1, 1818-1902, by James B.
Sellers, Professor of History at the University of Alabama, published by the University of
Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1953, p. 517, “the tide in favor of fraternities was
running too strongly to be ignored ...”

During the ban, students were required to sign their names to the following pledge:

“I do further pledge myself, with honor, that I will not, so long as I am a

student of the University, either in term time or vacation ... without
permission of the Faculty [join or form] ... any secret club, society,
fraternity ... or wear the badge of any secret organization.” Again, in 1888,
a resolution was offered to kill fraternities but was offered to instruct the
administration and faculty to “discourage” membership in secret
fraternities.

• Second - Eta chapter of the Southern Order of CHI PHI planted its flag on the banks of the
Oconee River on April 16, 1867. Alpha chapter of Chi Phi Southern Order was founded August
21, 1858 at The University of North Carolina and was one of three different Chi Phi-branded
fraternities that later merged in 1874. The original Chi Phi Society (Princeton Order) is
acknowledged as the third Greek-lettered fraternity and the oldest existing social fraternity in the
nation; it was founded at Princeton University on Christmas Eve of 1824. Eta chapter claims it
“has produced more Governors of the state of Georgia, more presidents of the University, and
more captains of the football team than any other fraternity” at Georgia.

• Third - The Order of KAPPA ALPHA installed its Gamma chapter in Athens in 1869† when
transfer students from the Alpha chapter at Washington University at Lexington, Virginia, which
institution, in 1870, after death of Robert E. Lee, was re-named Washington & Lee University.

† - The charter for the Georgia chapter of KA, however, wasn’t

received in Athens until June 21, 1872, according to “The History and
Catalogue of The Kappa Alpha Fraternity,” Nashville, Tennessee, 1891,
p. 35. Nonetheless, the Athens KAs count themselves as the third chapter
of the order of “God and Women,” following W&L and Virginia Military
Institute (VMI). KA was founded originally as Phi Kappa Chi on
December 21, 1865 at Washington University, Lexington, Virginia.

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THE FOURTH: PHI GAMMA DELTA (on which this article is focused)

THE FIFTH FRATERITY AT GEORGIA: PHI DELTA THETA

TWO MONTHS AFTER PHI GAMMA DELTA,

the Georgia Beta chapter of PHI DELTA THETA
became the University’s fifth fraternity when it was
chartered on June 5, 1871; it was re-named
Georgia Alpha in 1880 after the original Georgia
Alpha at Oglethorpe University in Milledgeville,
Georgia closed following The Civil War. In 2016,
Georgia Alpha won their fraternity’s Harvard
Award as the most outstanding Phi Delta Theta
chapter at a “large institution.”
Pandora, 1890
A remarkable four Phi Delta Theta chapters sprung
up in the state of Georgia in just seven months!
First at Oglethorpe, second at Georgia and third at Emory University ten days later in 1871, and a few
months later at Mercer in Macon on January 3, 1872, three of which continue to this day.

Phi Delta Theta was founded at Miami University in Ohio on December 26, 1848.

W hile Chancellor Andrew Lipscomb enthusiastically endorsed Phi Gamma

Delta’s expansion to The University of Georgia, he refused to similarly
support Phi Delta Theta’s bid, though the Georgia Phi Delts persisted with
their plans to establish a chapter at Georgia:

Lipscomb in response to Phi Delta Theta:

There are several secret societies already in existence here.

I regret that I cannot comply with your wishes but I do not
think it advisable to consent to the organization of any new
society of the kind.

“The History of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity,” by Walter

Benjamin Palmer, published by G. Banta publishing
Company, 1906, p. 305.

F
or a number of years, The Pandora - the student yearbook at Georgia - gave Phi Delta
Theta’s local founding as January 6, 1871 and later issues as April 10, 1871 but the source
of these dates is unknown and in conflict with Phi Delta Theta’s own official publications,
including “The Catalogue of The Phi Delta Theta Fraternity,” sixth edition, editors, Eugene
Henry Lewis Randolph and Frank Dugan Swope, published by Phi Delta Theta, 1894, p. 1551 and
“The History of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity,” by Palmer, published by Phi Delta Theta
fraternity, both which state that Georgia Alpha was founded on June 5, 1871. “The History of
the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity,” by Palmer states specifically: “The older fraternities at Georgia
were ΣΑΕ, ΧΦ, ΚΑ and Φ.Γ.Δ.”
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The next five/six Greek-lettered-fraternities in Athens, Georgia were:

❻ SIGMA CHI, DECEMBER 2, 1872,

❼ SIGMA NU, 1873 and again in 1884,
❽ ALPHA TAU OMEGA, DECEMBER 9, 1878,
❾ DELTA TAU DELTA, JUNE 11, 1882,

ZETA CHI+, 1889, and

+ - A fraternity, which was known as Zeta Chi, was on campus at least by 1889. There
is scant information available on this fraternity at this time though the following written
by Kappa Deuteron Brother E. Ingersoll Wade in 1891 in The Athens Evening Ledger in
the summer or fall of 1891:

“The Zeta Chi also has a chapter here but the rites observed in initiation are so grotesque
and peculiar that there are but few additions to its membership rolls.”

Zeta Chi may have been a local fraternity or freshman society. Zeta Chi, first identified
in the 1889 Pandora yearbook of The University of Georgia, is also referenced in the
1901 Pandora: “In [this edition] is chronicled the first Zeta Chi initiation, which has
always been the bane of the freshmen's existence.” The Pandora of 1897 calls Zeta Chi
“a bogus fraternity” and “a hazing club.”

❿ CHI PSI, founded at Schenectady, New York, at Union College, in 1841. Alpha Alpha Delta
chapter at UGA, founded 1890.

⁎ - PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY (like Phi Gamma Delta, was founded at Jefferson College in
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) reported in late winter of 1884 that its “well matured” plans to
establish itself at The University of Georgia had failed to materialize, apparently, it claims,
“denied by the powers of Zeus.”

Had ‘the Gods not intervened’ - jtf, Phi Kappa Psi would have been the tenth fraternity at The
University of Georgia. The two proposed founders of the would-be chapter of Phi Psi at Georgia
were: William Archibald McClean [of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and a member of the Epsilon
chapter of Φ.Κ.Ψ. at Gettysburg in 1878,] a transfer to Georgia, and Henry McAlpin [1860-1931,
of Savannah, Georgia]. The two petitioned Phi Kappa Psi for a charter for a chapter at Georgia in
November 1883. However, not too long later, the two had graduated.

The two prospective founders had recruited another Georgia man to join Phi Psi who,
unfortunately, “accidentally shot himself in the leg” and was not able to return to school. Still
another prospective founder transferred from Georgia to Georgetown University in Washington,
D. C. at his parents’ insistence. (src: The Phi Kappa Psi Shield, Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, April
1884, Gazette Printing Company, Springfield, Ohio, “Fate of Georgia Alpha,” p. 9.)

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 “The History of The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, From Its Foundation in 1852 to Its Fiftieth
Anniversary,” by Charles Liggett Van Cleve, published by Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and printed by
Franklin Printing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1902, p.

“Several times during fifteen years was this extension into Georgia discussed
and several times were charters granted, but for a considerable time nothing
came of the efforts of the fraternity ... Finally, in the fall of 1882, more than
twenty years after the first attempts at establishment had been made, the
ambassador commissioned to establish the chapter started upon his mission. A
series of catastrophes, not necessary to mention here, frustrated his plans, and
Georgia Alpha never began [until it finally was chartered at Georgia in 1979 -
jtf.]”

In the end, there was just no one left to carry the Phi Psi effort forward at UGA.

“To fail is at all times miserable, but to confess failure is torture.” Prospective
founder McClean blamed Phi Kappa Psi for their failed endeavor, charging the
Grand Chapter of Φ.Κ.Ψ. ‘with shameful negligence and disregard of the
interests of the fraternity towards us ...’ Months and months of
correspondence with the Grand Chapter of Phi Psi met without response or
recognition.” Finally, in May of 1884, a charter had been approved, but by then
it was too late.

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During this period in Georgia’s history, at two other students at The University of Georgia were
member of fraternities not established at Georgia (Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Delta Phi,
for example) yet there appears to be no effort by their members or their fraternities to capitalize
on their presence. Many, many years later, in 1995, a chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon was
formed at Georgia, largely by members of the members of the Georgia chapter of Sigma Phi
Epsilon, which had its charter revoked by its national fraternity and which been kicked-off
campus by the University. The Beta Delta chapter of DKE was short-lived.

In addition, members of the Georgia faculty - including Professor John Pendleton Campbell,
[Beta Theta Pi at Johns Hopkins, 1885) and the University’s Chancellor himself, William
Ellison Boggs, [Phi Kappa Psi at South Carolina College, 1859) - could have used their
leadership positions to steer a chapter of their respective fraternities to Athens. If they did, there
is no fruit to demonstrate it. [Insofar as Beta is concerned, almost 100 years after Professor
Campbell joined the faculty, Epsilon Epsilon was chartered in 1984 - jtf]

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THE MYSTIC SEVEN AT GEORGIA, 1846

T
wenty years before the establishment of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Georgia, another secretive
college fraternity was organized by students in Athens: the Temple of the Skull and Bones of
the Mystic Seven [sometimes stylized “Mystical Seven.”] The Mystic Seven was founded in
1837 at Wesleyan College, Middletown, Connecticut and its local branch at Georgia in July
1846. Unlike its contemporaries, the fraternity used the Hebrew language in its nomenclature and
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mottos instead of Greek.

The “Mystic Seven” at Georgia ceased to exist before the Civil War for reasons that are not known. A
number of Mystic Temples that survived the Civil War later merged with Beta Theta Pi in 1890. An
interesting history by Karl Wood Fischer, “The Mystics and Beta Theta Pi,” was published in 1940. The
Mystics are credited as the founders of the first collegiate secret society in the South (Baird).

FRATERNITIES AT GEORGIA AND THE LITERARY SOCIETIES:

NEW GREEK-LETTER RIVALS VIEWED WITH SUSPICION

A
t the establishment of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter, literary societies held great influence
among the students at The University of Georgia - the Demosthenian Society, founded in
1803, and the Phi Kappa Society in 1820 - much as the Franklin Literary Society and Philo
dominated the campus at Jefferson College 23 years earlier when the “Immortal Six” were
inspired to found Phi Gamma Delta. It was a familiar scenario: two literary societies vying for
membership on many college campuses and later engaged in a terrific rivalry with the Greek-lettered
secret, societies.

The literary societies focused their attention on debate, discussion and readings. According to Baird’s
Manual of American College Fraternities, by William Raimond Baird, 1879, some were secret, some
were not. Universally “encouraged by the faculty,” membership in literary societies was sometimes
even required by their host institutions.

About the time the Black Diamond of Phi Gamma Delta first appeared at The University of Georgia, a
member of one of the literary societies declared that the campus was now divided into three classes,
according to “College Life in the Old South,” The University of Georgia, by Professor E. Merton
Coulter, The Macmillan Company, 1928, pp. 271-2:

“1st, Secret Societies, who wear badges different from the literary societies; who meet at
night in some dark alley or out house and whose object is known only to themselves;

2nd, Boot Lickers, who are supposed to be hugging and squeezing the Secret Society
men for admission into their organizations; and

3rd, Anti-Secret Society, who oppose Secret Societies inasmuch as we believe that they
unavoidably tend to partisan advancement, regardless of actual merit; that they introduce
distrust and enmity, discord and strife where no such feeling should exist; and that they
are instruments of oppression to the other students.”

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CHANCELLOR LIPSCOMB, A FRIEND OF THE FRATERNITIES, RETIRES.

THE UNIVERSITY’S NEXT CHANCELLOR WOULD BAN GREEK FRATERNITIES.

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A
t the end of the school year of 1874, Chancellor Lipscomb announced his retirement,
ending his 14 years of service as the leader of The University. Chancellor Lipscomb
generally had been on friendly terms with established Greek-letter organizations and had
personally and specifically commended the original Five Founders of Kappa Deuteron to
Phi Gamma Delta’s Grand Chapter in 1870 in their petition to establish Phi Gamma Delta
at Georgia.

His newly appointed successor, Rev. Henry Holcombe Tucker, would prove to be much, much less
friendly to the fraternities, actually antagonistic and hostile to their existence, advocating and eventually
implementing a ban on fraternities. Tucker, a native of Warren County, Georgia, was also editor of The
Christian Index, founded in 1822 in Washington, D. C. and which later was headquartered in Georgia
where it became a publication of the Georgia Baptist Convention.

As Chancellor Lipscomb was leaving office, it was becoming clear that a battle over the utility
and benefit of fraternities was at hand. The University of Georgia’s Board of Trustees passed a
resolution urging that the Chancellor “require each student on application for matriculation to
sign a pledge to join no secret society other than the Demosthenian and Phi Kappa societies.”
Lipscomb’s successor, Rev. Tucker, would implement such as rule.

The University of Georgia and Chancellor Tucker were not alone in this era in prohibiting students from
joining a fraternity: Alabama, Davidson, Howard College [Alabama - now Samford University - jtf],
Illinois, Louisiana, Mercer, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Princeton, South Carolina, Virginia,
Virginia Military Academy, Wake Forest and Wofford were among other institutions similarly banning
fraternities.

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TIMELINE OF KAPPA DEUTERON OF PHI GAMMA DELTA
KAPPA DEUTERON IS BORN, 1871!

1869 - THREE OF THE “FIVE FOUNDERS” OF KAPPA DEUTERON ENROLL AT THE UNIVERSITY
1869 OF GEORGIA.

1870 1870 - THE CHAPTER’S FOUNDERS WRITE PHI GAMMA DELTA REQUESTING CHARTER.

October 25, 1870 - University Chancellor Lipscomb endorses their petition in a letter on this
1870 date to the Phi Gamma Delta Grand Chapter located in New York.

JANUARY 19, 1871 - KAPPA DEUTERON’S CHARTER IS APPROVED BY THE GRAND CHAPTER.
1871 April 3, 1871 - Chartering and the initiation of the Founders in Athens, Georgia.
May 1871 - Black Diamond badges first appear on campus.

1874 FRATERNITIES BANNED AT GEORGIA IN 1874.

1874 - ALL FRATERNITIES ARE BANNED by University Chancellor Tucker.
1878 - THE BAN ON FRATERNITIES IS REPEALED. Phi Gamma Delta may have existed sub
rosa, but essentially is dead.

1878-1884 - KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER IS NOW DEAD; no new initiates are reported. The
1878 chapter, which shined brightly in its brief initial existence, has been killed by Chancellor
Tucker’s prohibition on fraternities.

1883: ATTEMPT TO RE-CHARTER KAPPA DEUTERON FAILS.

February 14, 1883 - Seven Georgia students request the Fraternity to re-charter Kappa Deuteron. For
lack of information about the school and concerns that the individuals who applied may have
already been initiated by Osborne Stone Barnett, who apparently organized the group, the
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petition was denied less than a month later. Osborne was later the Legate to re-instate
Kappa Deuteron one year later in 1884.

1884: SECOND CHARTERING OF KAPPA DEUTERON.

1884 March 1884 - Another seven Georgia students formally petition the Fraternity to restore
Kappa Deuteron. University Chancellor Patrick Mell writes the Grand Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta to urge the Fraternity’s return to The University of Georgia.

April 26, 1884 - CHARTER RESTORED BY FRATERNITY’S CONVENTION IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

KAPPA DEUTERON MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS FROM CAMPUS.

1890
1890 - Six years after its second chartering, the Chapter mysteriously and abruptly
disappears from campus and remains dormant for more than 75 years. Some theories point
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to the so-called “circus incident” as the reason for the chapter’s demise, presumably that one Phi Gam
brother reported other brothers for attending a circus out-of-town, possibly in Watkinsville, without the
administration’s permission. The “circus incident” is an explanation reported by Charles Edward
Harman III, one of the founders of the 1968-iteration of the chapter based on the remembrances of his
grandfather, Charles Edward Harman I, one of the founders of the 1871 chapter of Kappa Deuteron.

For many years, consideration of the restoration of Kappa Deuteron was explored but without result.

RECOLONIZATION IN
1966 AND THE THIRD
CHARTERING IN 1968.

November
1966 20, 1966 -
KAPPA
DEUTERON
CHAPTER RE-
COLONIZED!
September 1967 - First
chapter house acquired
on Prince Avenue.

1968
March 23,
1968 -
KAPPA DEUTERON RE-
CHARTERED FOR THIRD Newly initiated Brothers of Kappa Deuteron
TIME. following the third chartering of
Georgia’s Kappa Deuteron Chapter in 1968
October 19, 1974 -
Second chapter house, at 3 Cloverhurst Court, is dedicated.

April 23, 1994 - Current chapter house dedicated.

- Separate residence hall dedicated.

March 23, 2018 - Almost 600 Kappa Deuteron Brothers and guests gather to commemorate and
celebrate the 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RETURN OF THE CHAPTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
2018 OF GEORGIA IN 1968, the 147th anniversary of the chapter’s original founding, in the
233rd year of The University and the 170th anniversary of the founding of The Fraternity of
Phi Gamma Delta in 1848 and the return home of The Cheney Cup to Athens for the 14th
time.

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 THE DISTINGUISHED FIVE FOUNDERS
OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER
OF PHI GAMMA DELTA
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Alphabetically

Edwin Le Roy Antony

Date of Birth: January 5, 1852, Waynesboro, Burke County, Georgia.

Date of Death: January 16, 1913, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, age 61.
Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.

EDUCATION: Though born in Georgia, Brother Antony received his early education in the schools of
east Texas. Thereafter, he returned to his native state of
Georgia and enrolled as
a freshman at The
FIRST FOUR PRESIDENTS OF University of Georgia
THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER in September 1869. As
OF PHI GAMMA DELTA a sophomore, he won
the debating award for
1. Robert Leigh Berner his class. As a senior
2. William Wynne, Jr. representing the Phi
3. Edwin Le Roy Antony Kappa literary society,
4. Charles Edward Harman he won the
commencement
championship debate
against the representative of the Demosthenian Society.

Antony was a Founder of the original Kappa Deuteron Chapter

of Phi Gamma Delta in April of 1871 and was its third
president. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree on August
6, 1873.

Brother Antony was a son of Dr. Milton Anthony, Jr. and a grandson of
Dr. Milton Antony, Sr. [the founder of the Medical Academy of Georgia,
Augusta, Georgia, which was chartered December 20, 1828, the first
medical school in Georgia, and which later was better known later as the
Medical College of Georgia - jtf]

CAREER: After graduation, Brother Antony returned to Texas,

specifically to Cameron in Milam County, and then to Georgetown
in Williamson County, Texas. He was admitted to State Bar of
Texas on January 8, 1874 at Cameron. An accomplished, respected attorney, he was elected County
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Attorney for Milam County, Texas in February of 1878. Later, Antony was elected Alderman for the
City of Cameron. On May 13, 1892, he announced his candidacy for the U.S. Congress as a
“Jeffersonian Democrat,” arguing that the best government was a government which governed the least.
In a speech in Waco, Texas, he struck, however, a particularly populist note:

“I would place [an] enormous tax on whisky, tobacco and other luxuries and give the
people clothes, shoes and other necessities free from the infamous tax.” (src: The Waco
Evening News, Waco, Texas, Saturday, May 14, 1892, p. 1.)

ntony won the Democratic Party convention’s nomination for the Ninth Congressional

A District of Texas on June 1, 1892 - on the 184th ballot, after two days of balloting! - and
served the remainder of the term of Rep. Roger Quarles Mills, who had been elected to the
U.S. Senate. Antony served until March 3, 1893. He ran for re-election but lost after 1,560
rounds of balloting over five days at the Democratic Congressional District Convention held that year in
Waco, Texas.

Subsequently, Antony then returned to private practice of law at Georgetown, Texas. In 1901, he had
become an ordained Missionary Baptist minister and soon was called to lead the Baptist church in
Henrietta, Texas, near Wichita Falls. In 1910, he moved to Dallas, Texas, where he died three years
later.

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Robert Leigh/Lee (Bob) Berner

Date of Birth: April 21, 1854, Monticello, Jasper

County, Georgia.
Date of Death: May 13, 1922, Macon, Bibb County,
Georgia, age 68.
Burial: May 15, 1922, Forsyth City Cemetery, Forsyth,
Monroe County, Georgia [I could not find his grave
marker, however, on a visit to that cemetery; may be
unmarked - jtf]

It is believed that his father was William Robert Berner, a

school teacher and native of Germany.

EDUCATION: At The University of Georgia, Berner

was a member of the Phi Kappa literary society. As a
senior, he was one of the Five Founders of the Kappa
Deuteron chapter in 1871 and the first president of the
chapter. He graduated on August 2, 1871, just four
months after the charter for Kappa Deuteron Chapter
was received.

CAREER: Bob Berner was a prominent attorney in Georgia, handling numerous and many well-

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publicized criminal and civil matters. He was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1873. Berner
became one of best-known and influential political leaders of his time.

He was elected five times to the Georgia General Assembly, serving in the Georgia House of
Representatives for four terms and one term in the state Senate. In 1890, Berner was nominated as
Speaker of the Georgia House of
Representatives but declined.

In 1892, Berner ran for the Democratic

nomination for Sixth Congressional
District of Georgia, which then
included all or parts of Baldwin, Bibb,
Butts, Fayette, Henry, Jones, Monroe,
Pike, Spalding and Upson counties, but
lost the nomination by one vote.

In 1893, Berner served as a Special

Agent in U.S. Department of the
Interior during the administration of
President Grover Cleveland and under
former Georgia governor and then-
Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, a
former publisher of The Atlanta Journal
and later a law partner of Brother
Berner.

In 1896, Berner ran and was elected to

the 22nd Senatorial District of
Georgia, during which campaign
Prohibition became a significant issue
(viz: The Macon Telegraph, Macon,
Georgia, Thursday, August 13, 1896, pp. 1, 5).

He won and was shortly, thereafter, elected President of the Georgia state Senate, unanimously - and
as a freshman member of that body over Harry Dunwoody, a cousin of Spencer Atkinson [see below.]
That year, he was also considered a possible candidate for Governor.

Two years later, on February 17, 1898, Brother Berner announced his candidacy for Governor. His
was a campaign largely built on populist themes, specifically running against the excesses of the
railroads and against tax exemptions the legislature had enacted for “big” corporations. Berner finished
second to Allen Daniel Candler in the Democratic primary held on June 7, 1898 [Candler - once U. S.
Congressman and just prior to the race, Georgia’s Secretary of State - lost an eye in battle during The
Civil War, and was sometimes called “One Eye” Daniel - jtf.] Berner bested Georgia Supreme Court
Judge Spencer Roane Atkinson, of Brunswick Georgia.

Two weeks after the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Berner was appointed by Gov. William Yates
Atkinson [no relation to his gubernatorial competitor that I know - jtf] as Lieutenant Colonel of the
Third Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, Georgia, Spanish-American War, and, in that position, he served

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until April 1899. The Third Regiment was a part of the post-War occupation force of Cuba. Berner had
been an enthusiastic supporter of Gov. Atkinson’s 1894 successful gubernatorial campaign.

Following his military service, Berner returned to the private practice of law in Atlanta, including a
partnership with former Georgia Gov. Hoke Smith. Berner also practiced law in Atlanta, Forsyth and
Macon, Georgia.

For his years of faithful public service, the town of Frankville in Monroe County was renamed Berner,
Georgia (33°9’17”N, 83°49’43”W, U.S. Highway 23 and Georgia Highway 83.)

In 1914, Col. Berner was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to be the President’s nominee for
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, but Berner’s nomination was blocked by his own
home state U.S. Senator, William Stanley West, because the Senator felt his input on the nomination had
not accepted.

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Emmett Cody

Date of Birth: July 25, 1852, Chattahoochee County, Georgia.

Date of Death: May 9, 1877, Chattahoochee County, Georgia, age 24.
Burial: Jamestown Cemetery, Chattahoochee County, Georgia, property which is now a part of the Fort
Benning Army Base.

EDUCATION: A son of Captain David Columbus Cody, a native of Warren County, Georgia, Emmett
entered The University of Georgia in 1869 and, in 1871, became one the Five Founders of the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta as a sophomore. Cody was a member of The University of
Georgia Class of 1873 but left school before graduation.

B
rother Cody was a kinsman of Madison Cody (UGA 1848) of Warren County - a
member of the Temple of the Skull and Bones of the Mystic Seven at The University
of Georgia, the first fraternal, secret society on campus, established there in 1846.
Madison Cody’s description of an initiation ceremony conducted by the Mystics in
Athens is recorded in the book, “The Mystics and Beta Theta Pi,” by Karl W. Fischer,
Germantown, Pennsylvania, published by Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 1940, p. 21.

Of that ceremony, conducted in the chambers of the Phi Kappa literary society, Cody
states that Alonzo Webster Church, the son of then-President of the University Alonzo
S. Church, served as “Bumbote,” president or chairman. Madison Cody was later a
member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1853-1854, according to Fischer, and
fought in the Confederate Army but died in action in 1863 at Crampton’s Gap
[Burkittsville - CSA], Virginia. President Alonzo Church’s mother was Elizabeth Whipple,
related to later Kappa Deuteron Brothers Ulysses Virgil Whipple and William Holliman
Whipple. Emmett and Madison Cody also have shared family connections to Phi
Gamma Delta Brother Churchill Pomeroy Goree and the family of brothers Benning
Moore Kennon and William Augustus Kennon.

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Brother Emmett Cody was working in Columbus, Georgia, when he took ill in January of 1877. For
several years, he was a bookkeeper at the Lowell warehouse of the historic, cotton and textile giant
Eagle and Phenix Mill, at one time the largest mill in the South. He returned to his parents’ home in
Chattahoochee County, Georgia, to recover but passed away there a few months later. According to his
obituary in The Columbus Daily Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia, Thursday, May 10, 1877, p. 4: “(Cody)
was warm-hearted, generous, without a single bad trait and was greatly loved by his comrades.”

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Charles Edward Harman

Date of Birth: October 10, 1852, Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia.

Date of Death: June 10, 1925, DeKalb County, Georgia, age 72.
Burial: Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: While a student in Athens, Harman joined the Demosthenian Society and, in late May
of 1871, he was named “best junior debater.” It was that year also when he was among the five men
who founded Phi Gamma Delta’s Kappa Deuteron Chapter.
Harman served as chapter treasurer and the fourth
chapter president. He was graduated from The University of
Georgia, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, on August 7, 1872.

Brother Harman’s son, Charles, Jr. was the father of Charles E.

Harman III, who was one of the charter members of the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter when it was recolonized at The University of
Georgia, pledging in January 1968.

Charlie (Georgia 1971) was Chief of Staff for U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn
from 1987-1992 and for U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss in 1997,
president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce from 1992-1996
and later vice president for government and community affairs for
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

On April 22, 1902, Charles Harman I married Rebekah Hough Scott,

“A few years ago, this mustache and
smile were known by nearly
everybody in Atlanta, and now they
have come back again ...”
daughter of C.S.A. Col. George Washington Scott, who was the
founder of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia [named for Col.
Scott’s mother.] Col. Scott was elected Governor of the State of
Florida just after the Civil War but was denied the office by Federal
occupying forces during “Reconstruction.”

The Constitution newspaper of Atlanta
on Harman’s return to Atlanta in 1890
from Cincinnati, Ohio, to which city he
had been earlier transferred.
Brother Harman’s sister, Harriett Zachariah (“Zac”) Harman,
married Eugene Pinckard Black, Sr., a son of Dr. Robert Cope Black.
Dr. Black was a brother of George Robison Black who was the
father of Augusta Georgeanna (Gussie) Black, wife of Peyton Lisby
Wade.

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Georgia and his maternal grandfather was the Rev. Joshua Sanford Callaway, a Baptist minister from Wilkes
County, Georgia.

CAREER: Brother Harman was the head librarian at the Young Men’s Library of Atlanta and then head
cashier at the Kimball House, a then-famous Atlanta hotel, before his appointment as “general freight
soliciting agent” for the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Harman, later called by The Constitution
newspaper of Atlanta “one of the most prominent railroad men in the South,” would then be promoted to
general passenger agent in 1883 and then, in 1892, general passenger and freight agent, his office at
Union Station adjacent to the state Capitol, essentially serving as the top local officer for the railway.

Harman was also active in Atlanta politics and government. He represented Sixth Ward on the Atlanta
City Council from 1894 until 1896, first elected on November 6, 1893. He served again as councilman
from 1906 to 1908, this time representing city’s Eighth Ward. He also served as secretary-treasurer of
the Capital City Club in Atlanta.

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William Wynne (Jr.)

Date of Birth: October 6, 1851, Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

Date of Death: November 7, 1928, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, age 77.
Burial: Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Wynne entered The University of Georgia in 1869 as a sophomore. He was a member
of the Demosthenian Society and, as a junior, a Founder of Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma
Delta in 1871. Wynne was the second
president for the chapter. He graduated
from The University of Georgia on
August 7, 1872, with a Bachelor of Arts
degree.

It is in Wynne’s penmanship that the

letter on behalf of the original Five
Founders of Kappa Deuteron petitioning
Phi Gamma Delta for membership was
written.

The home of JUDGE WILLIAM WYNNE

CAREER: Brother Wynne, an attorney, at 415 E. Robert Toombs Avenue,
served as judge in Washington, Georgia, Washington, Georgia, built about 1897
from November 14, 1908 until his death
20 years later. The Augusta Chronicle
newspaper called him one of the most “prominent lawyers of east Georgia.”

A well-respected civic leader, farmer and businessman, he also served in the Georgia House of
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Representatives, 1894-1895. For a number of years, Judge Wynne was chairman of the Wilkes County
Democratic Executive Committee, at this point in history, Washington, Georgia and Wilkes County,
Georgia being one of the leading centers of commerce in the state. Methodist. Member, LaFayette
Masonic Lodge, No. 23, Washington, Georgia.

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BROTHERS: CLASS OF 1872

Llewellyn Spotswood Dearing

Date of Birth: April 27, 1853, Limestone County, Alabama [sources: the 1860 census of Edgefield
County, South Carolina, the 1870 census of Clarke County, Georgia, and the 1880 census of Adairsville,
Bartow County, Georgia. Some sources differ - jtf]
Date of Death: October 3, 1911, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, age 58.
Burial: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. [In addition to Brother Dearing, six
other Brothers of Kappa Deuteron Chapter are interred at Oconee Hill: his brother Alfred Long Dearing,
Jr., Carlton, Crane, Reaves, Talmadge and Peyton Wade - jtf]

EDUCATION: Dearing entered The University of Georgia in 1869. He and Arthur Henry Gray were
likely initiates #6 and #7 for the newly established Kappa Deuteron Chapter.

Dearing was a member of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1872, though he is not named among the
32 graduates of that class. In writing of his death, The Athens Banner newspaper noted: “Mr. Dearing
was educated at the University of Georgia and was one of the most popular young men who ever
attended that institution.”

A brother of L. S. Dearing, Alfred Long Dearing, Jr., was also a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta.

Brother Dearing was a son of Alfred Long Dearing who was a son of Gen. William Edward Dearing, president of
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company and for whom the city of Dearing, Georgia in McDuffie County was
named.

THE DEARING AND KENNON FAMILIES AND KAPPA DEUTERON

A brother of Alfred Long Dearing, Sr., William Edward Dearing, Jr., had a son William Pleasant
Dearing who married Emma Kennon in 1867 in Newton County, Georgia. The Kennon family
name plays a prominent role in the history of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter, with two
Kennon men who were Brothers of Phi Gamma Delta at Georgia (Benning Moore Kennon and
William Augustus Kennon) and other men with Kennon family relationships, such as Brother
Henry Bradford Walker who married Virginia H. (Mary/Mamie?) Kennon and the father of
Brother Churchill Goree, who married the widow of Xenophon Kennon.

Brother Dearing was a bookkeeper at the Athens Cotton Mills, Athens, Georgia, and at least by 1906,
according to the university catalogue, he was a fruit grower in Florida. Dearing was a member of the
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Odd Fellows. Episcopalian.

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Arthur Henry Gray

Date of Birth: January 31, 1850, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, while his father was leading the
expansion of the Monroe Railroad, one of Georgia’s earliest rail lines, connecting Macon and Forsyth.
Date of Death: July 25, 1885, New York City, New York, age 35.
Burial: Graysville Cemetery, Graysville, Catoosa County, Georgia, on land which was dedicated by his
father for the establishment of the cemetery.

EDUCATION: Brother Gray was a member - one of the first two initiates brought into the secrets of
the Kappa Deuteron Chapter by its Five Founding
Brothers - and treasurer. He graduated from The University of
Georgia with a Bachelor of Law degree on August 7, 1872.

Brother Gray was a son of The Rev. John David Gray, a native of
London, England, who immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in
1818 and later moved to South Carolina and Georgia. Rev. Gray was
considered “the first major railroad contractor in the South,”
according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, building railroads
across the South. While leading the construction of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad in Georgia, Gray founded the town of Graysville in
Catoosa County, Georgia in 1849. At Graysville, he built a grist mill,
furniture factory and munitions factory, the Graysville Mining and
Manufacturing Company, which was largely destroyed during the
Civil War. He was ordained into the ministry of the Baptist Church
at Graysville in 1858.

CAREER: Arthur Henry Gray was an attorney, practicing in

Ringgold, Catoosa County, Georgia, among other places. As
Brother Arthur Henry Gray
an attorney, he was in New York City negotiating bond
funding for the Catoosa Lime Works (producer of building
materials made of calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide) when he died. Brother Gray was a member of
the Georgia House of Representatives representing Catoosa County, Georgia from 1874 until 1884. As
state representative, Gray introduced legislation to create a statewide, standardized voter registration
system, requiring each county to establish a board of registration. He had turned his pursuits to
agriculture and horses shortly before his death.

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Churchill Pomeroy Goree

Date of Birth: November 10, 1851, Lafayette, Walker

County, Georgia.
Date of Death: October 16, 1936, Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tennessee, age 84.
Burial: Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tennessee.

EDUCATION: Brother Goree entered The University of

Georgia in 1871. He was among the first ten members of
Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and also served
as chapter treasurer. Goree was a member of The University
of Georgia Class of 1873. Later, he was a founding member
of the Atlanta Graduate Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta when it
was chartered in 1923. A life-long loyal Fiji, Goree attended
Diamond Jubilee Ekklesia [Phi Gamma Delta’s national
convention at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] in September 1923,
which included a pilgrimage to Canonsburg, site of the Photograph of Churchill Goree,
Fraternity’s founding. copied from The Atlanta Georgian
and News of February 25, 1910
He was a son of Eli Goree, one of the pioneer citizens of Walker
County, Georgia.

CODY, GOREE AND KENNON FAMILIES AND THEIR KAPPA DEUTERON CONNECTIONS

There is a Phi Gamma Delta connection between the Carr, Goree and Cody families as well as the Kennon family.

Kappa Deuteron Brother Emmett Cody was a son of David Columbus Cody and grandson of Lawson Cody of
Warren County. Lawson Cody’s brother was Jeptha Melton Cody. Jeptha Melton Cody married first Missouri
Eliza Cheeley, second Amanda Melvina Carr and third Julia Latimer. Miss Carr was a daughter of John Pace Carr
and a half-sister of Nancy Warren (Carr) Kennon Goree, third wife of Brother Goree’s father, Eli; Nancy Warren
(Carr) Kennon Goree was the widow of Xenophon Kennon of Newton County, Georgia.

Another daughter of John Pace Carr, Frances Martha Carr, married Madison D. Cody, one of the earliest member
of The Mystic Seven at The University of Georgia in 1847 and a relative of Kappa Deuteron Brother Emmett
Cody.

CAREER: Churchill Goree, after leaving The University of Georgia, taught school and was a school
principal in his hometown of LaFayette, Walker County, Georgia. Later, Goree studied law and was for
many years a very well-known figure in legal circles in the Southeast.

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 Goree was active and well-known in Georgia and national politics. He was a leader of the
“Black-and-Tan Republicans,” which sought a modern and moderate Republican party that
accommodated both black and white Southerners, this at a violent time when the Ku Klux Klan
and lynchings of blacks were at their zenith ... “hangings, shootings, burning at the stake,
maiming, dismemberment, castration and other brutal methods of physical torture,” according
to “The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880-1950,” by Robert A.
Gibson, published by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, 2002.

Increasingly, however, so-called “lily-white” Republicans - frustrated by their status as a super-

minority party, losing most all elections in the South and hoping to be more competitive in
elections and with some driven by their resentment of the outcome of the Civil War and their
supremacist condescension of Blacks - wanted to attract more Southern white voters by purging
blacks from the party. In opposition to the “lily-white” movement, Goree was instrumental in
1880 in helping to elect William Anderson Pledger as the Georgia Republican Party’s first black
chairman. Ironically, Goree’s father “owned” 25 slaves, according to the 1860 census of Walker
County, Georgia.

On February 11, 1904, Goree was selected unanimously as the Republican nominee for Fifth
Congressional District of Georgia. Following a speech in October of 1904, in which his Democratic
opponent Lon Livingston reportedly called Brother Goree a “liar,” Goree attacked the congressman and
“struck him several blows in the face before the two men were pulled apart.” Very, very few
Republicans won elective office at this time in Georgia history, and it is no surprise that Goree lost the
November 1904 contest polling 3,760 votes to Livingston’s 9,387.

In 1907, Goree founded and was also the first president of the Georgia [Women’s] Suffrage League.

Goree was also active in national politics, serving as the Republican National Committeeman from
Georgia and a delegate to several Republican National Conventions, including the 1920 convention that
nominated Warren Gamaliel Harding for President of the United States and fellow Phi Gamma Delta
Brother John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (Amherst 1895) as Vice-President.

On December 23, 1921, Goree took the oath of office and became the Assistant United States Attorney
for the Northern District of Georgia, appointed by President Coolidge and subsequently re-appointed by
President Herbert Hoover, later retiring to private law practice at the conclusion of his public service.

Mason, Chattanooga Lodge No 199 and Chief Patriarch (Presiding Officer), Empire Encampment No.
12, Atlanta, Odd Fellows.

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Samuel Alonzo (Lon) Reid

Date of Birth: February 26, 1854, near Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia.
Date of Death: August 9, 1902, Unicoi, near Johnson City, Tennessee, age 48.
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Lon entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1870 as a sophomore. He became
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a member of the Demosthenian Society debating and literary society. He was secretary of the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Reid and Brother Frederick Ball Pope [and possibly Brothers
Osborne Stone Barnett and Benjamin Franklin Coleman, Jr. - jtf] were delegates to the Fraternity’s 1873
Convention in New York City. Reid was among the 33 graduates of the University of Georgia Class of
1873, Bachelor of Arts. He was elected secretary for the class’s ten-year reunion and led the class
reunion organizing committee in 1901.

Brother Reid was a son of James Lewis Reid. Brother Reid’s mother, Martha James Trippe, was a sister of Sarah
Jane Trippe, wife of University of Georgia President Alonzo Church, sixth president of the University. A nephew
of James Lewis Reid, William Andrew Reid (UGA 1850), was a member of the first secret society at The
University of Georgia, The Mystic Seven, and later an attorney and owner of The Macon Telegraph newspaper,
Macon, Georgia.

Lon Reid is also a first cousin-once removed of fellow Kappa Deuteron Brother William Dennis
Reid. A brother, James Alexander Reid, born in 1837, married Miss Mary Griggs, related to
Brother Asa Wesley Griggs, Jr. as both are descendants of William Griggs, who was born in
Virginia 1740.

CAREER: After graduation, Lon Reid taught school and then returned to Eatonton, Georgia, where he
studied law under Judge Thomas Graves Lawson, whose wife was the former Mary Francis Reid. Lon
was admitted to State Bar of Georgia in September 1877. Reid later served as School Commissioner for
the Putnam County, Georgia schools. About 1885, he moved to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, where
he continued the practice of law becoming one of the “prominent lawyers” of that city.

Brother Reid represented Macon in the Georgia House of Representatives, 1896-1897. One of his most
important bills regarded child labor laws, prohibiting the employment of children less than 13 years of
age in any “mill, factory, shop, laundry or other similar places.” Reid was elected Vice President of the
Georgia Library Association at the organization’s founding on May 31, 1897. In 1901, Lon Reid ran
unsuccessfully as a Democrat for Alderman of the city of Macon, losing by 260 votes.

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BROTHERS: CLASS OF 1874

Daniel Marshall (Marsh or Marshall) Andrews

Date of Birth: October 24, 1853, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

Date of Death: June 28, 1917, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; he had traveled there for surgery, age
63.
Burial: Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Brother Andrews entered The University of Georgia in 1872. He was a member and
treasurer of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Marshall was a member of The
University of Georgia’s Class of 1874, however, due to illness, he was unable to complete final

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examinations for graduation but was later awarded a Civil Engineering degree by school.

B
rother Andrews’ father was Col. Garnett Andrews, a candidate for Governor of
Georgia in 1855 as a representative of the American or “Know Nothing” Party. Col.
Andrews lost by about 10,000 votes statewide to Gov. Herschel V. Johnson (UGA
1834). Col. Andrews was the author of the legendary memoir “Reminiscences of An
Old Georgia Lawyer,” published in 1870. Though Garnett Andrews owned 200 or more slaves at
one time, he believed strongly in the preservation of the Union and vocally opposed Southern
secession as “futile” and “potentially tragic.” Nonetheless, once war was eminent, Col. Andrews
supported the South and his native state; his son, Garnett Andrews, Jr., was the first in Wilkes
County to join the Confederate Army.

CAREER: Brother Marshall Andrews was an Assistant Engineer for the U. S. Army Corps of
Engineers. From 1881 until 1884, he helped construct railroads in Georgia and South Carolina that
became a part of the Seaboard system. Beginning in 1885, Marshall Andrews worked on a number of
river and harbor improvement projects in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, including the design and
construction of navigation locks and dams and storage reservoirs to facilitate navigation and power
sources. In 1901 and 1902, Andrews help develop plans and specifications for the construction of the
sea wall at Galveston, Texas following the ferocious Galveston Category 4-hurricane that devastated
that city in 1900, killing as many as 12,000 people. The first three-miles of the wall were built
beginning in 1902, and the total project was completed in 1904.

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Osborne Stone Barnett

Date of Birth: March 2, 1853, Wilkes County, Georgia.

Date of Death: November 13, 1923, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, of pneumonia, age 69.
Burial: Resthaven Cemetery, Washington,
Wilkes County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Barnett matriculated at

The University of Georgia in 1872. He
served as treasurer, secretary and president
of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta; he also served as Legate to
the Chapter when it was re-chartered in
1884. Records are difficult to decipher,
but he may have been a delegate to Phi
Gamma Delta’s 25th anniversary 1873
national convention in New York City,
April 29 - May 1. Barnett was a member The childhood home of Brother Osborne S. Barnett,
of The University of Georgia Class of now home of the Washington (Ga.) Historical Museum
1874.

Brother Barnett was the driving force

behind an attempt to resurrect the chapter in 1883 after chapter had failed to survive the 1874 ban on
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fraternities by The University. Unfortunately, his efforts to re-establish the chapter and extend possible
membership to seven students he had recruited were denied on March 5, 1883 by the Grand Chapter of
Phi Gamma Delta on their belief that Barnett - in his enthusiasm to return Kappa Deuteron to The
University of Georgia - may have already initiated or divulged the secrets of the Fraternity to the
prospective members. A year later, however, Barnett was named to be the Legate for the re-
establishment of the Chapter on August 26, 1884.

Osborne Stone Barnett’s grandfather, Samuel Barnett, Sr., was president of the Bank of Georgia
in Washington, Georgia, where, on May 5, 1865, “ ... the last cabinet meeting of the Confederate
government was held [to dissolve the Confederacy.] C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis and his
cabinet assembled there while making flight through Georgia at the close of the Civil War,”
according to the book “A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians,” by Lucian Lamar Knight, v.
5, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1917, p. 2555 and other accounts.
Davis fled Washington, Georgia but was soon afterwards captured in Irwinton, Georgia on May
10, 1865. Traveling with Davis from Richmond through Georgia was the bulk of the Confederate
Treasury, some say as much as $10 million in current value and believed to be hidden
somewhere in Wilkes County [but yet undiscovered. The Clint Eastwood movie classic, “The
Good, The Bad, and the Ugly,” revolves around the search for missing Confederate gold - jtf].

Brother Barnett’s father, Samuel, a lawyer and Trustee of The University of Georgia, was at one
time the Railroad Commissioner for the State of Georgia.

Brother Barnett had a brother, Edward Augustus Barnett who married Mary Austin Hill, a
daughter of Wylie Pope Hill and Jane James Austin and a sister of Kappa Deuteron members
Burwell Meriwether Hill and John James Hill. Another brother of Osborne Stone, Samuel
Barnett III, graduated from The University of Georgia in 1869 [before the establishment of Phi
Gamma Delta at Georgia - jtf] was in 1878 appointed adjunct professor of mathematics at The
University, was a successful attorney in Atlanta and an early member of the Chi Phi fraternity.

CAREER: Brother Barnett taught school, was a farmer and later a brick manufacturer in Wilkes
County, Georgia. “Washington-Wilkes,” a publication of the Writers’ Program of the WPA of Georgia,
published by the University of Georgia Press, 1941, p. 68 noted:

“Although the early years of the 1890s were characterized principally by the slow growth
of industries established since Reconstruction, the later years showed some commercial
expansion in new enterprises … In [1899], O. S. Barnett, a prominent brick
manufacturer, handled a single order for a million brick, the largest yet made here.”

Barnett was also a member of the Wilkes County Board of Education, Washington, Georgia and served
as secretary-treasurer for the first board of the Washington-Wilkes library - the first free public library in
Georgia when it opened in 1889.

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William Matthew Head

Date of Birth: April 14, 1849, in a part of Barbour County, Alabama that now lies within Bullock
County.
Date of Death: December 26, 1925, Ozark, Dale County, Alabama, age 73.
Burial: Pinckard Cemetery, Midland City, Dale County, Alabama.

EDUCATION: Brother Head was a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and
The University of Georgia Class of 1874, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree.

CAREER: Head was an educator - for three years in Georgia and Texas - and, beginning in 1876 and
for almost 40 years - in the Wiregrass counties of Alabama, including tenure as superintendent of
education for Dale County, Alabama schools. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Head as
Postmaster at Ozark, Alabama on June 5, 1914 and again in 1918. “List of Membership by Chapters”
edited by Cecil J. Wilkinson (Ohio Wesleyan 1917), The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, October 1925,
pp. 98-9, reports that he was living in Havana, Cuba. He was a Mason (Pinckard, Alabama Lodge
#611).

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George Arden Illges

Date of Birth: September 28, 1854, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Date of Death: February 1879, Austin, Travis County, Texas, according to “The Catalogue of the
Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, from 1785-
1906,” E. D. Stone Press, Athens, 1906. He was 25 years old at his death.
Burial: Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Illges entered The University of Georgia in 1872. He graduated on August 5, 1874 with
a degree in Civil Engineering and with distinction in mathematics and applied mathematics. He was a
member, treasurer and president of Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.

His father was Jacob Paul Illges, who moved from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Columbus,
Georgia in 1835. In Columbus, Mr. Illges established a successful grocery business and later
became one of the organizers of the Swift Spinning Mills (textiles), which later became a part of
Fieldcrest Mills. J. P. Illges and his brother, Abraham, were instrumental in the founding of
many of Columbus, Georgia’s major industrial enterprises, including, as mentioned before, the
Swift Spinning Mills, and also the Columbus Electric and Electric, Columbus Ice Company,
Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, Golden Foundry Mill, Lummus Cotton Gin Company, the
Muscogee Manufacturing Company and others.

John Paul Illges’ brother, Abraham, married Mary Lou Barnett, 28 years younger than he. Miss
Barnett was a daughter of John Nathaniel Barnett and Lucy Anne Pitts. A sister of Mary Lou

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 Barnett, Julia Adelle Barnett, married Kappa Deuteron Brother William Anderson Redd.

CAREER: Brother Illges moved to Austin, Texas by 1878. He was a bookkeeper for L. E. Edwards and
later an engineer for the original Sunset Route of the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railroad -
later a part of the Southern Pacific Railroad - in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.

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Alexander Stephens (Aleck/Alex) Jenkins

Date of Birth: February 5, 1855, Putnam County, Georgia.

Date of Death: May 14, 1912, Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia, of pneumonia, age 55.
Burial: Pine Grove Cemetery, Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Member, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta. University of Georgia, Class of
1874.

After the death of his father in 1862, Aleck, then age 15 - and two
brothers and his sister, Mary Emma Jenkins - are found in census
records living in Putnam County in the household of James Lewis
Reid, father of Alex Jenkins’ future fraternity brother, Samuel
Alonzo Reid.

CAREER: The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, April 1886, p.

143: “Alex. S. Jenkins lives near Eatonton, Ga., in Putnam
County, where he is successful engaged in farming.”

In October 1891, The Quarterly proclaimed that Jenkins “ ... one of the finest lawyers of the Eatonton
bar.”

His ancestors include Lieutenant Colonel John Jenkins, an English soldier, who served as Proprietary
Governor of North Carolina during various periods from 1672-1681. Brother Jenkins’ great-grandfather
was Revolutionary War solider Robert Jenkins, who was awarded land in Georgia for his military
service.

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Benjamin Ivy McKenney

Date of Birth: November 17, 1852, near the Talbot and Taylor county line, Georgia.
Date of Death: February 28, 1922, Orlando, Orange County, Florida, age 69.
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando, Orange County, Florida.

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EDUCATION: McKenney entered The University of Georgia in May of 1872. He was a member of
the Demosthenian Society and joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Graduate,
Civil Engineering, The University of Georgia, summer of 1874.

CAREER: Ivy McKenney moved from Smithville, Lee County, Georgia to Florida in 1882, buying land
on banks of Manatee River south of Tampa, and remained there five
years, after which he sold his land and returned to Georgia about
1886.

Back in Smithville, 25 miles north of Albany, Georgia, McKenney

was a founder of the Farmers Union Gin and Warehouse Company
in 1908. He was also among the founders of Lee County Chamber
of Commerce in November 1913 and owned a large pecan grove,
farmed a variety of crops, especially fruits, and was also in the
banking business. In 1916, Ivy moved back to Florida, this time to
Orlando. He established the Chero-Cola Bottling Company in that
city and ran a prosperous orange grove. [Chero-Cola had been
established in Columbus, Georgia in 1910 and would later be
renamed RC Cola - jtf]

From a 1985 story in The Orlando Sentinel newspaper, “Molly and

Benjamin Ivy McKenney were Orlando pioneers. Their old
homestead ... is now the site of First Presbyterian’s parking lot.”
Benjamin Ivy McKenney
A son, Paul Kerns McKenney, rose to become president of Swift November 1872. Athens, Georgia
Manufacturing Company (textiles) in Columbus and later Chairman
of the Board. Family members of Kappa Deuteron Brother George Arden Illges were investors in Swift.

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James Mackie Myers

Date of Birth: September 23, 1854, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.

Date of Death: July 27, 1879, Rockmart, Polk County, Georgia, of typhoid
fever, age 24.
Burial: Marietta City Cemetery (Citizen’s Cemetery), Marietta, Cobb
County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Myers entered The University of Georgia in May 1872 and

joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. A few months later, he transferred to
Oxford College, Emory University, Oxford, Georgia, as junior. Graduate,
Oxford College, Emory University, July 1874, class salutatorian.

Myers was a son of The Rev. Edward Howell Myers. Rev. Myers was born in James Mackie Myers,
Orange County, New York on June 9, 1816. He became an ordained Methodist 1874, Emory University.
minister about 1841 in Georgia. He was also a professor at Wesleyan Female

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College, Macon, Georgia from 1845 until 1851 and twice was president of the college, 1851-54 and 1871-74. Dr.
Myers was later pastor of Trinity Church, Savannah, Georgia, 1874-1876, in which city he died on September 26,
1876 during the “yellow fever” epidemic of that year. In the autumn of 1876, more than 1,000 had died along
the Georgia coast, including Kappa Deuteron Brother William Edgar Jones in Brunswick, Georgia.

CAREER: At the time of his death in 1879, Brother Myers was a school teacher in Polk County,
Georgia.

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BROTHERS: CLASS OF 1875

Robert Carson McGough

Date of Birth: January 10, 1857, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Date of Death: March 21, 1880, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, age 23.
Burial: Glenville [sometimes Glennville] Cemetery, Russell County, Alabama, about 30 miles from
Columbus.

EDUCATION: Brother McGough, son of John McGough and Mary Dawson, entered The University of
Georgia in 1873, according to “A Historical Sketch of the University of Georgia,” by A. L. Hill, The
Foote & Davies Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1894. He was a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of
Phi Gamma Delta and The University of Georgia’s Class of 1875.

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Burwell Meriwether Hill

Date of Birth: July 9, 1852, Wilkes County,

Georgia.
Date of Death: July 21, 1923, at his home nine
miles northwest of Washington, Wilkes County,
Georgia, age 71.
Burial: Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Wilkes
County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Hill entered The University of

Georgia in 1873 and was initiated into the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. He was a
student of The University of Georgia’s Class of Childhood home of Burwell Meriwether Hill,
1875. Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

His father, Wylie Pope Hill, was “one of the most

extensive planters of Georgia,” according to “Georgia; comprising sketches of counties, towns, events,

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institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedia form,” v. 2, by Allen Daniel Candler, published State Historical
Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 1906, p. 274.

The familial, business and civic ties between the Adams, Andrews, Barnett, Bussey, Callaway,
Cason, Dearing, Evans, Head, Hill, Pope, Taliaferro, Walton and Wynn(e) families of Meriwether,
Muscogee and Wilkes county - all of which produced men who were members of the early
Kappa Deuteron chapter of Phi Gamma Delta - are too numerous to detail in this volume and
have published elsewhere in this account - jtf.

Burwell Meriwether Hill’s younger brother, John James Hill, was also a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter
of Phi Gamma Delta at The University of Georgia. Mary Austin Hill, Burwell Meriwether Hill’s sister, married
Edward Augustus Barnett, a younger brother of Kappa Deuteron’s Osborne Stone Barnett. Brother Hill may
never have married.

CAREER: Hill was a dentist, farmer and planter.

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FRATERNITIES BANNED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FROM 1874-1878.

CHANCELLOR TUCKER KICKS THE GREEK LETTER SOCIETIES OFF CAMPUS.

K
appa Deuteron Chapter at The University of Georgia was shut down - along with all of
the other secret, Greek-lettered societies - by Chancellor Henry Holcombe Tucker, one of
his first acts as Chancellor after he was
elevated to that role in August of 1874.
ETA CHAPTER OF CHI PHI, although in
Tucker was a Baptist minister, a native of Warren County, prosperous condition, resolved to disband
Georgia and served as president of the Baptist’s Mercer and all of the paraphernalia ... together
University. He was the driving force in moving the Mercer with the charter and other records were
campus from Penfield, Greene County, Georgia, to its entrusted to the Kappa chapter at Emory
current location in Macon, Georgia in 1870. University. The chapter held no meetings
and initiated no new members from ’74 to
Chancellor Tucker expelled the Greek-lettered secret ’78.
societies from campus because he was of the firm opinion
that fraternities exercised harmful influences on the “History of the Eta Chapter of Chi Phi for
students, aroused class enmity and stood in the way of Its First Fifty Years, 1867-1917,” Eta Trust
students’ attention to scholastic pursuits, a hostile edict and Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, 1917, p. 25.
belief neither exclusive to him alone nor to The University
in Athens.

With his action, gone were first seven Greek-lettered fraternities at Georgia: Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Chi Phi, Kappa Alpha, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu.

With the end to fraternities at Georgia in 1874, the roll of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter, just
three-and-a-half years old, stood at 18. There is some evidence to suggest that the chapter may have
operated sub rosa [Latin for “under the rose” or to mean “underground”] and that a small number of
men were initiated for a short period after the ban.

From “History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter VII: The Administration
of Chancellor Andrew A. Lipscomb from 1866 to 1874, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca.
1949, p. 962, of the original typed manuscript:

N
o doubt there had been considerable criticism of Greek-letter fraternities at
The University of Georgia. They were said to ‘militating’ against the interests
of the literary societies, and there were charges that they were a menace to
studious habits among their members. At any rate, the trustees took the
matter in hand and passed a resolution that barred them from the University ...

The boys had different ways of getting around the new law, for numbers of them did join
the Greek-letter societies. Some would join before they registered. In so doing, they
could then live up to the pledge they had to sign, for they were already members when
they signed. Others were joining in the summer when the University was not in session
and its authorities had no control over the actions of the students. The rule was not a
popular one, it was difficult to enforce, and it was repealed a year after the beginning of
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 the administration of Chancellor Mell, who was considered a friend of the fraternities.

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Chancellor Tucker’s submitted his resignation in August of 1878. After four years at the helm of The
University, Tucker was gone and his replacement, Chancellor Patrick Hues Mell, would - like
Chancellor Lipscomb before him - be a supporter of the fraternities at Georgia.

At the time of Tucker’s exit, the university was on uncertain footing. Enrollment by 1878 had dropped
to 116 students from 266 three years earlier, which probably precipitated Chancellor Tucker’s
resignation as much as anything (src: History of the Eta Chapter of Chi Phi for Its First Fifty Years,
1867-1917, Eta Trust Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, 1917, p. 25). The North Georgia A&M College at
Dahlonega was now the largest college or university in the state, with an enrollment of more than 300
students. Private denominational colleges like Emory (Methodist) and Mercer (Baptist) were also in
fierce competition with the state University in Athens and gaining students and support.

According to Chancellor Tucker’s final report to the Board of Trustees, The University was
competitive in its stature with other Southern school he cited: The University of Virginia claimed
had 120 students, he stated; Washington & Lee, 116; Davidson, 61; the University of Mississippi,
143; and Vanderbilt, 129. But The University of Georgia’s Board of Trustees continued to
express their frustration with dwindling enrollment.

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MELL ELECTED AS CHANCELLOR IN 1878

The University’s next Chancellor, Professor Patrick Hues Mell was elected unanimously on August 6,
1878 - culminating a 22-year teaching career at The University and earlier at Mercer at Penfield.
Chancellor Mell had five sons who were members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and one,
Patrick Hues Mell, Jr., who was a Kappa Alpha. One son, Thomas Mell (UGA Class of 1878,) later
served as Archon President of the national SAE organization. Until his ascension to the Chancellorship,
Mell was president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Unfortunately, by the time the ban on fraternities was lifted by Chancellor Mell in 1878, the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta was gone - no new initiates were reported from 1879 until 1884.

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 BROTHERS: CLASS OF 1875
Continuing with members of Kappa Deuteron
who joined the chapter prior to the
1874 University prohibition on fraternity membership
but who graduated after the ban on Greek-lettered organizations

Frederick Ball (Fred) Pope

Date of Birth: September 13, 1854, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

Date of Death: October 28, 1917, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, age 63.
Burial: Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Brother Pope entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1872 and joined the
Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Among the archival records of The Fraternity are
handwritten notes indicating that Brother Pope and Brother Samuel Alonzo Reid traveled to New York
City in 1873 to attend The Fraternity’s National Convention, possibly also with Brothers Osborne Stone
Barnett and Benjamin Franklin Coleman, Jr. Pope was a member of the Class of 1875.

A son of Alexander Pope and Cornelia Wiley Ball, his father’s third wife, he was the older brother of Nathaniel
Hunter Pope (UGA 1878), who was also a member of Kappa Deuteron of Phi Gamma Delta.

CAREER: Pope was a very successful and

prosperous Georgia businessman: a cotton
factor, entrepreneur, inventor, lawyer and
manufacturer in Augusta and Washington,
Georgia. Brother Pope’s net worth at his
death in 1917 would be more than $9.2
million today.

President, Pope & Fleming, founded 1885,

The Augusta, Georgia home of
Frederick Ball Pope, Magnolia Villa,
at Milledge Road and Walton Way.
manufacturing and selling of cotton seed oil ... ”)
cotton brokers at a time when Augusta was
the second largest center for cotton trade in
the world. President, Augusta Guano
Company, fertilizer company, established
1885. President, Southern States Phosphate
and Fertilizer Company, Augusta, established
in 1897 (“purchasing, mining and selling
phosphate rock, pyrites or other ores ... the
purchase, manufacturing and selling of all
kinds of fertilizers … and the purchasing,

President, Pope Manufacturing Company (and subsidiary Planters Warehouse) at Washington, Georgia
(cotton ginnery, guano fertilizer factory, ice maker and grist mill), founded 1905. Incorporator, Augusta

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Connecting Railroad, 1906, a six-mile, short-line to connect with the Augusta & Florida Railway.

Pope owned at least four patients, according to “Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patients for the
Year 1902,” 57th Congress, 2nd session, U.S. House of Representatives, Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C., 1903, p. 358,
pertaining to seed manufacturing, cotton
production and cotton bale efficiencies
and elasticity.

From The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta,

Georgia, Wednesday, October 31, 1917,
p. 6:

Pope was “... a man whose life ...

The childhood home of Frederick Ball Pope,
in Washington, Georgia, built in 1810.
was always one to join in any step taken for the public good or for civic betterment.”
stood for all that was best and
whose death will be widely
mourned and deeply felt … there
was no man better known, more
highly esteemed or one whose
judgment and advice, in both
public and private affairs, was
more constantly sought. He was a
man of wide influence; his
opinion counted for much and he

At one point in his career, he was asked to run for Mayor of Augusta but ultimately declined.

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William Anderson Redd

Date of Birth: April 9, 1856 [sources differ on the year of his birth but this is the date engraved on his
grave marker - jtf]
Date of Death: January 1, 1928, Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama, age 71.
Burial: Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Redd enrolled at The University of Georgia in 1872. Member, Kappa Deuteron
Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta. Initiated before the University’s 1874 ban on fraternities. The University
of Georgia Class of 1875.

Brother Redd married Julia Adelle Barnett on February 9, 1881. Miss Barnett was a daughter of John Nathaniel
Barnett and sister of Mary Lou Barnett, who was the wife of Abraham Illges, a brother of John Paul Illges who
was the father of Kappa Deuteron’s George Arden Illges. Brother Redd was a son of Charles Anderson Redd and
Eugenia Almira Weems and a descendant of Sir William Rufus de Redds, an Englishman who immigrated to
Virginia in the early 1700s ...

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By his mother, Brother Redd was related to the wife of fellow Kappa Deuteron Brother Nathaniel Hunter Pope.

CAREER: The 1878 Catalogue of Phi Gamma Delta gives his occupation as a librarian in Columbus,
Georgia. He was among the founders of the Columbus Gun Club on June 20, 1879. The 1880 census
of Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia lists his occupation as cotton broker. Later, Redd was a
merchant and farmer in Columbus and Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama. Brother Redd was an
executive with the Grange Warehouse in Columbus.

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Samuel Benton (Sam) Robison

Date of Birth: April 27, 1854, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Date of Death: July 28, 1943, Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia, of pneumonia, age 89. At the
time of his death, he was the oldest living person in his community.
Burial: Old Sandersville City Cemetery, Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Brother Robison moved to Washington County, Georgia from Columbus, Georgia,
when he was 14-years-old to live with his uncle, Gen. Sam Robison. He then attended preparatory
school at the old Mt. Zion Academy about seven miles north of Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia,
founded in 1812 by Nathan Sidney Smith Beman, who spent a short time at The University of Georgia
and was reportedly offered the presidency of The University at some time, later was the fourth president
of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Robison enrolled at The University of Georgia in 1873, where he was initiated into the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Robison was *probably* initiated before the University’s 1874 ban on
fraternities. He was a member of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1875 but left school early and,
on September 3, 1874, he matriculated at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia (Class of
1876). As a fourth-year man, he and Cadets Jeff Davis [son of the president of the Confederacy,
Jefferson Davis - jtf] and Archer Harman were disciplined for some unknown infraction on February
23, 1875; Robison and Davis were re-instated two days later. However, about two weeks later, he was
dismissed from the school on March 8, 1875 for violations of Institute rules.

CAREER: Robison was engaged in farming, was postmaster at Sandersville, Washington County,
Georgia, and around 1910, operated a soft drink bottling plant at Warrenton, Georgia [possibly for Coca-
Cola - jtf] and was a life insurance agent. Mr. Robison was named by Georgia Gov. Hoke Smith to
manage the exhibit from Georgia at the Jamestown Exposition, Jamestown, Virginia in 1907.

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Carlisle Terry, Jr.

Date of Birth: June 3, 1851, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Date of Death: March 10, 1887, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, age 35.

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Burial: Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Carlisle Terry matriculated to The University of Georgia in 1872. Soon, thereafter, he
joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and was later chapter treasurer and
subsequently president. Initiated before the University’s 1874 ban on fraternities. Brother Terry won
the “prize medal” for Applied Mathematics in 1875, according to The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta,
Georgia, August 6, 1875, p. 2. He graduated on July 28, 1875 with a Bachelors of Civil and Mining
Engineering.

CAREER: From The Los Angeles Daily Herald, Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, March 23, 1887,
p. 3 [a tribute that first appeared in a Columbus, Georgia newspaper - jtf.]

B
orn in 1851, the stormy days of war came on just at the time when the
groundwork of an education should have been laid; after scant preparation
for such studies, as he showed decided mathematical talent, he was
matriculated at The University of Georgia for the course of civil
engineering; here he may be said to have commenced life in earnest and to
have entered on a career, which through his high mental endowments, his devotion to
duty and his phenomenal powers of concentration and application is rarely equaled in
brilliancy and success.

Chafing under the restraints and loss of time incident to a curriculum prepared for the
training of an average mind, he soon asked permission of the faculty to complete the
course in half the usual time by carrying on simultaneously the studies of the junior and
senior classes.

His wonderful mathematical talent induced the faculty to accede to his request, and, as a
result, we see him not only graduating as civil and mining engineer at the head of the
senior class but carrying off the special medal for applied mathematics, which required a
standard of excellence so high that it had not been attained by any aspirant for eight years
previously.

Having completed the course, he returned home with his diploma and his honors so nobly
won and so gracefully borne, for a few months much-needed rest for the mental strain of
his brilliant collegiate career had told visibly on his not over-strong constitution.

His first practical work in his profession was on the Georgia State geological survey.
After one year in this service he entered the United States coast survey, where his
promotion was steady and rapid. His skill and quick perceptions qualified him peculiarly
for astronomical work. He was ordered on longitude duty in various parts of the United
States, from Florida to Omaha, Nebraska and other distant points.

When it became necessary to select someone to take charge of the magnetic observatory
at Los Angeles, Cal., he was selected for this exceedingly delicate and important work
after a careful canvass of the qualifications of many candidates. So important was it that
the work in which he was now engaged should go on continuously, that notwithstanding
his now rapidly failing health, he would never allow it to be interrupted for a single day.

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 On his finally applying for relief and change to work less confining, nearly twelve
months elapsed before a qualified successor could be found. When he was at last
relieved he wrote to his parents: “I would have resigned long since but I felt in honor
bound, like a soldier, to stay until a successor should come to relieve me.”

Brother Terry was a scientist and engineer. He was, at the time of his death in 1887, the head of the U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observatory at Los Angeles, California, which observatory was
established in 1882. His father was Dr. Carlisle Terry (UGA 1852), a native of Connecticut and a noted
surgeon for the Confederate Army.

Prior to his appointment at the California observatory, Brother Terry worked as an engineer in Florida,
Georgia and Nebraska and for the U.S. Coast Survey, a department within the U.S. Treasury Department
in the Atlantic Coast division at a rate of $35 a month! He served the Atlantic Coast office until at least
1883, when he was transferred to the Pacific Coast division and the observatory. Terry was the author
of numerous field-related articles.

Science, An Illustrated Journal, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, v. 9,
February 18, 1887, p. 155, New York, New York:

Mr. Carlisle Terry, one of the most efficient officers of the coast survey who has been in
charge of the magnetic observatory at Los Angeles, has been compelled on account of ill
health to retire temporarily from the service and has been ordered to his home at
Columbus, Ga. The results of Mr. Terry’s thorough work have been most important and
his services will be greatly missed.

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James Harper (Jim) Worrill

Date of Birth: August 10, 1855, Talbotton, Talbot County, Georgia.

Date of Death: June 16, 1903, Columbus, Muscogee County,
Georgia, age 47.
Burial: Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Brother Worrill entered The University of Georgia

in 1873. As a student in Athens, he elected to join the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Probably
initiated before the University’s 1874 ban on fraternities. Graduate,
Bachelors of Arts, University of Georgia, July 28, 1875.

He was a son of Judge Edmund Harper Worrill, presiding judge of

Chattahoochee Superior Court circuit and one of the first 15 attorneys
admitted into practice before the Georgia Supreme Court at its first
session held on January 26, 1846 at Talbotton, Georgia. [Prior to the establishment of the Georgia Supreme
Court, the state’s Court of Appeals was the highest court in the state - jtf.] Judge Worrill was the presiding

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officer who administered the oaths of the members of the Georgia state Senate to uphold the Constitution of
the Confederate States of America on November 6, 1861 at Milledgeville, Georgia when his son Jim was 10 years
old.

CAREER: Brother Worrill was an attorney at Talbotton, Georgia and later Mayor of that city, elected
on August 21, 1878, just three years removed from college. After studying law under the tutelage of his
father, he was elected by state legislature to the position of Solicitor-General of the Chattahoochee
circuit on November 8, 1886 and re-elected in 1888. That year, Worrill moved to Columbus, Georgia
and continued the practice of law in that city. In 1889, Brother Worrill was elected to the Georgia
House of Representatives, serving at least through 1893. He was also the Columbus city attorney,
serving several successive terms.

The Talbotton New Era, Talbotton, Georgia, Thursday, June 18, 1903, p. 5: “[Worrill] possessed a great
deal of personal magnetism and was especially strong before a jury.”

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BROTHERS: CLASS OF 1876

Henry Clay Bussey

Date of Birth: February 20, 1852, Jamestown, Chattahoochee County, Georgia [also the hometown of
Emmett Cody, one of the original “Five Founders” of the chapter in 1871 - jtf]
Date of Death: August 24, 1893, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, age 41.
Burial: Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. [Five other members of the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter are also buried in Columbus’s Linwood Cemetery: Brothers Illges, Redd, Terry,
Walker and Worrill - jtf]

EDUCATION: Brother Bussey entered Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia on September
14, 1868, a member of VMI’s Class of 1872, but resigned from the Institute one year later to enroll at
The University of Georgia. Bussey was a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.
Class of 1876, The University of Georgia, but did not graduate. Probably initiated in 1873 before the
University’s 1874 ban on fraternities.

His father, Dr. Nathan Jordan Bussey, was “one of the wealthiest manufacturers in Columbus and one of the
most prominent residents of Georgia.” Dr. Bussey was the first president (1866-1893) of the re-built Eagle &
Phenix textile mills, which was established after the original 1851 Eagle Mill was burned during the Civil War.
During Dr. Bussey’s term, Eagle & Phenix became the largest textile mill in the South. John Paul Illges - father of
Brother George Arden Illges - was prominent in the affairs of the mill and Brother Emmett Cody was also
associated with it.

Brother Bussey’s sister-in-law, Susie Lucas, married William Alexander Carlton, a brother of Kappa Deuteron’s
James Moore Carlton.

CAREER: After leaving The University of Georgia, Henry Clay Bussey joined his father in the textile
manufacturing business at Eagle & Phenix mills. “The Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and

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Matriculates of the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, from 1785-1906,” E. D. Stone Press,
Athens, 1906 gives his occupation as “manufacturer,” Eagle & Phenix Mills. Brother Bussey also
served as Alderman for the city of Columbus, Georgia, beginning in 1884. At the time of his death in
1893, he had recently been re-elected as a member of the Columbus City Council [src: The Daily
Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia, Friday, August 25, 1893, p. 4.]

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Dr. James Moore Carlton

Date of Birth: January 10, 1858, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.

Date of Death: August 18, 1883, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, age 25.
Burial: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Carlton entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1873. At the 1874 graduation
ceremonies on August 3, as a sophomore, Brother Carlton gave the speech “Spartacus to The
Gladiators,” rendered in an “admirable style, delivered superbly and his closing appeal could not have
been surpassed by any orator,” according to The North-East Georgian, Athens, Georgia, Wednesday,
August 12, 1874, p. 3.

Member, Demosthenian Society. Member and Treasurer, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta.
Probably joined the Fraternity in his first year at The University. Graduate, Bachelor of Arts, The
University of Georgia, August 2, 1876. He later was graduated from Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1881, Doctor of Medicine.

His father was Dr. Joseph Barnett Carlton (UGA 1841, Medical College of Georgia 1844), who served in Georgia
House of Representatives from 1852-1856 and the Georgia state Senate from 1856-1858 and who later was a
surgeon for the Confederate States Army serving in Colonel Toombs’ Brigade, First Georgia Militia. Like his son,
the father was a member of the Demosthenian Society at The University of Georgia.

A brother to James Moore Carlton, Dr. William Alexander Carlton, married Kappa Deuteron’s Henry Clay
Bussey’s sister-in-law, Miss Susie Lucas, daughter of Frederick William Lucas and Martha Singleton. Like Brother
Carlton, W. A. Carlton was a physician and a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. James M. Carlton’s uncle,
Henry Hull Carlton, also attended The University of Georgia and Jefferson Medical College and was later elected
to the U.S. Congress representing Athens and surrounding areas.

A sister of Brother Moore, Emma Leila Carlton, married Congressman Charles L. Bartlett, a pallbearer in the
funeral of Brother Berner.

CAREER: Brother Carlton was a physician. From “The Transactions of the Medical Association of
Georgia, Thirty-fifth Annual Session, 1884,” published by the Medical Association of Georgia, printed
by Jas. Harrison & Co. Printers, Atlanta, Georgia, 1884, p. 442:

T
welve months ago at our meeting in Athens, there was present a recently
elected member of our Association, full of buoyant hope of years of useful
professional life with prospects of living to green old age and attaining the
highest honors which could be bestowed upon the devotee of that profession,
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 whose daily task it has ever been to minister to the sick and suffering sons of Adam.
Within four months after the Association had adjourned, James M. Carlton had become
to us only a memory. The silver chord of life had been loosed ...

In his death, the city of Athens has lost an honored and useful citizen, the poor and needy
an ever ready friend and benefactor, his friends an accomplished gentleman and genial
associate, his family an honored son and devoted brother, this Association a valued
member ...

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, August 21, 1883, p. 2:

FUNERAL OF DR. CARLTON.

Athens, August 20 - The funeral service of Dr. James Carlton yesterday afternoon at the
First Methodist church was one of the largest that has ever been held in the city. The
church was crowded with the isles filled and persons standing.

The gallery was crowded by colored people and the streets outside was thronged with
citizens and vehicles ... [His death] has indeed been a sad happening to the poor people of
the community, whose every wants requiring medical skill have been relieved by this
generous young man without compensation or selfish motives ... It was a sad sight to
have seen the colored people, whose best friend he was, crowding around his office and
giving vent to their pent up feelings in tears of deep sorrow ...

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Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Coleman, Jr.

Date of Birth: November 11, 1854, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Date of Death: April 26, 1891, Opelika, Lee County, Alabama, age 36, of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Burial: Lot 52, Rosemere Cemetery, Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.

EDUCATION: Frank Coleman enrolled at The University of Georgia in the fall of 1872. Member,
Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta. The University of Georgia Class of 1876, though did not
participate in commencement exercises for his class. Among the archival records of Phi Gamma Delta
are notes reporting that Coleman along with fellow Georgia Phi Gamma Delta’s Osborne Stone Barnett,
Frederick Ball Pope and Samuel Alonzo Reid were delegates to the Fraternity’s 1873 Convention in
New York City.

Coleman’s father was President of the Board of Trustees of Columbus’s school, among the members of the city’s
first fire department and an Alderman for the city of Columbus.

CAREER: Brother Coleman was the principal in the wholesale and retail dry goods dealer, Hopson &
Coleman of Opelika, Alabama, a “purveyor of boots and shoes and general merchandise.”

According to his obituary in The Enquirer-Sun, Columbus, Georgia, April 28, 1891, p. 4: “He leaves a

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wife but no children.” The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, April 28, 1891, p. 2: “He
was buried today by the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Honor and the Masons, of which orders he
was an active member.”

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Alfred Long Dearing, Jr.

Date of Birth: September 12, 1859 [sources differ on the location of his birth - jtf]
Death: February 14, 1912, Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, about 45 miles southeast of
Charlotte.
Burial: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Brother Dearing entered The University of Georgia in 1874. He was selected as a
Sophomore Declaimer for graduation exercises that occurred that year on August 3. Dearing was a
member of The University of Georgia Class of 1876. He was a member of the Demosthenian Society
and of Phi Gamma Delta [His brother Llewellyn Spotswood Dearing, was among the first ten initiates of
the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter in 1871 - jtf.]

THE DEARING AND KENNON FAMILIES AND KAPPA DEUTERON

A brother of Alfred Long Dearing, Sr., William Edward Dearing, Jr., had a son William Pleasant
Dearing who married Emma Kennon in 1867 in Newton County, Georgia. The Kennon family
name plays a prominent role in the history of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter, with two
Kennon men who were Brothers of Phi Gamma Delta at Georgia (Benning Moore Kennon and
William Augustus Kennon) and other men with Kennon family relationships, such as Brother
Henry Bradford Walker who married Virginia H. (Mary/Mamie?) Kennon and the father of
Brother Churchill Goree, who married the widow of Xenophon Kennon.

CAREER: Brother Dearing left school three weeks before graduating to accept a position [Captain]
with the U.S. Engineering Corps building railroads, later including time in San Louis Potosí, Mexico.
He worked six years for the U.S. Postal System, roughly from 1879-1885. He was the owner of a
grocery store (“Dearing’s”) in Monroe, North Carolina at the time of his death. He lived at 108 W.
Houston Street in Monroe. His obituary in The Weekly Banner, Athens, Georgia, Friday, February 16,
1912, p. 1 states that he was survived by his wife and two children, but does not name them. Member of
the Masonic fraternity, Monroe (N.C.) Lodge, #244.

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Dr. John James (John) Hill

Date of Birth: November 12, 1853, Wilkes County, Georgia.

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Date of Death: November 12, 1906, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, of malaria, on his 53rd
birthday.
Burial: Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Brother Hill entered The University of Georgia in 1873. He was a member and
Treasurer of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, likely initiated prior to Chancellor
Tucker’s decision to bar fraternities from campus in
1874. Member, The University of Georgia’s Class of
1876. After graduation, Hill studied medicine at
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City,
New York, 1877 (Doctor of Medicine) and at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, by
then the Medical Department at Columbia College,
now Columbia University.

Brother Hill was the sixth of nine children of Col. Wylie

Pope Hill, “one of the largest and most successful planters
in the state.” An older brother, Burwell Meriwether Hill,
was also an early member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter
of Phi Gamma Delta at The University of Georgia. The Hill
brothers are buried next to one another in Wylie Pope Hill
lot at Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Georgia. [For
more information on the Hill family, see also “The Hills of
Wilkes County, Georgia and Allied Families,” by Lodowick
Johnson Hill, Johnson-Dallis Company, Atlanta, Georgia,
1922, p. 103.]

The familial, business and civic ties between the

Adams, Andrews, Barnett, Bussey, Callaway, Cason,
Childhood home of Brother John James Hill, Dearing, Evans, Head, Hill, Pope, Taliaferro, Walton
Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia. and Wynn(e) families of Meriwether, Muscogee
and Wilkes county - all of which produced men who
were members of the early Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta - are too numerous to detail in this volume and have been well-
researched and published elsewhere - jtf.

Brother Hill married first Willie Reeves Callaway, March 5, 1884, Wilkes County, Georgia; she died very soon
after their marriage. John James Hill married second Mary Louisa Pope on October 15, 1889 at the First Baptist
Church of Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

Fellow Kappa Deuteron Brother Nathaniel Hunter Pope’s future wife, Kate Ingram Weems, was a bridesmaid in
Brother Hill’s second wedding. Brother Hill’s second wife, Mary Lou Pope, was a daughter of William Alexander
Pope, who was a half-brother of Kappa Deuteron’s Frederick Ball Pope and Nathaniel Hunter Pope, sons of
Alexander Pope by his third wife Cornelia Wiley Ball. William Alexander Pope’s mother was Sarah Joyner
Barnett, daughter of Samuel Barnett, who was the grandfather of Brother Osborne Stone Barnett.

The marriage of Brother Hill’s 20-year-old daughter, Effie Pope Hill, to Edward B. Alsop, 60 years her senior, at
Trinity Church in New York City, created quite a public stir. After their honeymoon, the two separated.

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CAREER: Brother Hill was a physician. He served pro bono as the physician for the St. Joseph’s
Orphanage, Washington, Georgia, at the site of the first Catholic parish in Georgia. The orphanage was
operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and relocated from Savannah in 1876 in favor of the
“open country and climate” of its new host city. Dr. Hill was a member of the Medical Association of
Georgia (MAG) and a delegate to the 1892 American Medical Association (AMA) convention. He also
practiced his healing trade in Athens and Atlanta.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, April 1886, p. 148:

DR. JOHN J. HILL, an enthusiastic Delta, is successfully engaged in the practice of his
profession in Washington, Ga. Brother Hill thinks of locating either in Athens or Atlanta
in order to obtain a larger scope and more extended field of labor. ΚΔ had a very
pleasant visit from her distinguished Brother last month. He was highly pleased with all
the ΦΓΔ’s boys here and will visit them again at an early date.

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William Edgar (Edgar) Jones

Date of Birth: April 1, 1855, Thomson, McDuffie County, Georgia.

Date of Death: September 21?, 1876, Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia, of yellow fever, age 21.

Daily double-digit deaths due to yellow fever were reported from Brunswick to Savannah in September and
October of 1876. The Rev. Edward Howell Myers, father of early Phi Gamma Delta James Mackie Myers, was
among the causalities. The Mayor of Brunswick, Thomas E. Davenport, Brother Jones’ law partner, reported that
“All of the alderman, except two, the marshal and the police chief are either dead, runaway or sick.” Davenport
himself died in November of 1876.

Burial: unknown.

EDUCATION: Brother Jones, son of Dr. James Spann Jones, entered The University of Georgia in
1874, in which year he won recognition as the best Sophomore debater as a member of Phi Kappa
Literary Society. He joined Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. May have been initiated into a Kappa
Deuteron chapter that briefly operated sub rosa for a short period during the school’s prohibition on
membership in Greek-lettered fraternities. The University of Georgia Class of 1876.

CAREER: Jones was admitted to State Bar of Georgia in September of 1875. In Brunswick, Georgia,
Brother Jones was an attorney in the firm of Davenport & Jones, in partnership with the Mayor of that
city, Thomas Eastland Davenport. Just days before his death, Jones was one of six delegates selected to
represent Glynn County at the First Congressional District Democratic Convention at Jesup, Georgia,
September 16, 1876.

The Brunswick Advertiser & Appeal, Brunswick, Georgia, Wednesday, October 20, 1875,
p. 1: “See change of legal advertisement of Mr. T.E. Davenport. He now has associated
with him Mr. W.E. Jones, formerly of Thomson, Georgia. Any business entrusted to

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According to his obituary in The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Friday, September 22, 1876, p.
2: Jones “was a young man of great promise and had already achieved distinction in his profession. By
his death, the State has lost a son who would have done her great honor in the future.”

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Henry Bradford Walker

Date of Birth: April 6, 1855, near Clayton, Barbour County, Alabama, named for his maternal
grandfather, Henry Bradford Thompson.
Date of Death: March 24, 1906, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, age 50, just two weeks shy of
his 51st birthday.
Burial: Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, along with several other early
Georgia Phi Gams.

EDUCATION: Brother Walker enrolled at The University of Georgia in October 1873 as a sophomore.
Member, Demosthenian Society. He obtained coveted speaker positions for graduation exercises in
1875 and 1876. Member, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta, probably initiated into Phi
Gamma Delta in the year prior to the school’s decision to eliminate fraternities from campus. Graduate,
Bachelors of Arts, The University of Georgia, August 2, 1876.

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, August 6, 1876, p. 3:

H. B. WALKER, Alabama, is a deserving and promising young man who has sent
himself through college by his own unaided efforts. He made a good speech, but for
some touching allusions to the “American Eagle” of the south, was rebuked by the
college authorities after the speech. He married Virginia Mary (Mamie) Kennon at
Salem, Lee County, Alabama. She was a daughter of Warner Perry Kennon, Jr. Her
grandparents were William Warner Kennon and Elizabeth Leveritt.

CAREER: Walker was a farmer, lawyer and merchant in Suspension, Bullock County, Alabama. He
also served as postmaster at Suspension about 1889. Sometime after 1900, he moved to Columbus,
Muscogee County, Alabama. Member, Church of the Holy Family (Catholic), Columbus.

From his obituary in “The Columbus Enquirer-Sun,” Columbus, Georgia, Sunday, March 25, 1906, p.
15:

Mr. Walker was a man of noble character and was held in the highest esteem by those
who knew him. He was possessed of business qualifications of a high order, and in a
personal way, he was warmly liked by a host of friends. He had a high sense of truth and
honesty and as a business man had a reputation for integrity and reliability of the highest
order.

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Robert Irvin Walton

Date of Birth: June 1855, Wilkes County, Georgia, location according to the 1900 U.S. census of that
place.
Date of Death: June 7, 1904, Danburg, Wilkes County, Georgia, about 49 years of age.
Burial: Old Fishing Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Danburg, Wilkes County, Georgia, about five
miles north of Washington, Georgia.

EDUCATION: As a sophomore, Walton delivered the speech, “Regulus to the Carthaginians,” August
3, 1874 during graduation exercises that year. He was a member of the Demosthenian Society and was
initiated into the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta possibly after Chancellor Tucker’s ban
on membership in fraternities, but unproven at this time. The University of Georgia, Class of 1876.
Graduate, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, 1877.

The New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 7, 1904:

GEORGIAN KILLS PHYSICIAN.

Dr. Robert I. Walton Shot Down by Farmer, Who Surrenders.

AUGUSTA, Ga., July 6 - A local newspaper has received a dispatch from Washington,
Ga. which says:

“[Thomas] Blakey Sutton, one of the largest farmers of Wilkes County, this afternoon
shot and killed Robert I. Walton near Danburg. Dr. Walton is a brother of Dr. J. H.
Walton of Atlanta. Sutton came immediately to town after the shooting and gave himself
up to the Sheriff. He refuses to talk of the affair more than to say that Dr. Walton drew a
pistol on him at his front gate whereupon he killed Walton instantly.



BROTHERS: CLASS OF 1877

There appears to be only one Phi Gam in The University’s Class of 1877.
The initiation of Lavoisier Lamar by the Kappa Deuteron Chapter,
possibly during a time when students had been prohibited by the school from joining fraternities
- *may* be evidence of Kappa Deuteron’s sub rosa existence, that is,
operating underground in defiance of the Chancellor’s ban on Greek-lettered groups.

Lavoisier Ledran Lamar

Date of Birth: November 26, 1856, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia. He was named in honor of
the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who has been called the “Father of Modern Chemistry.”
Date of Death: May 9, 1946, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 89 years old.
Burial: Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.

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Brother Lamar’s parents, Col. Lucius Mirabeau Lamar (UGA 1852; native of Putnam County, Georgia and of
French ancestry; commander, 8th Georgia Infantry, C. S. A.) and Mary Frances Rawls, were married by The Rev.
Edward Howell Myers, father of a fellow Phi Gamma Delta Brother James Mackie Myers.

Lavoisier Ledran Lamar’s grand-uncle was Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar, founder of The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer
newspaper in 1826 who later moved to Texas and became commander-in-chief of the Texas Army in War of
Independence from Mexico (Texas Revolution). He was elected vice-president of the Republic of Texas in
September 1836 and the second President of the Republican of Texas.

Brother Lavoisier Lamar was a member

of The University of Georgia Class of
1877.

After graduation, Lamar moved to

Macon, Georgia, where he was a member
of the Macon Relief Society. A year
later, Brother Lamar offered himself up
for the Democratic nomination for Bibb
County (Ga.) Tax Collector, but a few
days later, in October 1878, he decided to
retire from the race and embarked to the
Dakota Territory for work on an
One of the engineering works of
engineering project on the Northern
Brother Lavoisier Ledran Lamar,
Pacific Railway (src: The Macon
a bridge crossing a river on the Jalapa Railroad
Telegraph and Messenger, Macon,
in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, 1898.
Georgia, Saturday, October 12 1878, p. 2,
“The Lamar Boys.”)

Sometime before 1885, he was an engineer for the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway to
British Columbia, Canada’s first transcontinental railroad, and at its completion, the longest rail in the
world. Lamar’s crew reportedly finished a seven-mile section in one day, worked on the challenging
section at Kicking Horse Pass (elevation 5,400 ft.) and was present for the driving of the “last spike”
outside of Craigellachie, British Columbia.

From 1885-1887, Lamar was in charge of a section of the construction of the Panama Canal (src: The
Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Tuesday, July 5, 1887, p. 10, “The Panama Canal: Interview with
Macon Man Who Has Spent Two Years on the Work.”) Between 1887 and 1901, he was involved in
constructing numerous railroads and bridges in Mexico.

Lamar married May 11, 1891 at Jalapa (Xalapa-Enríquez), Veracruz, Mexico Isabel Celestina de la
Peña (later a naturalized U.S. citizen.)

Later in life (as early as 1904), he was engaged in the cotton business in New Orleans. For a period he
was back in Hawkinsville and Macon, Georgia. Between 1917 and 1927 or so, he also lived and
worked in Cuba, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua, in charge of banana plantations and rail
transportation.

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BROTHERS: CLASS OF 1878

Nathaniel Hunter Pope

Date of Birth: August 26, 1856, Wilkes County, Georgia.

Date of Death: February 13, 1900, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, 43 years old.
Burial: Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

EDUCATION: Member, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta. Brother Pope was a student
during the entirety of the University’s ban on fraternities, 1874-1878, possibly confirming that for at
least some short time during the prohibition on fraternities, Kappa Deuteron operated clandestinely (sub
rosa), without permission from the administration.

Pope was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1878. His brother, Frederick Ball Pope, was
initiated into Kappa Deuteron of Phi Gamma within the year leading up to the elimination of fraternities
at The University of Georgia.

A half sister, Mary Louisa Pope, married Brother John

James Hill.

Brother Pope married Kate Ingram Weems, a relative of

Mrs. Charles Anderson Redd (neé Eugenia Almira
Weems, daughter of Lock Weems of Wilkes County,
Georgia); Mrs. Redd was the mother of Brother William
Anderson Redd- jtf]

CAREER: The 1880 census of Washington, Wilkes

The childhood home of
Nathaniel Hunter Pope,
“Poplar Corner “in Washington, Georgia.
County, Georgia gives Brother Pope’s occupation as
an attorney. Later, he was in the cotton brokering
business with his biological brother, Frederick Ball
Pope, at Pope & Fleming in Augusta, Georgia.


The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Friday,

February 16, 1900, p. 6:

Washington, Ga., Feb. 15. - (Special.) - The community was shocked yesterday morning
when a telegram from Dr. Ash, of Cincinnati, announced that Mr. Nathaniel H. Pope died
in that city the evening before at 6:30.

Though for several months Mr. Pope has been in ill health, few were prepared to realize
the sad intelligence which the message bore. One week ago today, Mr. Pope left here for
Cincinnati to undergo medical treatment. Mr. Pope would have forty-five years old in

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KAPPA DEUTERON: FROM 1874-1884, INACTIVE.
With Nathaniel Pope’s days at The University of Georgia concluded, the last of the original Kappa
Deuterons were gone from campus. No student was left wearing the Black Diamond and the light of the
White Star of Phi Gamma Delta in Athens was extinguished for the following ten years. Pope was the
last Phi Gamma Delta at the school and was
himself without a chapter for most of his college
days, as the administration eliminated all After Chancellor Tucker’s ban on fraternities had
fraternities soon after he joined the Fraternity in expired, 10 of the next 14
1874 and only allowed their return in his final Chancellors/Presidents would each be a
year at the school in 1878.
member of a Greek-lettered fraternity:

W
ith a new Chancellor in charge
(Mell), The University rescinded Patrick Hues Mell (Sigma Alpha Epsilon);
its four-year rule preventing William Ellison Boggs (Chi Phi);
students from joining Greek- Walter Barnard Hill (Chi Phi);
letter secret fraternities. David Crenshaw Barrow, Jr. (Chi Phi);
Charles Mercer Snelling (Sigma Nu);
Of the first fraternities founded at Georgia, the Steadman Vincent Sanford (Kappa Alpha);
three primary rivals to Phi Gamma Delta (ΣΑΕ, Harmon White Caldwell (Chi Phi);
ΧΦ, and ΚΑ) seemed to have returned almost Henry King Stanford (Sigma Alpha Epsilon);
immediately when allowed; Phi Delta Theta, the Charles Boynton Knapp (Phi Delta Theta); and
fifth fraternity at Georgia, also. JERE WADE MOREHEAD (Phi Gamma Delta.)
The Scroll, the national publication of Phi
Delta Theta Fraternity, in September of
1878, noted that Σ.Α.Ε. and Χ.Φ. “succumbed” to the ban on fraternities” but our Chapter, as
well as the Kappa Alpha, stood up nobly, though, of course, it was not as prosperous as before,”
suggesting, that Phi Delta Theta’s Georgia Beta (later renamed Georgia Alpha) operated secretly
and underground throughout the prohibition. “So,” according to The Scroll, “the Beta next year
will enter upon a new era of prosperity and doubtless become one of our strongest chapters.
The Chi Phi and S.A.E. will try to organize again.”

These four of the five original fraternities were joined soon thereafter by Alpha Tau Omega in 1878 and
Sigma Nu in 1881.

No new Phi Gam initiates were reported from the Classes of 1878 until 1884, the former the year the
edict against fraternal organization was lifted and the latter the year of the Second Chartering of Kappa
Deuteron.



PHI GAMMA DELTA’S CALL FOR KAPPA DEUTERON’S REBIRTH.

The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, April 1881, p. 102:

THE SOUTH.
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ROTHERS OF THE SOUTH: Do you know the favorable conditions
existing in your part of the country for the rebuilding and extension of Phi
Gamma Delta? Do you know that the harvest is ready and awaiting the
reapers?

To us who are watching and working to advance in every way the welfare of the
fraternity, it seems as if the surroundings and prospects of all of the institutions of
learning in the Southern states are such, that all we need to our former ascendency, and to
take the foremost place among all the college fraternities, is someone to work ...

... MEN OF GEORGIA, your commonwealth is growing in wealth

and influence; your colleges are feeling the onward movement, and
Kappa Deuteron only waits some one of her past to use a trifling
effort to restore Her life ...

... We must become strong in the South. We belong there; our law and tradition are
largely the result of our Southern origin, and it is to be hoped that no effort will be
spared to recover the possessions which are our birthright.

One Brother of the early chapter rose to meet the challenge to breathe new life into the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter, Osborne Barnett (Class of 1874.) He is singularly most responsible for the re-birth of the
Chapter after it closed in the year of his graduation.

1883: ATTEMPT TO RESURRECT THE CHAPTER

DENIED.

O
n February 14, 1883, seven students at The University
of Georgia accepted the challenge that the Fraternity
had put forth, to “restore the life” of the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter, and they subsequently wrote the
Grand Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta expressing their interest in
reviving the chapter.

Fraternity records, however, DO NOT recognize these men as

initiates or members, as their request was ultimately rejected on
May 5, 1883, on the grounds that insufficient information about the
prospective members had been presented and a concern of the
Grand Chapter that the petitioners very well may have already Powell Frazer sought to
initiated by Brother Barnett, who served as Chapter President a resurrect Kappa Deuteron
decade before and who was present when The University banned in 1883. He was later
Kappa Deuteron of Phi Gamma Delta and all other fraternities from U.S. consul to Switzerland,
campus. appointed by Woodrow Wilson.

These men - many who rose to later prominence and who all at one
time proclaimed a fidelity to Phi Gamma Delta - were, nonetheless, alphabetically:
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• JOHN TALIAFERRO BROWN, a member of the Class of 1886 (along with Kappa
Deuteron Brothers Cousins, Bob Moye, Pitts and Peyton Wade.) Brown, born on
July 19, 1862 at Monroe County, Georgia, home place of Brother Bob Berner. In his
vocation, he was a farmer, butcher and grocer. He died May 16, 1933, Center,
Jackson County, Georgia and was buried there in the Stone Cemetery.

• FRANCIS JUDSON (FRANK) EBERHART, born April 9, 1861 in Oglethorpe

County, Georgia. He was a descendant of Jacob Eberhart of Oeschelbronn, Baden-
Wuerttemberg, Germany (Lutheran) who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1751, then
moved to Rowan County, North Carolina and eventually to Oglethorpe County,
Georgia. Brother Frank Eberhart - a farmer outside of Athens - died on October 7,
1941 at Arnoldsville, Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

• DR. EUGENE POWELL (POWELL) FRAZER, Class of 1886, born March 13,
1865 at High Shoals, Oconee County, Georgia. His father was a member of the
Georgia House of Representatives and a prominent Baptist layman.

After attending The University of Georgia, Kappa Deuteron petitioner Frazer

enrolled in the dental school of Columbian University in Washington, D.C.
[which in 1904, became a part of George Washington University - jtf] He
practiced dentistry in Washington, D.C. for several years before moving to Bibb
County, Georgia around 1909, where he was engaged farming, raising corn,
cotton, oats, peas, potatoes, wheat and other crops and breeding Tamworth pigs
with names such as “University Fairy,” “Macon Maid” and “Lady Frazer” (src:
Register of the American Tamworth Swine Association, 1913.)

F
RAZER WAS APPOINTED VICE CONSUL TO SWITZERLAND at
Lucerne by President William Howard Taft in 1912 and then was promoted
to Consul General at Vevey, Switzerland on June 24, 1913 by President
Woodrow Wilson.

In 1920, he was again living in Macon, Georgia and farming. In 1922, he was briefly
a candidate for the United States Congress. By 1930, he was in real estate in Los
Angeles, California. Dr. Frazer died November 14, 1939, Los Angeles, California
and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County,
California. A daughter, Grace Fredonia Frazer, married Robert Fager Black, who in
1935 became president of the White Motor Company, which built bicycles, cars,
buses, farm equipment and trucks from 1900-1980. White Company cars were used
by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft among others.

• EUGENE JACOB JACOBS was a member of The University of Georgia Class

of 1883, graduated on July 18, when he was one of seven students who
enthusiastically sought to bring back to life the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta. As a sophomore in July 1881 - when he was but 14 years old! -
Jacobs won second prize in the commencement ceremony debates, as decided by
Georgia Gov. Joseph Brown (src: The Southern Banner, Athens, Georgia,
Tuesday, April 15, 1879, p. 3.)
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s a senior at The University of Georgia, Eugene Jacobs - then
just 16 years of age! - wrote several enthusiastic and passionate
letters to the Grand Chapter in support of the 1883 application
for membership.

The 1883 petition to Phi Gamma Delta was endorsed by a member of the
faculty at The University of Georgia, local physician Dr. James M. Carlton -
one of the members of the original Kappa Deuteron Chapter. Nonetheless, the
petition to Phi Gamma Delta ultimately was denied by the Grand Chapter ...

After graduating from Georgia with a Bachelors of

Philosophy, Jacobs matriculated at the Philadelphia (Pa.)
College of Pharmacy in 1888, the first pharmacy school in the
United States founded in 1822. Born in 1867, Jacobs died on
January 22, 1931 at Birmingham, Jefferson County,
Alabama.

Jacobs was one of 12 children of Gabriel Jacobs, of Filehne in the

Posen area of Prussia, who arrived in Athens prior to The Civil War
and who was among the first Jews in the city. During The Civil
War, Gabriel manufactured caps and hats for Confederate soldiers.
He became the first “lay rabbi” for the first synagogue in Athens,
Kol Kadush Beni Yisroile and the Congregation of Children of Israel,
which was chartered in 1872.
Eugene Jacobs, 1893
The Atlanta Constitution newspaper called Gabriel Jacobs “one of Was among 7 students who
the most successful business men” in Athens. Pallbearers at wrote Phi Gamma Delta
Gabriel Jacobs’ funeral included Logan Bleckley, the Chief Justice of seeking to resurrect Kappa
the Georgia Supreme Court, Deuteron chapter in 1883
and Asa Candler, President
of The Coca-Cola Company.

Eugene, with his older brother Joseph Jacobs

(also, UGA) operated a pharmacy in Atlanta
where the world-famous Coca-Cola was first
sold and later about 20 pharmacies around
Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama. Joseph
apprenticed under the famed Georgia physician
Crawford Long (UGA, 1835, who is credited
with the first use of ether as an anesthesia.) In
1893, the Jacobs Brothers’ proclaimed their pharmacy was the largest in the
Southeast.

IT WAS AT THE JACOBS’ BROTHERS PHARMACY, at 2

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carbonated COCA-COLA beverage was first sold, for five pennies.

By 1911, Jacobs and his brother, Joseph, split their pharmacy business, Eugene taking
control of the Birmingham stores and Joseph the Atlanta-area pharmacies. Eugene
Jacobs “was instrumental in setting up” the Birmingham Jewelers and Silversmiths
Association.

The Breman Jewish History and Holocaust Museum, the Atlanta History Center in
Atlanta, Georgia and the Southern Jewish Historical Society house collections of
records from the Jacobs’s pharmacy and family.

• OSCAR EUGENE (OSCAR) KINNEBREW (1860-1897) was a senior when he

was among those who petitioned Phi Gamma Delta for a second charter in 1883 and
graduated from The University of Georgia that year with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
In the fall of 1883, he was hired as a salesman for The Banner-Watchman newspaper
of Athens. As of 1894, and probably before, he was a druggist in Athens, Georgia.
According to The Weekly Banner, Athens, Georgia, Friday, October 1, 1897, p. 7:
“He was a genial, popular and progressive young man and was greatly beloved by all
who knew him.”

• SCREVEN AARON MCCALL graduated from The University of Georgia in 1883

with a Bachelor of Law degree. He was born on January 25, 1861 in Valdosta,
Lowndes County, Georgia, died May 4, 1942 at Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas.

An attorney, he established a successful legal practice in Texas. In 1896, he ran for

but lost his bid for Montgomery County Judge. McCall was elected Montgomery
County District Attorney in 1899 serving until 1906, when he was then elected
Montgomery County Judge, a position in which he served until 1912. In 1929, he
moved to Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas. He later served as District Judge
from 1929-1933, serving Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto and Waller counties.

• JACOB (JAKE) STERN of Athens, Georgia - a childhood friend of fellow 1883

petitioner Eugene Jacobs [above] - worked in his father’s men’s clothing store in
downtown Athens, Stern Clothiers. Stern, Jewish, was a graduate of The University
of Georgia’s Agricultural and Mechanical College, Class of 1886. He was 15 years
old when he and six others petitioned Phi Gamma Delta for membership.

Stern was born in 1868 and died in 1940. According to The Weekly Banner, Athens,
Georgia, Saturday, June 30, 1894, p. 1, the Athens Alumni University Club was
established the day prior and Stern was among the charter members. In 1902, he was
among the founders of Athens Lodge No. 790, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

His father, Charles Stern, was a member of the Athens City School’s Board of Education at
the time of its establishment by the Georgia General Assembly, President of the
Congregation of the Children of Israel synagogue [Reformed] for 15 years and a director of
the Clarke County Building and Loan Association. The Stern family home was at the corner
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In early 1907, Jake Stern moved to New York City. By 1910, he removed to
Nashville, Tennessee (Skalowsky’s confectionary and ice cream parlor) but returned
to New York sometime thereafter and was living in Manhattan by 1930.

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ALAS, KAPPA DEUTERON RESTORED, IN 1884!
CHANCELLOR MELL ENCOURAGES THE
RETURN OF PHI GAMMA DELTA TO GEORGIA!
RECOMENDS SEVEN OF HIS STUDENTS TO THE FRATERNITY

On March 13, 1884 - about one year after the “1883 Seven” had sought to revive the chapter,
unsuccessfully - Chancellor Patrick Mell wrote to the Grand Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta in New York
to urge that the Fraternity return to campus, and he endorsed a second group of seven of his students to
“form a chapter” at The University of Georgia.

The original, transcribed handwritten letter by Chancellor Mell, which may be found in the Archives of
The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta in Lexington, Kentucky, read:

I
t gives me pleasure to testify that Messrs. Robert L. Moye, P. H. Adams, R. M.
Harbin, T. W. Harbin, J. P. Perry, J. W. Anderson, and W. H. Whipple are students in
this University; that they maintain high standing in their classes as scholars; and that
their moral character is unimpeachable.

They have my entire confidence, and I cordially commend them to your confidence. They
have my cordial consent to form a chapter of your Fraternity in this University.

Chancellor Patrick Hues Mell

<<<Request picture of original letter from International Headquarters>>>

With Chancellor Mell’s blessing, the hope of The Fraternity to awaken the Kappa Deuteron Chapter at
The University of Georgia would be realized.



KAPPA DEUTERON RE-CHARTERED ON APRIL 26, 1884.

Shortly thereafter, the following good news appeared in The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, May/June
1884 issue:

BORN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi

Gamma Delta. We welcome her to our order and extend to her our love. May she
prosper forever!



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Thus the seven “Second Founders” - recommended by Chancellor Mell and recruited by Brother
Osborne Barnett - who resurrected the chapter in Athens when they were made privileged to the secrets
of the order on April 26, 1884, were, alphabetically:

• Percy Hoyle Adams,

• James William Anderson,
• Robert Maxwell Harbin,
• Thomas Witherspoon Harbin,
• Robert Leiden Moye,
• John Philip Perry†, and
• William Holliman Whipple.

†- Perry was one of these seven petitioners, however, it appears he was never initiated; his
name appears on no rolls of the Fraternity (see below.)



JOHN PHILIP PERRY, ONE OF 7 PETITIONERS TO ASK PHI GAMMA DELTA

FOR A CHARTER TO RETURN KAPPA DEUTERON TO GEORGIA, NEVER INITIATED.

LATER PROMINENT LAWYER AND STATE LEGISLATOR FROM ELLIJAY

John Philip Perry†

Date of Birth: November 25, 1858, Ellijay, Gilmer County Georgia.

Date of Death: November 24, 1903, Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia, one day shy of his 45th birthday,
Burial: Ellijay City Cemetery, Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia.

Perry entered The University of Georgia in October 1882 as a

sophomore and joined Phi Kappa literary society.

Perry was among the seven students who petitioned the Grand Chapter of
Phi Gamma Delta for recognition in 1884, seeking a second charter for the
then-extinct Kappa Deuteron Chapter and who were commended to the
Fraternity by University Chancellor Patrick Hues Mell in a letter to the
Grand Chapter written March 13, 1884.

Perry, who graduated two months after the Chapter had been re-installed,
for reasons unknown, was not among those original seven initiated. There
is no record that Perry was ever initiated and no fraternity catalogue
published has ever included his name in the roster of members.

Perry was an attorney who also served two terms as Mayor of Ellijay,
Georgia. On Friday, August 31, 1886, he won the Democratic
nomination for the Georgia House of Representatives and served two terms, until 1890, according to
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“The Annuals of Upper Georgia, Centered in Gilmer County,” by George Gordon Ward, printed by
Thomasson Printing & Office Equipment Co., Carrollton, Georgia, 1965, p. 596.

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, September 28, 1890, p. 15:

MAYOR JOHN P. PERRY. It is always refreshing to a businessman to meet up with a

mayor who has the interest of his town at heart, and is ever willing to contribute to its
development. Such an official is Mayor Perry, a young lawyer of decided prominence,
who has served his people well as legislator and chief magistrate. He is a graduate of the
state university, Class 1884, and is well fitted for the practice. Having a strong hold on
public confidence, he uses his popularity for the best interests of the whole people.



KAPPA DEUTERON BROTHER BARNETT APPOINTED LEGATE

TO INSTALL NEW CHAPTER AND INITIATE THE 6 NEW FOUNDERS

Brother Osborne Stone Barnett - despite being suspicioned of precipitately inducting prospective new
members into the Fraternity in 1883 without the approval of the Fraternity - was appointed Legate by the
Fraternity to initiate the “Second Founders” in 1884, according to The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly,
published by Phi Gamma Delta, New York, 1886, p. 220

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KAPPA DEUTERON REVIVED: FROM 1884-1890!
BUT DISAPPEARS ABUPTEDLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY IN 1890.

MEMBERS OF KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER of PHI GAMMA DELTA, 1884

Standing, back row, left to right: Thomas W. Harbin, Allen P. Moye, Peyton L. Wade, E. Ingersoll
Wade, Asa W. Griggs, Percy H. Adams and Howell C. Strickland. Front row, sitting, l-r: William H.
Cobb, Robert M. Harbin and William H. Whipple.

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SIX 2nd FOUNDERS INITIATED ... FOLLOWED QUICKLY BY 8 NEW BROTHERS.

The Phi Gamma Delta, May/June 1884, published by The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, Greencastle,
Indiana, p. 203:

KAPPA DEUTERON.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.

May 23, 1884.

The Φ. Γ. Δ. Fraternity has but recently granted a charter to this chapter of the fraternity,
but already to the names of the six men to whom the charter was granted, have been
added the names of eight others, so that our chapter now has fourteen names on its roll.

The original ones to whom the charter was granted, are: R. L. Moye, P. H. Adams, W. H.
Whipple, J. W. Anderson, T. W. Harbin and R. M. Harbin.

Those since initiated are: Cobb, Hinkle†, Means, [Benning] Kennan [sic - Kennon],
[William A.] Kennan [sic - Kennon], Pitts, Strickland and [Peyton] Wade.

Our officers are: R. L. Moye, Π., P. H. Adams, ., W. H. Whipple, ., J. W. Anderson,
Γ.Α. and Peyton Wade, Cor. Editor.

We come out as a fraternity under the brightest auspices for our success in college life.
Bros. Hinkle and Strickland, two of our number, have been adjudged worthy by the
literary society to which they belong, to represent her in the coming spring debate ...

Our number is divided among the several classes as follows:

• Seniors, 2;
• Juniors, 6;
• Sophs., 3,
• Fresh., 3 ...

The Σ.A.Ε., Χ.Φ., Κ.Α. and Φ. Γ. Δ. are the strongest and most flourishing
fraternities here at present ...

Yours fraternally,
PEYTON L. WADE
Cor. Ed.

† - Brother Wade, in his report (above) as the chapter’s corresponding secretary to the Fraternity, names
Albert Butts Hinkle as one of the first initiates of the new 1884 chapter. Wade is clear in stating
Hinkle was duly initiated into the secrets and ciphers of Kappa Deuteron and was an individual well-
respected on campus.

However, I have found no record of Hinkle’s membership in any other records of the International
Fraternity or any subsequent Phi Gamma Delta membership directories. It is possible his name was
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removed from the records permanently for behavior at Georgia or for joining another Greek-lettered
fraternity [Phi Delta Theta} when he transferred to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (see
below) - jtf.



THE STRANGE STORY OF THE 8TH INITIATE OF

THE RE-CHARTERED KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER
WHO NEVER APPEARED ON ANY ROLLS OF THE FRATERNITY ...

... AND, WHO, MONTHS AFTER PLEDGING

FIDELITY TO PHI GAMMA DELTA,
JOINED PHI DELTA THETA AT VANDERBILT

A
LBERT HINKLE was a native of Macon,
Georgia, born in 1865, but spent much of his
childhood in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia.
His father, Dr. James Burney Hinkle, was a
physician and surgeon who served the
Confederacy during the Civil War, enlisting in the “Montgomery
(Ala.) True Blues.”

In early spring of 1884, as a student at The University of

Georgia, Hinkle became one of the first eight initiates of the
newly rejuvenated Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma
Delta, almost immediately after the Chapter had been re- Albert B. Hinkle
chartered. His initiation was noted by the Chapter in its
correspondence to the Fraternity at-large. Yet, his name is Among the first initiates of the
nowhere to be found in any other records of the Fraternity. newly re-chartered Kappa Deuteron,
within months, he transferred
While on summer to Vanderbilt and joined
break in 1884 - Phi Delta Theta, from which
very shortly after he was expelled for cheating.
his initiation -
Hinkle elected to
transfer to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee;
no concrete reason for his transfer is known.

While at Vanderbilt, Hinkle joined another college

fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, although he was already an
Dr. Albert Hinkle’s home on Orange Street initiated member of Phi Gamma Delta.
in Macon, Georgia, built by the doctor in 1900
In chapter correspondence from the Tennessee Alpha
chapter of Φ. Δ. Θ., dated October 6, 1884 and published
in The Scroll, the official Phi Delta Theta publication, Hinkle and his brother Eugene were named as
among the chapter’s newest members.

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The Scroll of December 1885, p. 111, however, notes that less than a year associated with Phi Delta
Theta, Hinkle had been expelled from their fraternity:

A
LBERT B. HINKLE, of Americus, Ga., became a member of Phi Delta
Theta in the the fall of 1884, and continued his membership until May last,
when evidence of his cheating during a final examination being produced, he
was, by vote of the chapter, requested to resign.

Refusing to comply, he was formally tried by the chapter on the charge that was brought
against him. He was represented by counsel of his own choosing and allowed to
introduce all the evidence in his favor that he had. After a long and careful trial, he was
expelled from the fraternity as unworthy to be associated with its members.

Leaving Vanderbilt, Hinkle entered Mercer University at Macon, Georgia, graduating with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1886, and he later received his Masters at that school. In the fall of 1887, Hinkle
enrolled in the medical department of the University of the City of New York (later New York
University) and earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine on March 12, 1889. In June, he returned to
Americus in medical practice with his father. He later became “the examining physician for a number of
secret orders,” according to the book, “Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form,” edited by Allen D. Candler and Clement A.
Evans, Atlanta, State Historical Association, 1906.

On December 21, 1892, Hinkle and his father were tried for the murder of Dr. Joseph J. Worsham, a
dentist and “one of the most popular citizens of Americus.” “J. B. Hinkle [says] that Dr. Worsham was
in the act of advancing upon him when he fired the first shot.” An initial coroner’s jury, however, found
both father and son guilty. “The feeling against (the Hinkles) was intense, and they were only saved
from mob violence by the prompt action of officers.” The Hinkles, “narrowly avoiding lynching,” were
arrested and hurried to jail followed by [a crowd] who were crying: ‘Hang them, burn them’.” An
ongoing hatred of Worsham lingered in the hearts of the Hinkles since the victim’s testimony against the
father in a lawsuit the week before over an unpaid bill.

Ironically, Robert L. Berner, one of the five Original Founders of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter in 1871,
was one of the attorneys who led the prosecution of the Hinkles. According to a contemporary
newspaper account of his closing statement, “[Berner] spoke for over three hours, closing with one of
the most powerful and effective appeals ever heard in this court” in the trial of the father.

Father and son were tried separately. In the first trial, the father was found guilty. Facing life in prison,
the father killed himself by poison. A detailed account of the incident may be found in The Americus
Times-Recorder, Americus, Georgia, Thursday, December 22, 1893, p. 1, “Dr. J. J. Worsham Killed in
Cold Blood by The Hinkles” and in The Americus Times-Recorder of Friday, February 2, 1894, p. 3.
Albert Hinkle was acquitted on January 18, 1895 and subsequently left his home in Americus to move
to Macon.

In 1913, Dr. Albert Hinkle, a man of small physical stature weighing about 100 pounds, was divorced
from his wife, the former Nita Lewis, the culmination of marital difficulties leading up to charges of
wife-beating - with clenched fist, she stated, and “cruelty” and striking his son. She also alleged neglect
and infidelity and that Hinkle had threatened to kill her. During an altercation on the evening of August

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30, 1913, he reportedly knocked down his mother causing her hip to break. Albert Hinkle’s son, James,
was quoted as saying that night that “He’ll kill her [referring to Dr. Hinkle’s wife and the child’s
mother] ... ”

Dr. Hinkle died on February 12, 1928 and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. Mason.

7 MEMBERS OF KAPPA DEUTERON AS CLASSES

BEGIN IN 1884; UP TO 13 BY EARLY 1885!

The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, February 1885, p. 185:

When the University opened on the 1st of October, our band of brothers numbered only
seven, but these seven are active and enthusiastic, and in consequence of their activity
and enthusiasm, our number has been increased to thirteen! We have initiated six
members; whom I now beg leave to introduce to our sister chapters as Brothers in every
way worthy to be welcomed into the sacred circle of our fraternity.

Bros. W. C. Cousins, O. E. Tate and E. W. Wade joined us shortly after college

opened; and Bros. A. C. Griggs, A. P. Moye, and B. P. Kimbrough have entered our
mystic union since the Christmas holidays.

Considering the fact that we have seven other fraternities to compete with and also the
number of eligible new men is rather smaller than usual, [we] have been very successful
in our endeavors. We do not, however, intend to rest on our laurels and grow sluggish,
but expect to take a share in other good things besides “new men.”

At present, we have five seniors, three juniors, three sophs, and two freshmen; and our
officers are: W. H. Whipple, , T. W. Harbin, , W. C. Cousins, , and W. H. Cobb,
..

... Our literary exercises are very interesting and improving. We have an essay or a short
address, and also a debate, the subject for debate being generally one which will be used
in one of the two literary societies on the Saturday succeeding our discussion of the
question. I had almost forgotten to say that we have three of our brothers connected with
the University Magazine ...

A few nights ago, we had a social entertainment in the fraternity hall in honor of
[Brother] Moye and after the repast the following toasts were proposed and drunk:

• W. H. Whipple, [to] K Δ chapter;

• R. L. Moye, To the Success of Φ.Γ.Δ. in the South and to three Southern

Chapters;

• W. C. Cousins, [to] The Fraternity at Large;

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 • W. H. Cobb, [to] Success of New Chapters; and

• P. L. Wade, [to] Success to the Φ.Γ.Δ. Journal.

Then, after eloquent addresses from Brother Moye and from Brother Cousins, we
adjourned, all delighted with December Journal, with best wishes for its future success.

KAPPA DEUTERON IN 1886

In 1886, all seems to be going quite well for the newly re-established Kappa Deuteron chapter.

In their correspondence to the Grand Chapter published

in The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January 1886, the
Athens Phi Gams wrote: In the senior class of 1886, more
than 80 percent were members of
“WELCOME AGAIN ... To the old members, we one of the Greek letter
extend our love and best wishes, and to our new brothers, organizations.
we send our congratulations.

The ‘Happy Twelve,’ as we now term ourselves, are in a most prosperous condition, and our future
outlook is most flattering. We begin the year with nine men, and since then three new initiates into our
ranks have been made ...”

The Chapter wrote: “The chapter hall should be designated a Prytaneum [When ancient Greeks went out
to found new colonies, they carried with them a torch from the Prytaneum altar to kindle the new fire of
the colony - jtf.]”

We began the year with nine men, and since then three new initiates into our ranks have been made.
Our number consists now of:

• R. B. Clark, ‘88
• W. C. Cousins, ‘86;
• A. W. Griggs, ‘87
• W. A. Kennon. ‘88;
• A. P. Moye, ‘87;
• R. L. Moye, ‘84 (Law);
• H. C. Strickland, ‘88;
• E. W. Wade, ‘88;
• P. L. Wade, ‘86.

Our new initiates are:

• W. B. Dixson (sic - Dixon), Jr., LaFayette, Ala., ‘89;

• W. L. Hodges, Jr., Hartwell, Ga., ‘87; and
• U. V. Whipple, Laurens Hill, Ga., ‘87.

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Fraternity work here has been lively, and we have got our pro-rata share of the good men.

Our chapter has just refitted one of the finest halls in the city [probably above a store front in
downtown Athens, such as Chi Phi later enjoyed above Talmadge's Hardware Clayton Street - jtf.] We
now have a room of which Φ.Γ.Δ.’s are proud.

Bro. P. L. Wade was elected class tree orator and responded in an essay in verse before a large
prominent journals of the state through their correspondents. Bro. Wade obtained a speaker’s place in
his junior year, and we may safely say that he ranks first in the University.

Our honors last term, which were obtained after the Journal ceased to appear, were: Bros. A. W. Griggs
as Sophomore Declaimer; P. L. Wade, Junior Speaker; and P. H. Adams, Senior Speaker and second
honor man.

Besides these we have obtained other honors, as public debaters, representatives on the editorial staff of
the University Reporter, and the like, for which we are deservedly proud.”



Three months later, in The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, April 1886, p. 135, Kappa Deuteron noted:

... “Since our last letter was written, K.∆. has been very successful in enlisting as
members of Φ.Γ.Δ., two men of whom we and the Fraternity at large can well feel proud.
Allow me then, Brother Deltas, to present to you two loyal Φ.Γ.Δ.s and such who are
well worthy of the Royal Purple.

Brothers John R. Evans ‘88, of Washington, Ga., and William M. Hawes ‘88, of
Thomson, Ga. Our number then for the year is 14 ... The link lost by Brother Moye’s
failure to return is perceptible to us all, which we deeply deplore. However, as it is we
wish our brother Godspeed in his undertaking.

We have moved along very nicely since our last, and have had some excellent meetings
in our newly fitted up hall.

Sickness has pervaded our ranks, however, and has caused the irregular attendance
for a time of Brothers Evans, Hawes, Hodges, and Whipple, who have had hard cases of
measles. We are glad to state that all are well at present writing, and K.∆. still continues
to move steadily along.

We take pleasure in stating that some of our members have been substantially awarded
meritorious places of honor since our last letter. Brother W.B. Dixson, our only but by
no means lonely Fresh, who by the way is about the only ball player of the Fraternity, has
been elected as one of the important players on the Fresh team. All these honors we are
proud of and feel sure that all brothers so elected will reflect great credit on themselves
the Fraternity and University.

The sophomore and junior Speakers places will soon be awarded wherein we hope and
believe we will be substantially recognized.

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 Our men were made glad by a visit from Brother Dr. John J. Hill, of Washington, Ga.,
a few weeks since. We have also had a visit from Brother L. S. Dearing, who resides
here in the city and keeps the books for the Athens Cotton Mills. We were all delighted
in having them with us and the fraternal love that they still retain. They in turn were glad
to be again in a Φ.Γ.Δ. Hall, and to be thrown in with fellow members. They spoke very
favorably of our chapter and her seeming good prospects. We are glad to notice from the
several chapters the high degree of success that each and every one is enjoying.

May they ever continue, thus is K.∆’s sincere wish. It appears to us that our Grand Old
Fraternity has assumed a remarkable spirit of enterprise of late. New chapters, new and
good initiates, new catalogue, song book, Quarterly, etc., are the order of the day.

Keep it up, brothers; it is the right spirit rightfully bestowed. We have our expectations
up to a high stand of Φ.Γ.Δ. at present and for the future. With fraternal regards to all
Φ.Γ.Δ.s, and best wishes for the Quarterly, we close knowing we will say more.



The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, July 1886, p. 209:

T
he members of Kappa Deuteron went into ecstasies of delight over the last issue of the
Quarterly, and proclaimed it, with a unanimous voice, the best fraternity organ ever seen in
Georgia. In view of the magnificence of the Quarterly, we anticipate a songbook,
proportionately worthy of the Fraternity, both in outward appearance and in contents.

Notwithstanding the fact that Brother U. V. Whipple was prostrated for three weeks by a severe case of
the measles, he was chosen by the Faculty on class stand[ing] as a junior speaker. He is pointed out by
everybody as the leader of the junior class and as a coming honor man.

The measles seem to have a special spite against Kappa Deuteron, as we lost two speaker’s places - one
of which would have been an honor - last year, by their sudden appearance in this college during Finals.
It is a singular coincidence that Brother Whipple was also stricken down by them during Finals. Brother
E. W. Wade has been chosen by the Faculty as sophomore orator for Commencement.

A fraternity in this college not long since, among other things said:

“We are well satisfied. We ARE the ‘CREAM’ of the college.”

Ere many days elapse, I fear the ‘cream’ will sour; for a sudden, unexpected clap of thunder has
somewhat agitated the cream.

K.∆. as usual is in good condition and has a better outlook for the coming year than ever before.

We number as follows:

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 • Law - 1;
• Seniors - 2;
• Juniors - 3;
• Sophomores - 5;
• Freshmen - 1.

Although three of our men will graduate the coming commencement, two of whom are journalists of no
inferior ability and the third of whom has attained an enviable reputation as a debater, we are not
depressed in spirit, as there will be left here men who will bear the Royal Purple on to victory and glory.
We have spotted many worthy men who will enter this college next fall and will proceed to give our
“goat” sufficient practice, so that no failure will be possible on the coming glorious occasions.

Our additional honors, to the ones enumerated above, are these:

• Brother P. L. Wade has been elected senior class poet,

• Brother W. C. Cousins, champion debater from the Demosthenian Society,
• Brother R. L. Moye, formerly chief of the southern section, and
• Brother U. V. Whipple now represents us on the staff of The University Reporter.

Quite an unusual amount of enthusiasm has been manifested at the rapid extension of the order and,
especially, at its new start southward.



At the beginning of the new school year, Kappa Deuteron’s correspondence to The Phi Gamma Delta
Quarterly, October 1886, p. 283, was published:

Once again, after a most pleasant vacation, we gladly resume, through the medium of the
Quarterly, our intimate connection with the Fraternity at large.

We began the new year with seven loyal enthusiastic Deltas, who are willing to do all
they can for K.∆.

We lost three men by graduation; two have not returned. Brothers Dixson, ‘89, Wade,
Hawes, Evans, and [William A.] Kennon, ‘88, and Hodges and [Ulysses V.] Whipple,
‘87, were counted in K.∆. Hall at our first meeting.

Since then we have presented to the famous “goat” Brothers G. Waters, Atlanta, Ga.,
‘87; Z. A. Crittenden, Shellman, Ga., ‘89; W. H. Williams, Hartwell, Ga., ‘89; and W.
D. Reid, Eatonton, Ga., ‘89. We take pleasure in presenting these new brothers to all
Φ.Γ.Δ.s as true and loyal Phi Gams.

As The Quarterly well knows, K.∆. bore off her share of honors last commencement:

Brother P. L. Wade ‘86 delivered the Class Poem besides obtaining a

speaker’s place. Brother Cousins ‘86 represented us on the Champion
Debate. On Junior Day, we were represented by Brother Whipple while
Brother E.W. Wade bore off second medal for sophomore declamation.
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This year, besides being well represented on the editorial staff of The University
Reporter, and holding various and important offices in each literary society, we hold
important positions on the staff of officers of each class. On the whole, K.∆’s prospects
are very bright and encouraging.

We have received no official report of the proceedings of the Springfield Convention as

yet. So far as we can hear, however, we cannot fully agree with the Convention in some
things. Still we trust that all is for the best. We will gladly answer any letter directed to
us by any chapter or brother.”

Fraternal regards to all, and best wishes for the Quarterly.



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 THE SEVEN “SECOND FOUNDERS”

OF THE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER

OF THE FRATERNITY OF PHI GAMMA DELTA
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Brothers Listed Alphabetically within Graduating Class Year

Percy Hoyle Adams

Date of Birth: March 28, 1865, Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia.

Date of Death: July 21, 1929, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 64 years old.
Burial: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.

Adams entered The University of Georgia in October 1882 as a sophomore. He was a member of the
Demosthenian Society and was elected, also as a sophomore, as a class declaimer for graduation
ceremonies in 1883. Adams was a “Second Founder” of
the re-chartered Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma
Delta as a junior and initiated when the chapter was
installed on April 26, 1884. Also, in his junior year, he was
selected as an orator during the 1884 commencement and
later also as a senior, during his own graduation on June
16, 1885, an honor bestowed by the faculty to those with
the highest academic standings in the class.

The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, February 1885, p.185:

Brother P. H. Adams secured two speaker’s places

for the junior class commencement, one for class
standing and one for composition, and reflected
great credit both upon himself and his chapter on
that occasion. He was elected by his class to
deliver the class tree oration, this being a well-
deserved compliment to his excellence as a writer
and speaker. His effort fully met all expectations
and was highly applauded ...
An illustration of Percy Hoyle Adams from
His senior class poem, “Haec olim meminisse juvabit,” a The Atlanta Constitution, April 22, 1894
title taken from the Aeneid, which translates approximately
as: ‘It will please (us) one day to remember these things,’
was delivered at the planting of the Senior Class tree on
North Campus on December 8, 1884 and was reproduced in its entirety in The Phi Gamma Delta
magazine of February 1885, p. 151. In the April 1886 edition of The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly,
Adams’ six-page essay, “What Will He Do With It?” was published: “Scholarship alone is but a wooden

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staff. Add to your scholarship pluck and perseverance, and you have the same staff shod with iron, and
it will last a lifetime.”

After graduating from Georgia, Adams accepted an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point, New York. The University Reporter, University of Georgia, Sunday, October 25, 1885, p. 2: “...
Adams will go to West Point.” The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly,
January 1886, p. 57: “P. H. Adams has stood his examination for a
cadetship at West Point, and will leave for that place sometime in
March. He is now at his home in Washington, Ga., engaged in his
studies.”

His father was John Quincy Adams (UGA 1859; Demosthenian) - of

Wilkes County, Georgia - who served in the Confederate Army in the
63rd Georgia Regiment. He was promoted to Captain. In his reply to
the 1901 questionnaire on the occasion of The University of Georgia’s
Centennial Anniversary, he wrote of his war experience:

“Was badly wounded in Confederate war - never will get over it or forgive the miserable fools
who forced war upon us - the biggest, fool-war ever since the world was created.”

Brother Adams moved to Atlanta after his schooling and joined the law firm of Mason & Hill. He was
an attorney in private practice in downtown Atlanta (Marietta Street office) before being appointed
federal bankruptcy judge (“referee”), in which position he served for more than 25 years. Lived at 35
Muscogee Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.



The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” November 1929, p. 213:

PERCY H. ADAMS
(Georgia ‘85)

One by one the members of old Kappa Deuteron Chapter at the University of Georgia are
passing to the stars. The latest name to be written among those ad astra is that of Percy
Hoyle Adams (Georgia ‘85), who died at his home in Atlanta, Ga., on July 21, 1929.
Brother Adams was ... the son of a distinguished Georgia family whose home occupied
the present site of Agnes Scott College. For more than 20 years he was federal referee in
bankruptcy for the north Georgia district.

After his death, his widow, Charlotte Greene, married Daniel Burke in 1951, a New York lawyer who became
Chairman of the R. T. French Company [French’s mustard, etc.] and was President of the American Bible Society
for almost 20 years. Burke, a graduate of Hamilton College (1893), was a trustee for the school and the library
there is named in his honor.

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Dr. James William (Will) Anderson

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Date of Birth: January 23, 1865, Jones County, Georgia.
Date of Death: January 3, 1936, Gray, Jones County, Georgia, of pneumonia, age 70.
Burial: Hillsboro Baptist Church Cemetery, Hillsboro, Jasper County, Georgia.

A “Second Founder” of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, initiated April 26, 1884 as a
senior upon receipt of the chapter’s second charter. Graduate, Bachelor of Arts, The University of
Georgia on July 16, 1884. Graduate, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, New York, 1887.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January 1886, p. 58:

KΔ ’84. James W. Anderson of Cornucopia, Ga., is now at Bellevue Hospital Medical

College, New York City. Bro. Anderson was quite popular with Georgia boys, and we
know that he will gain many warm friends in New York during his stay.

Career: Brother Anderson was a physician who practiced medicine in Clinton and Gray, Jones County,
Georgia, for 50 years. President, Jones County Medical Association. Methodist. Mason.

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Dr. Robert Maxwell Harbin

Date of Birth: December 10, 1864, Fair Play, Oconee County, South Carolina.
Date of Death: December 12, 1939, Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, two days after his 85th birthday.
Burial: Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.

Brother Harbin entered The University of Georgia in October of 1882. Member, Demosthenian Society.
With six others, including his brother Thomas Witherspoon Harbin,
he was one of The “Second Founders” of the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, chartered April 26, 1884, as a junior.

Graduate, Bachelor of Arts, The University of Georgia, June 16,

1885. The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January 1886, p. 57: “...
One of K.Δ’s most energetic workers is reading medicine
preparatory to entering Washington and Jefferson Medical
College.” Graduate, M.D., Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
New York City, New York, 1888.

Harbin was a physician for many years in Rome, Georgia and, in

1908, established the Harbin Hospital there with a younger brother,
William Pickens Harbin (UGA, 1894, ..) Brother Harbin was
author of several medical texts, including Health and Happiness:
An Analogical Study of Disease and Sin, 1908, and Paradoxical
Pain, 1916

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The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” April 1940, p. 546:

ROBERT MAXWELL HARBIN

(Georgia ‘85)

Robert Maxwell Harbin (Georgia ‘85), a physician for almost half a century, died at Rome, Ga.,
on December 12, 1939. He was one of the founders of the American College of Surgeons in
1914-15. Born in Fair Play, S. C., on December 10, 1864, he moved early to Gordon County,
Ga. After obtaining his A.B. degree at The University of Georgia, he was a student at the old
Bellevue Medical College, New York, getting his M.D. degree in 1888. Then he returned to
Calhoun, Ga., to practice with his father and in 1894 began his work in Rome. He and a brother
founded Rome’s first hospital in 1908 and gave it their name. Among his relatives was a Fiji
brother, the late Thomas Witherspoon Harbin (Georgia ’85,) a charter member of Kappa
Deuteron Chapter and later prominent in northern Georgia judicial circles.



Thomas Witherspoon (Tom) Harbin

Date of Birth: September 3, 1862, Fair Play, Oconee County, South Carolina.
Date of Death: March 8, 1937, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, age 74.
Burial: Fain Cemetery, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia.

Education: Entered The University of Georgia in October of 1882

with his younger brother Robert Maxwell Harbin. Tom Harbin chose
Phi Kappa literary society while his brother chose Demosthenian.
Brother Harbin was the business manager for The University
Reporter, a weekly publication of the two literary societies.

With his brother Robert and five

others, he was a “Second
Founder” of the Kappa Deuteron “ ... A young man of
Chapter in 1884. Tom, then a exceptional characteristics
junior, was initiated April 26, of mind and heart, being a
1884, when the chapter received Christian gentleman ...”
its charter. He was an officer of
the Chapter in 1885. Graduate,
The Atlanta Constitution,
Bachelor of Arts, The University
Atlanta, Georgia,
of Georgia, June 16, 1885.
Saturday, June 28, 1890, p. 7.
Thomas W. Harbin was elected Ordinary Judge (now called probate
judge) of Gordon County, Georgia in January of 1893 and served until 1904. He was secretary of the
Georgia state association of ordinaries in 1894.

In July of 1914, Judge Harbin announced his candidacy for Georgia state Senate. The Calhoun Times,

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Calhoun, Georgia, Thursday, July 30, 1914, p. 4:

Judge Harbin has been a leader in public affairs for the past twenty years. He was
ordinary of the county for twelve years and filled the office to the satisfaction of the
voters and the benefit of the county. His long experience in politics, his thorough
knowledge of the needs of the people, and his wide and influential acquaintance
throughout the state qualify him for the great responsibilities of the office of Senator.”

Harbin won the Democratic nomination for the Georgia 43rd Senate District on August 19, 1914 and ran
unopposed in the general election on November 3, 1914, elected to represent parts of Gordon and
Whitfield counties until 1917. On September 12, 1916, Sen. Harbin ran for the Democratic nomination
for the Seventh Congressional District of Georgia but lost by 5,000 votes.

A businessman, too, Brother Harbin was an organizer, in 1908, and president of Echota Cotton Mills,
Calhoun, Georgia and was Vice President of the Calhoun National Bank.

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The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” May 1937, p. 709:

THOMAS W. HARBIN
(Georgia ‘85)

Thomas Witherspoon Harbin (Georgia ‘85) died on March 8, 1937, at Calhoun, Ga.,
where he was born on September 2, 1862. He was an early member of the now inactive
Kappa Deuteron Chapter at University of Georgia. He served ... as judge of the court of
ordinary. Among his survivors is a Fiji brother, Robert M. Harbin (Georgia ‘85), head of
the Harbin Hospital in Rome, Ga.

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Robert Leiden Moye

Date of Birth: April 9, 1864, near Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia.

Date of Death: December 26, 1937, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, age 73.
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia.

Brother Moye entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1882. He became a member of the
Demosthenian Society, and, as a senior, his classmates elected him “Class Poet.”

Moye was a “Second Founder” of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at its Second
Chartering in 1884. In his senior year, he served as chapter president. Later, he served as Section Chief
for Phi Gam chapters in the Southern Region, 1885-1886, and attended the Fraternity’s 21st Convention
at Easton, Pennsylvania October 26-28, 1885. He also contributed to the Fraternity’s Phi Gamma Delta
magazine as the “Southern Editor/Associate Editor.”

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For a time, Brother Moye wrote for The Atlanta Constitution newspaper, according to The Phi Gamma
Delta magazine, October 1884, which also stated he planned to enroll in the Harvard School of Law.

In 1886, Moye was a member of the first Board of Editors of The Pandora, the fraternity-published
UGA yearbook, which was the second collegiate annual in the South. He was also editor of The
University Reporter, a weekly, student-run newspaper produced by the literary societies.

Moye graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the summer of 1884. He then entered the
University’s Department of Law in the fall of 1885 and graduated July 21, 1886 with a Bachelor of Law
degree.

Moye’s younger brother, Allen Pettit Moye, was also a

member of the second-chartered-incarnation of Kappa
Deuteron.

Brother Moye was the Mayor of Cuthbert, Georgia

and served fourteen consecutive terms in that
capacity, before retiring in 1903:

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Georgia, Friday,

January 2, 1903:

MAYOR MOYE LEAVES OFFICE

“ ... His administration has been progressive

and conservative. Under it, Cuthbert has
prospered as never before. Water works,
electric lights, telephones, a new railroad,
chartered banks, manufacturing enterprises,
new hotel, new school buildings, new
Photograph of Brother Robert L. Moye, churches, parks and any amount of
taken at the Georgia Capitol, on the floor of residences, business houses, and general
the House of Representatives during his improvements have been inaugurated.”
second period of his service to that institution.
Moye was the editor of The Liberal-Enterprise
newspaper of Cuthbert, August 1897-December
1900. His predecessor was his fraternity Brother Oscar Crittenden.

He served in the Georgia House of Representatives, 1919-1922 and again from 1931-1935, and in the
Georgia state Senate, 1925-26. In 1921, he introduced legislation to require the publication of a list of
lobbyists seeking to influence the Georgia General Assembly.

In his long career in public service, he also served as attorney for the city of Cuthbert and for Randolph
County; he was clerk of Randolph County Commissioners and President of the Randolph County Board
of Education.

THE TOWN OF MOYE, GEORGIA, WAS NAMED IN HIS HONOR. Mason. Knights of Pythias.
He was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church for almost 50 years. Member, Board of Trustees, Andrew

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Female College, Cuthbert, Georgia.

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Dr. William Holliman Whipple

Date of Birth: March 26, 1865, near Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Georgia.
Date of Death: September 8, 1917, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia, 52 years of age.
Burial: Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia.

Brother Whipple entered The University of Georgia in the fall of

1882. He was a member of the Demosthenian Society and, as a
senior, editor of The University Reporter newspaper. He was
among the seven “Second Founders” of the re-born Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, initiated April 26, 1884,
when he was a junior. Later, he became president of the chapter.

Later, he was also elected Section Chief of the Atlantic region by

the Fraternity, overseeing the chapters in Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia:

“This brother deserves a toast at the hands of every man in

the Atlantic Section, for the whole-souled way in which he
goes about his work. Would that we all were as zealous for the cause as is our honored
chief,” The Phi Gamma Delta, July 1886, p. 207,

Whipple was a graduate, Bachelor of Arts, of The University of Georgia, June 16, 1885. Graduate,
M.D., Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, New York, March 11, 1889. He became a well-
known and highly regarded pharmacist, physician and surgeon at Vienna, Georgia (1889-1896) and then
at Macon (1896 until at least 1915). From 1897-1899, Dr. Whipple was the official City of Macon
physician and surgeon.



MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1884

Brothers other than the “Second Founders” of the

re-chartered Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta

Dr. Benning Moore Kennon

Date of Birth: June 9, 1862, near Floyd Springs, about 12 miles north of Rome, Georgia in Floyd
County.
Date of Death: June 28, 1940, McRae, Telfair County, Georgia, of diabetes, at age 76.
Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery, McRae, Telfair County, Georgia.
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EDUCATION: Member, Phi Kappa Society. Member, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta and
of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1884. In 1884, Kennon left The University of Georgia before
graduation to enroll at Eastman’s Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York.

CAREER: By 1886, he was the owner and operator of an “extensive saw mill and lumber business” at
Hoboken, Georgia, near Waycross, according to the Phi Gamma Delta magazine, April 1886, p. 147.
Later he entered the Atlanta Medical College, Atlanta, Georgia, antecedent of Emory University’s
School of Medicine, graduating on March 4, 1889.

KENNONS AND PHI GAMMA DELTA

His parents were John William Kennon and Sarah Cobb Moore. She was a daughter of Thomas Moore, a native
of Prince Edward County, Virginia, born about 1782 and who died in
Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, and Martha Susannah Benning, his
second wife; Miss Benning was a daughter of John Benning and Sarah
Cobb. Sarah Cobb (Moore) Kennon’s brother, Robert Hughes Moore,
married Mary Ann Matilda Kennon.

Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Brother William Augustus Kennon was

Benning Kennon’s nephew and a son of Benning’s brother Henry
Thomas Kennon and his wife Mary Rachel Crawford.

Benning Moore Kennon’s father, John William Kennon, was a son of

Warner Lewis Kennon and Ann Gartrell. Her father was John Gartrell,
who died in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1827. A brother of John
Gartrell, Jeremiah, was the father of Ann Eliza Gartrell who married
William Sammons Grady, and they were the parents of Henry Woodfin
Grady and Martha Nicholson (Mattie) Grady, wife of William Augustus
Kennon who was also nephew of Benning Moore Kennon. Henry
Woodfin Grady III married Kappa Deuteron 1980s “sweetheart” Kim
Kilgo.

A brother of Benning’s grandfather Warner Lewis Kennon, William

Warner Kennon was the great-grandfather of Virginia Mamie
(Kennon) Walker, wife of Kappa Deuteron Brother Henry Bradford
Walker. [See “Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of A Family,” by Merrow Egerton Sorley, Genealogical
Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1935.]

The Kennons, the Cobbs, the Gradys, the Lamars family trees are all intertwined with one another (a daughter of
John Benning and Sarah Cobb, Sarah Cobb Benning, married Peter Lamar, related to the Lamar family that
produced Kappa Deuteron’s Lavoisier Ledran Lamar, for example.)

The world’s largest army base, Fort Benning, near Columbus, Georgia, is named for Confederate General Henry
Lewis Benning (UGA 1834), a son of Pleasant Moon Benning and Matilda Lewis White, he being son of John
Benning and Sarah Cobb. Henry Lewis Benning was temporary chairman of the Georgia State Convention that
adopted the resolution to succeed from the Union in 1861.

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Some researchers trace this Benning family to Huguenot Francois Benin (born around 1675 in France, died 1710
in what place later became a part of Goochland County, Virginia.)

For 50 years, Brother Kennon was a physician practicing in McRae, Telfair County, Georgia. He also
operated a pharmacy there. Member, Medical Association of Georgia and the Ocmulgee Medical
Association. Mason. Methodist.

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James Richard (Jim) Williams

Date of Birth: July 19, 1859, Meriwether County, Georgia.

Date of Death: December 19, 1916, Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, of pneumonia, age 57.
Burial: Ellaville Cemetery, Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia.

EDUCATION; Member, Demosthenian Society. Member, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma
Delta, initiated in 1884. At the 1884 graduation ceremonies, he successfully led the Demosthenians
against the Phi Kappas in the affirmative on the question: “Resolved, the choice of president by popular
vote is preferable to an election by electoral college.”

Williams received his Bachelor of Law degree from the University on July 15, 1884. The Phi Gamma
Delta Quarterly of April 1886 reports: “James R. Williams is practicing law at Ellaville, Ga. and from a
private letter we learn he is quite successful.”

Williams married Sarah (Sallie) Cheney on June 10, 1888 at Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia.
From The Marion County Patriot, Buena Vista, Georgia, Friday, June 15, 1888, p. 3 we learn that:

T
here was some little excitement at Ellaville last Sunday night on account of a
runaway marriage, the parties to the affair being Mr. Jim Williams and Miss
Sallie Cheney. There was great opposition to the match by the parents of the
bride, though when two young people set their heads to get married such
opposition is useless ...

Last Sunday night at prayer meeting, just after the first prayer and while a hymn was
being sung, Miss Cheney deliberately walked out of the church and got into a buggy,
which was in readiness by a pre-arrangement, and the pair drove rapidly in the direction
of Oglethorpe, fearing they would be followed if they had gone to Americus.

CAREER: Williams began the practice of law first at Washington, Wilkes County Georgia and then at
Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia. He was also engaged in real estate. In his time in Schley County, he
also owed a cotton and corn plantation and vineyard of about 1,000-acres “which out-rivals the most
fanciful ideas one may have of the grape culture in sunny California,” according to The Americus Times
Recorder, Americus, Georgia, Sunday, September 13, 1891, p. 2. On July 21, 1894, he was
unanimously nominated by Schley County Democrats for a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives
and was elected by the people of that district to that office on October 3, 1894.

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Excerpt from The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, August 19, 1894, p. 9:

MEN OF THE HOUR IN GEORGIA.

HON J. R. WILLIAMS, who will represent Schley, is a Meriwether boy, born in that county of
agriculture and politics in 1859 ... When he was ten years
old, young Williams moved with his father’s family to
Schley. He was given the benefit of a collegiate education, “ ... Mr. Williams is one of the
graduating from the University of Georgia in the law class best known and ablest
of 1884. lawyers in south Georgia.”

While at Georgia, he was one of the champion debaters of The Atlanta Constitution,
the Demosthenian Society. He began at once the practice Atlanta, Georgia,
of law in Schley county and has been successful from the Thursday, March 28, 1907, p.
start. He is a good speaker and a sound debater and did A-6.
excellent work for the party in the contest two years ago.

In 1896, Brother Williams moved his family to Americus, Georgia, and there he continued the practice
of law, spending the last 20 years of his life there. In the spring of 1907, he announced that he would be
a candidate for the position of solicitor general of the four-county district of the Southwestern judicial
circuit. The next year, he was appointed by Governor Hoke Smith to fill the that vacancy, receiving his
commission on December 9, 1908 for a four-year term beginning January 1, 1909, and won election
twice thereafter, serving until his death in 1916.

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MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1885

Brothers other than the “Second Founders” of the

re-chartered Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta

Howard/Harwood/Hugh/Augustus Ca(r)son?

Date of Birth: ?
Date of Death: before 1913, according to The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, May 1913, p. 75 (which
includes the fraternity’s tenth membership catalogue.)
Burial: ?

Possible member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and of The University of
Georgia’s Class of 1885, according to records of the International Fraternity, which gives his name as
Howard A. Carson.

However, there is no record of an H. A. or Howard or Hugh A. Carson (or Cason) of any class in
The Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of Georgia, at
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Athens, Georgia, From 1785 to 1906, E.D. Stone Press, 1906 and other University records consulted –
jtf.

Nor is he included among the graduates of The University of Georgia in 1885 as listed in The Augusta
Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Friday, July 17, 1885, p. 8. Nor is his name included among the list of 44
graduates of that class in The History of The University of Georgia, by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter :
“The Administration of Chancellor Patrick H. Mell,” University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949,
p. 1202 of the original typed manuscript.

It is possible if not probable that he is the same person as Robert Augustus Cason, but misidentified
in fraternity records. The father of Robert Augustus Cason was Augustus Hugh Cason, perhaps
contributing to the confusion - jtf


Dr. Robert Augustus Cason

Date of Birth: July 10, 1861, Warren County, Georgia.

Date of Death: November 29, 1929, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, 68 years old.
Burial: Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery, Rayle, Wilkes County, Georgia, in which cemetery fellow
Kappa Deuteron John R. Evans is buried.

EDUCATION: Brother Cason entered The University of Georgia in 1884. He joined the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering on June
16, 1885. He was among at least four Phi Gamma Delta Brothers who attended the Class of 1885’s 40th
Reunion in Athens (along with Percy Adams, Robert Harbin and Thomas Harbin.) After graduating
from UGA, Cason matriculated first at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, and then at
Louisville Medical College, Louisville, Kentucky, which was later absorbed into the University of
Louisville in 1908. Graduated, Louisville Medical College in 1886.

CAREER: Brother Robert A. Cason was a physician. “The Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni
and Matriculates of the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, from 1785-1906,” E. D. Stone Press,
Athens, 1906, reports he was practicing medicine in Jewell/Jewell’s/Jewells Mill/Rock Factory/Shivers
as the town was called in different times, in Warren County not far from Hancock County line, Georgia.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, July 1886, p. 222: “[Kappa Deuteron] ‘85. Harwood (sic) A.
Carson, graduated from Kentucky Medical College this year, and is now practicing his chosen
profession at Apalachicola, Florida.” [Is this him? See notes on H. A. Ca(r)son above.]

The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, May 1913, p. 75, (which included the fraternity’s tenth membership
catalogue) reports Brother Cason was “living in Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia” at the time of the
catalogue’s compilation. Brother Cason also appears in both the 1910 and 1920 censuses in Warren
County, Georgia; between the two censuses, he also practiced in Atlanta, Georgia, about 1915.

By 1925, Dr. Cason had moved to Oak Hill in Volusia County, Florida, then to Miami and Dade City,

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Florida (src: The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Sunday, June 14, 1925, p. 10) and later to
Tampa, Florida, in which town he died in 1929.

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Captain William Henry Cobb

Date of Birth: June 30, 1859 in the Belmont area of south Hall County, Georgia, just south of
Gainesville, Georgia.
Date of Death: October 29, 1931, Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia, at 72 years of age.
Burial: Old Brick Church Cemetery, Huttonsville, Randolph County, West Virginia

Education: Cobb spent two years at the North Georgia Agricultural College [later North Georgia
College and State University and at one time designated as the
Military College of Georgia but now The University of North
Georgia, Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia.]

He transferred to The University of Georgia about 1883. At

The University of Georgia, Cobb was a member of the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta and
president of the Chapter in 1886. He graduated from The
University of Georgia on June 16, 1885 with two degrees:
Bachelors of Arts and Bachelor of
Philosophy.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly,

January 1886, p. 57: “W. H. Cobb,
has secured a fine position as
Professor in the higher branches of
study in the Georgia Female
Seminary at Gainesville, Ga. [later
Brenau College - jtf] For one so
young, Bro. Cobb has good
grounds for congratulation.”
Brother William Henry Cobb
Subsequently “he took a course in and his son Elihu
law and located in southern Florida (from Adam Owens/findagrave.com)

William Henry Cobb, for the practice of his profession,”

as depicted in according to “A History of Randolph County, West Virginia, from Its Earliest
The Augusta Chronicle, Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time,” by Dr. A. S. Bosworth,
newspaper in 1890 1916, p. 409.

Excerpt from The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Tuesday, June 17,
1890, p. 5:

CAPT. W. H. COBB

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 Capt. W. H. Cobb is 30 years old; was born and reared on a farm in Hall county; got a
common school education in the old field school; spent two years at the North Georgia
Agricultural college at Dahlonega, where he got his military training; completed his
education at the State University at Athens in the Class of 1885; after graduation, taught
one year in the Georgia Baptist Female seminary at Gainesville, Georgia. He then read
law and has been doing a good practice for three years.

Capt. Cobb was selected Captain of the Piedmont Rifles [of Gainesville, Georgia] at its
permanent organization and has been the captain of the company ever since.” The
Piedmont Rifles was the senior company of the Ninth Georgia Battalion and the only
volunteer company in northeast Georgia - jtf

Career: Brother William Henry Cobb was an attorney, author, businessman, civic leader, educator,
historian, mayor, and military leader.

In 1887, The Phi Gamma Delta magazine reported that Cobb was practicing law in Gainesville, Georgia.
He lived in Gainesville until at least 1889? or so.

“The History of Randolph County, West Virginia, by Hu Maxwell, p. 409:

Capt. Cobb was reared on the typical Southern plantation on the Oconee
River ... With military mind, talent and training, Capt. Cobb has always
had a native bent toward the profession of arms. [In 1898] when war
with Spain was declared, he raised a company in his home town of
Arcadia, which became a part of the Third Regiment, U.S. Volunteers.
Capt. Cobb’s command saw service in Santiago and Guantanamo,
Cuba. He has held commissions from President of the United States
and from governors of three states and was preparing to enter the
service in the recent anticipated unpleasantness with Mexico. At the
close of the Spanish American War, Capt. Cobb’s company was
mustered out, and he located in Elkins to practice the profession of
law.”

By 1901, he was a member of the Elkins, West Virginia city commission and later was elected Mayor of
Elkins. In 1910, Brother Cobb was a founder of the Chenoweth Creek Lumber Company of Elkins and,
in 1920, the Cobb Coal Company of Randolph County.

According to his grave marker, he was the founder and president of the Randolph County (West
Virginia) Historical Society. Also, member, Georgia Historical Association and the Virginia Historical
Society.

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William Lane Means

Date of Birth: October 28, 1863, near what became Elko, Georgia about 10 miles southeast of Perry,

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Georgia, in Houston County, Georgia.
Date of Death: July 2, 1942, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, 77 years old.
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.

Education: Brother Means entered The University of Georgia in 1884 as a member of the Class of
1885. He was a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. He left school prior to
graduation to teach at the Bradberry Academy not far from Athens. Means then taught, briefly at the
Butler Male and Female Academy in Taylor County,
Georgia. Later in 1885, he was living in Spoonville,
Houston County, Georgia and was the Postmaster for the
town.

In 1902, he was awarded a patent for a “new and useful”

device to harvest cotton from the fields [U.S. Patent No.
711,410, October 14, 1902.] Also in 1902, his general
merchandise store near Spoonville, Houston County,
Georgia, was destroyed by fire.

Mr. and Mrs. William Lane Means He was a farmer and a founder and president of the
(via Frank Christmas/ancestry.com) Grovania-Elko Telephone Company and a founder of the
Grovania Fertilizer and Oil Company, which produced
cottonseed oil and housed a cotton ginnery and guano plant.

Means moved to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia in 1905, where he was president of the W. L. Means &
Company. According to his obituary in The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Friday, July 3, 1942, p.
A-9: “He was in the cotton business here until he retired.” He also was a founder of the Capitol Savings
Bank of Macon on April 17, 1910.



MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1886

William Richard Camelious Cousins

Date of Birth: October 21, 1865. [One obituary states that he was a native of Meriwether County,
Georgia. Other sources have suggested he was born in Clayton, Douglas or Fayette counties.
Date of Death: August 19, 1953, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 86 years old.
Burial: Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, DeKalb County, Georgia, at the
intersections of Wesley Chapel Road, Snapfinger Creek Road and Rainbow Drive.

Education: Brother Cousins was a member of the Demosthenian Society literary society. He also
served as a member of the first Board of Editors of The Pandora yearbook in 1886. Cousins was a
member of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, in its second iteration, initiated in
October of 1885; he served as an officer of the Chapter in 1884 or 1885. The Phi Gamma Delta
Quarterly, April 1886, p. 135: “Brother Cousins has been elected a commencement champion debater
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from the Demosthenian Society, fully evincing his merit and popularity.” He graduated in 1886 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree.

His father was Isaac William Cousins. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Bennett, who was a sister of Rachel
Loieduski “Loie” Bennett who married William Thomas Waters, and Mrs. Waters was the mother of Kappa
Deuteron Brother Glen Waters. Therefore, William Richard Camelious Cousins and Glen Waters were first
cousins as well as Brothers in Phi Gamm Delta.

Career: According to “The History of the

University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed;
Chapter IX: The Administration of Chancellor
Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1201 of the original typed
manuscript: “William Cousins (was) for many
years a well-known member of the Atlanta bar.”
According to his obituary in The Atlanta
Constitution, he “opened offices in the old Law
Building here in 1892 and continued his law
practice until he retired” in the 1930s.

For a time, he served as an aide to Georgia Gov. William

Brother Cousins, UGA 1886,
displaying his Phi Gamma Delta badge
posted at findagrave.com
Yates Atkinson (UGA 1877), who was governor for two
terms from 1894-1898, whom he may have met through The
University of Georgia or the legal “fraternity” or through
Meriwether County circles; Gov. Atkinson was a fellow
graduate of Georgia, an attorney and a native of Meriwether.
Gov. Atkinson later appointed fellow Phi Gam and for Kappa
Deuteron Chapter Founder and first Chapter President,
Robert L. Berner, to the post of Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd
Georgia Regiment during the Spanish-American War.

Gov. Atkinson’s wife, Susan Cobb Milton, who was kin of the Cobb family of Athens, was related
to several Kappa Deuteron Brothers. Sarah Cobb Moore, for example, was the mother of
Benning Moore Kennon and grandmother of William Augustus Kennon. Mrs. Atkinson was also
kin to the Lamar family that produced Brother Lavoisier Ledran Lamar and the Moore family,
into which William Moore Crane married.

A brother of Cousins, Rufus Clifford “Pete” Cousins, was the great-grandfather of Thomas Grady
“Tom” Cousins (UGA 1952,) a prominent Atlanta builder, owner of the Atlanta Hawks, the
Atlanta Flames and the Atlanta Chiefs and developer of the CNN Center, 191 Peachtree, the
original Georgia World Congress building and the Omni arena, which stood until it was torn
down for Philips Arena. In 2006, Tom Cousins was named one of the “Greatest Atlantans of the
Past 45 Years,” by Atlanta magazine- jtf.

In 1927, Brother Cousins and his wife were living at 5 Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta. By 1940, he was
living on Lake Bennett Road in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia. According to the City Directory
for Atlanta, Georgia in 1951, he and his wife were living at 1929 Boulevard S.E. in Atlanta, near where
the U.S. Federal Penitentiary is now located.

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Logan Robert Pitts

Date of Birth: April 7, 1864, near Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, according to his grave
marker.
Date of Death: May 6, 1932, Calhoun, Gordon
County, Georgia, 68 years old.
Burial: In the Pitts family mausoleum at Fain
Cemetery, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia [Fellow
Kappa Deuteron Brother Thomas Witherspoon Harbin
is also buried in this cemetery - jtf.]

Education: Pitts entered The University of Georgia in

1884 and was a member of the Class of 1886, though
it does not appear that he persisted under graduation.

Logan Pitts married Mary Flora McDaniel on June 11,

1890 at Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia. Fellow
Phi Gamma Delta Brother Robert Maxwell Harbin
was one of the groomsmen in the wedding at the
Calhoun Methodist Church.

Brother Pitts “has been teaching a private school ...

[but] has gone into farming,” according to “The Phi
Gamma Delta Quarterly” in 1886. According the
1900 U.S. census of Gordon County, Georgia, he was
a “dry goods merchant” at Calhoun, Georgia; he
operated stores in Calhoun under the names of “Hicks Logan Pitt, center, front row.
& Pitts” and Calhoun City Council, 1889.
“King & Pitts”
for 20 years. In
Calhoun, he became an alderman (city councilman) before
becoming mayor of the city on January 14, 1904. With his
Fraternity Brother Thomas W. Harbin (UGA 1885,) he organized
Echota Cotton Mills in Calhoun on September 18, 1907. Harbin
was the mill’s first president.

In 1908, Brother Pitts was the Democrat Party nominee for the
43rd Senate District of Georgia (now a district west of Atlanta,) in
which seat he served 1909-1910, representing Gordon and
Whitfield counties, Georgia. [From 1915 until 1916, this Senate
seat was held by Kappa Deuteron’s Tom Harbin - jtf.]

In 1922, Pitts won the Democratic primary and, subsequently, the general election for the Georgia
House of Representatives, and he served from 1923-24. Pitts received 890 votes more than all his

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opponents combined.

Pitts was also a cotton buyer in Calhoun, from 1899 to 1932, for Crown Cotton Mills of Dalton,
Georgia, which employed almost 1,000 workers by 1916 and, of which, he was director for many years,
including at the time of his death. He served as member of local board of education and was a charter
member and later president of the Calhoun Civitan Club.

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Peyton Lisby Wade

Date of Birth: January 9, 1865 at the homestead of his grandfather, “Lebanon Forest,” in Screven
County, Georgia, about 15 miles southwest of Sylvania, Georgia.
Date of Death: August 29, 1919, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 54 years of age, of influenza. The
Georgia State Capitol was closed in acknowledgement of his death and in recognition of his many
contributions to the state.
Burial: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.

Education: Peyton Wade was a graduate

of Boys High School in Atlanta, Georgia.
He entered The University of Georgia in
the spring of 1881 but left school
because of problems he was having with
his vision.

He returned as a sophomore three years

later on February 20, 1884. In 1885,
Wade was awarded a place as a junior
speaker for graduation exercises. As a
junior, Wade was a member of the staff
of The University Reporter (a weekly,
student-run newspaper published by the
literary societies.) He became the
Reporter’s editor in his senior year. In
1886, as a senior, Wade was elected by
his classmates as “Senior Poet” and he
was chosen as the Senior Class Orator.
He was also a member of the first Board
of Editors of The Pandora student
yearbook, the first collegiate yearbook in
the Deep South. His poem, “Alma
Mater,” was a featured and popular poem
in that first edition in 1886.

Wade was a member of the Phi Kappa literary society and became a member of the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta by 1885; he served as the corresponding secretary (editor) for the chapter.

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He was a contributor to first edition of “Songs of Phi Gamma Delta,” a collection of 47 songs compiled
for the 22nd General Convention at Springfield, Ohio in October 1886. In the April 1886 edition of The
Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, pp. 80-85, his address at the planting of the Senior Class Tree on North
Campus of The University of Georgia on November 20, 1885, was reprinted in full. Wade also served
his Fraternity as Section Chief for “Atlantic Section” in 1887, which region included the chapters at
Roanoke (Beta Deuteron), Hampden-Sydney (Delta Deuteron) and The University of Georgia (Kappa
Deuteron.)

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TWO BIOLOGICAL BROTHERS OF PEYTON WADE were also fellow Kappa Deuteron Brothers:
EUGENE WASHBURN WADE (born 1868) and EDWARD INGERSOLL WADE (born 1870.)

Another brother, Robert Maner Wade, Jr. (born 1876) was initiated as a member of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon at The University of Georgia, after Phi Gamma Delta had - without explanation -
disappeared abruptly from campus in 1890.

Peyton Wade married Augusta Georgeanna (Gussie) Black on April 13, 1895 in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Georgia, daughter of Georgia Congressman George Robison Black, whose father was
also a Member of Congress, Edward Junius Black.

Mrs. Peyton (Gussie) Wade’s cousin, Eugene Pinckard Black, married Miss Harriet Zachariah
(“Zac”) Harman, a sister of Charles Edward Harman, one of the Original Five Founders of the
Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at The University of Georgia in 1871.

Some sources suggest Brother Wade’s paternal ancestors date to around 1640 in the Tidewater
area of the Virginia colony.

Career: After his graduation from The University of Georgia, Brother Wade became the principal of the
Dublin Academy in Dublin, Georgia, starting this assignment on September 6, 1886. He later became
editor of The Dublin Post newspaper, 1887- 1888.

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Peyton Wade studied law at Sylvania, Georgia under his uncle Ulysses Perkins Wade, who was a law
partner with Brother Wade’s future father-in-law George Robison Black.

In 1888, Peyton was admitted to the practice law in November and then practiced law at Athens for six
months. In 1889, he returned to Dublin and continued his practice there until February 4, 1914. For a
short time in 1897, he was in partnership in Dublin with his uncle Ulysses Wade under the name Wade
& Wade until his mentor died in November of that year. For a time, Brother Wade served as city
attorney for Dublin and county attorney for Laurens County, Georgia.

While practicing law in Dublin, Georgia, Brother Wade donated hundreds of books from
his extensive, personal library to the Carnegie Library in Dublin. In 1918, Wade donated
1,300 books to The University of Georgia, which was the “largest single gift of books to
the school from any donor at that time” (src: The Weekly Banner, Athens, Georgia,

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 Friday, May 16, 1919, p 5.) After his death, his wife bequeathed 335 volumes from his
library to Oglethorpe University, Atlanta.

On February 4, 1914, Gov. John M. Slaton appointed Wade to fill a vacancy on the Georgia Court of
Appeals. On February 9, 1914, at the Georgia state Capitol, Wade was sworn in by Gov. Slaton.

“Jack” Slaton and Peyton Wade were friends from their days together at Boys High School in
Atlanta and as roommates at The University of Georgia. Wade was a Phi Gam man and Slaton a
Chi Phi, both were members of the Phi Kappa Literary Society and in their vocation, both
barristers. In 1895, Slaton served as Wade’s only groomsman at the latter’s wedding.

Judge Wade was elected without opposition as the Democratic nominee for the Court of Appeals on
August 19, 1914 and later that year won the general election in November 1914. He won election to the
Court again on November 7, 1916 for a full six-year term and, in June of 1916, he was elevated to the
position of Chief Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals and served in that position until he died in
1919.

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“A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians,” by Lucian Lamar Knight, v. 4, 1917, published The
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, New York, p. 2023:

There has not arisen in the State of Georgia within the present generation a more brilliant
or accomplished lawyer or a finer citizen than Hon. Peyton L. Wade, associate judge of
the Court of Appeals.

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The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia. Sunday, August 31, 1919:

IN THE PASSING OF PEYTON L. WADE, chief judge of the Georgia Court, death
removed a personality [and] man of exceptional character. He was a man of rare
attainment and judicial caliber and a citizen who was not only loved by everyone but
whose life was an inspiration to others and whose life was an inspiration to others ...

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 MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1887

According to the 1887 Pandora, “The average age is twenty, the oldest man is twenty-seven, the
youngest sixteen, their average weight is one hundred and forty-five pound, the heaviest man
weighs one hundred and eighty-six, the lightest one hundred and thirty.” Twenty-seven graduates
and all but three were members of one of the eight fraternities.

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Rufus Brown Clark

Date of Birth: December 16, 1866, Hall County, Georgia.

Date of Death: July 3, 1918, Washington, D.C., 51 years old, of cerebral hemorrhage.
Burial: Alta Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia. A 30-year veteran of the United States
Army, Clark’s grave marker is inscribed: “He was also enlisted in the Army of the Lord.”

Education: Rufus Brown Clark entered The University of Georgia in 1884. Later that year, he received
an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York from the Ninth Congressional
District of Georgia. However, it does not appear that he enrolled at West Point at that time.

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Wednesday, August 13, 1884, p. 2:

THE WEST POINT CADETSHIP.

GAINESVILLE, August 12 - (Special.) -

There were three entries for the contest for
the cadetship at West Point in the ninth
district, to wit: Messrs. Rufus Clark, Charles
Lahatte and ______ [I could not decipher
the first name from the microfilm - jtf]
Johnson. They all stood creditable
examinations but the prize was borne away
by Mr. Clark, son of Oliver Clark ...

Instead, Clark remained at The University of

Georgia, but not, perhaps, continuously. He joined
the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at least by 1886, possibly initiated on February 2,
1886, and he at that time a member of the Class of 1887.

Brother Clark re-applied to West Point on February 17, 1886 and was accepted on June 12, 1886 on
the recommendation of U. S. Rep. Allen D. Candler and enrolled July 1, 1886.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, June 1886, p. 223:

R. B. Clark is now at Highland Falls, New York, preparing to enter the U. S. Military
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 Academy in June. We predict for Bro. Clark unbounded success, as he is a thoroughly
solid man, mentally and morally.

However, almost exactly a year later, on June 17, 1887, Clark was
dismissed from the Academy for “deficiency in math and English.” On campus at The
University of Georgia in
The Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of 1891, Brother RUFUS
the University of Georgia, at Athens, Georgia, from 1785 to 1906, BROWN CLARK was
E. D. Stone Press, 1906 indicates that he returned to The University perhaps the last remaining
of Georgia later in 1887. Phi Gamma Delta of the
Kappa Deuteron Chapter,
According to The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, September 1889, p. as the chapter inexplicably
252: retired ad astra.

[At Georgia, Clark] held the highest office in the military

department of any member of his class, and he has been
promoted to the highest office held by a junior. He has been
president of the Demosthenian Society and was one of the spring debaters, making a
good speech upon that occasion.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, October 1891, p. 308 later states: “R. B. Clark, ’91, has left college
and entered the State Technological School at Atlanta.”

Though Brother Clark never graduated from West Point or Georgia, but determined to be a military
man, he later rose through the ranks of the regular army to achieve the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the
United States Army.

Career: At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Brown volunteered for service in the United
States Army on April 30, 1898. On July 28, 1899, he became a private in Company I of the 37th U.S.
Volunteer Infantry until August 4. By 1900, he was stationed in the Philippines, according to 1900
federal census. On June 21, 1901, President William McKinley appointed Brother Clark as First
Lieutenant. He served in 37th Infantry Volunteers until 1911. Clark was then assigned as Captain on
March 3, 1911 to the 11th Infantry until June 4, 1916. He was appointed Major on August 3, 1917 and
later to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

In his career in the Army spanning 30 years, Lt. Col. Clark’s final assignment was with the
Quartermaster Corps in Jeffersonville, Indiana from 1916 until his death in 1918.

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Walter Lee Hodges

Date of Birth: May 25, 1867, Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia.

Date of Death: October 21, 1930, Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia, age 63.
Burial: Northview Cemetery, Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia. His fellow Kappa Deuteron Brother,
Warren Hafed Williams, is also interred here.

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Education: Brother Hodges was a member and vice president of the Demosthenian Literary Society.

When the two famous literary societies at The University of Georgia, Phi Kappa and the Demosthenians,
put up their best debaters for the annual Champion Debate during commencement week of 1887,
Brother Hodges represented the Demosthenians and his fellow Brother in Phi Gamma Delta Glen
Waters was a representative of Phi Kappa.

Brother Hodges was also associate editor of The University Reporter, the weekly newspaper published
cooperatively by literary societies. Hodges joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter in 1885. In 1886,
Walter was the chapter’s corresponding secretary. He graduated from The University of Georgia in July
1887 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. A year later, he added a second degree, a Bachelor’s of Law, from
the then-named Lumpkin School of Law at the school.

Career: In September 1889, Brother Hodges was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia. That year, he
was also elected as an alderman (city councilman) for the city of Hartwell, Georgia, and subsequently
mayor. From 1900-1901, Hodges served in the Georgia House of Representatives. From 1903-1911, he
was the judge of the Hartwell City Court.

In the fall of 1916, Hodges was appointed judge of the Superior Court of the Northern District of
Georgia by Gov. Nathaniel E. Harris (UGA 1870, Chi Phi and Phi Kappa), and, for three consecutive
terms thereafter, was elected without opposition (1919, 1923, and 1927.) Hodges was sworn in on
January 1, 1917 and served until his death in 1930. According The Hartwell Sun, Hartwell, Georgia,
Friday, October 24, 1930, p. 1:

[Hodges] was recognized as one of Georgia’s leading jurists and frequently was called
into service in Fulton and other counties of the state. His judgments were rarely reversed
by higher courts.

Judge Hodges served as chairman of the Hart County Democratic Party Executive Committee. He was a
member of the Kiwanis Club and the Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias, a Mason and a Methodist.

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The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” December 1930, p. 256:

Walter L. Hodges
(Georgia ‘87)

A STALWART SON OF THE OLD KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER at The

University of Georgia has passed ad astra. Walter Lee Hodges (Georgia ‘87) died
suddenly in Elberton, Ga., on October 21, 1930.

Brother Hodges was born on May 25, 1867. After his graduation from college, he led an
active life at the bar and on the bench. He served a term as mayor of Hartwell, Ga., and
later went to the state legislature. He became judge of the superior courts of the northern
circuit in 1917 and was recognized as one of Georgia’s leading jurists.

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 Gamma Tau Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at Georgia Tech was represented by a
delegation at the funeral.

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Allen Pettit Moye

Date of Birth: January 26, 1866, Randolph County, Georgia.

Date of Death: February 23, 1917, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, of gun-shot wounds, age 51.
Burial: Rosedale Cemetery, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia.

Education: Allen Pettit Moye entered The University of Georgia in

1884 as a sophomore. He joined the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity,
initiated soon after Christmas 1884.

Allen Pettit Moye was the younger brother of Kappa Deuteron

“Second Founder” Robert Leiden Moye.

He was a member of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1887 but

left school in 1886 and did not return. According to The Phi Gamma
Delta Quarterly, April 1886, p. 148:

A. P. MOYE is at home in Cuthbert, Ga., where he is engaged

in assisting his father in his extensive planting interests. With
Brother Moye’s energy, we know that he will succeed
admirably in any undertaking in life. Brother Moye has
promised us a visit at the coming Commencement, which we
most anxiously await. Come! You shall be gladly welcomed,
and promised a royal time.

Brother Moye married Lila McDonald Tumlin, daughter of Chester Lewis Tumlin. Moye was shot to death by his
father-in-law during an argument in which Moye was presumed drunk, hostile and threatening. Brother Moye
had five children.

Career: Moye was elected Trustee for the Bethel Male College (Baptist,) Cuthbert, Georgia by 1893;
the school appears to have closed before his death. He was a member of the Cuthbert City Council, at
least by 1908. He was also a Randolph County Commissioner and a member of the Board of Trustees of
the Cuthbert public schools. In 1910, he owned a grocery and dry goods store in Cuthbert, Georgia and
was also in the insurance business.



The Cuthbert Leader, Cuthbert, Georgia, Thursday, March 1, 1917, p. 1:

TRAGIC DEATH

Mr. A. P. Moye Killed By His Father-in-Law;

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 Later Considered Justifiable by Coroner’s Jury

Our citizens were shocked last Friday morning by the tragic

death of Mr. A. P. Moye, which occurred about 11 o’clock.
He was shot and killed by his father-in-law, Mr. C. L.
Tumlin, at the Tumlin home, where Mr. Moye, also,
resided.

A short time afterwards, Coroner Hermann impaneled a

jury and held an inquest. The evidence of members of the
household showed that Mr. Moye had been drinking
heavily the night before and on that morning. He had acted
as though crazed by drink and was frightening the female
members of the household when Mr. Tumlin and Mr.
Guyton Moye, son of Mr. A. P. Moye, went where he was
to quiet him.

Mr. Moye seemed to resent this, and threatening to cut Mr.

Tumlin’s throat, started towards his father-in-law with an
open knife. Guyton Moye grappled with his father in an
attempt to get the knife, but the latter wrenched away,
The Atlanta Constitution,
when Mr. Tumlin fired, three bullets entering Mr. Moye’s
Saturday, February 24, 1917, p. 8.
breast and causing almost instant death ...

We, the jury, find the deceased, A. P. Moye, came to his death by pistol shot by C. L.
Tumlin, fired in self-defense ...

[Pettit] leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters, a father, and three brothers and other
relatives as well as a host of friends who lament his death.

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Glen Waters

Date of Birth: June 4, 1868, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, according to census records although
some sources suggest he was born in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia.
Date of Death: November 26, 1895, Manhattan, New York, 28 years old, of pneumonia brought on by
cerebral spinal meningitis.
Burial: Fayetteville City Cemetery, Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia.

Education: Glen Waters attended the Ivy Street grammar school (est. 1872) in Atlanta, Georgia, and
graduated from Boys High in Atlanta, also the high school alma mater of Kappa Deuteron Brother
Peyton Wade.

WATERS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY

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Waters entered the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland on May 17, 1883, nominated by South
Carolina’s U.S. Sen. James Henry Hammond, apparently a family friend. Waters was no model cadet,
however, receiving almost 30 demerits in his first year from July to December, for such offenses as
“lounging on a hammock,” “untidy dress, “absence at roll call,” and tardiness.

Eventually, Waters was expelled from the Naval Academy after proceedings
of a court martial trial found Waters and three other cadets guilty of charges
of hazing that occurred in January of 1885. The decision was appealed but
that appeal was denied on March 5, 1886, and Waters was officially
dismissed on March 16, 1886.

DISMISSED FROM ANNAPOLIS,

WATERS THEN ENROLLS AT GEORGIA

Thereafter, he entered The University of Georgia and soon joined the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and was initiated into that secret
organization in the fall of 1886.

At The University of Georgia, Waters thrived. He was elected Class Poet. He was a “rusher” for the
Georgia football team [a “club” team then, six years before Professor Charles Herty introduced varsity
football to Athens] and played right field for The University of Georgia baseball team in 1887. He
became one of the seven men who constituted the Board of Editors for the second edition of The
Pandora yearbook in 1887.

In Reed’s “History of the University of Georgia,” p. 1241,

the author writes:

The college annual had made its debut at the

University of Georgia, the first volume had been
quite a success, and the fraternities decided to bring
out [a second volume.] That is all the fraternities
backed up the enterprise except Sigma Alpha Epsilon

... The first step was to reduce the number of editors

from two representatives from each fraternity to one
each ... These seven boys were pretty good fellows
and did a good job ...
Drawing by Brother Glen Waters
THERE WAS ONE GENIUS IN THE CROWD,
for the UGA 1887 Pandora
GLEN WATERS, who later on was a journalist for
a few years and died in his youth.

At Georgia, Waters also joined the Phi Kappa literary society in October 1886. In 1887, when the two
literary societies at Georgia put up their best debaters for the annual Champion Debate during
Commencement week, July 13, 1887 ...

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 ... Waters represented Phi Kappa while his fellow Phi Gam fraternity Brother Walter Hodges
represented the Demosthenian Society ... the school’s two best debaters [receiving] the highest
honor that can be conferred by the societies ... we naturally feel proud to be represented by a
brother from each society,” according to The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, July 1887, p. 199.

Waters graduated from The University of Georgia in July of 1887 with a Bachelor of Chemical Science,
First Honor Graduate.

WATERS’ CENSURED GRADUATION SPEECH OF 1887

Brother Waters was chosen by the faculty to give one of the commencement speeches in July 1887, in
part for his academic standing; Brother Ulysses Whipple was chosen to give another.

Waters’ developed a speech entitled “Evolution,” which put forth the general thesis that scientific
explanation for human development is not inconsistent with acknowledgement of a Holy Creator.

Submitted, as required for approval by the faculty and administration, his speech was censured: points
he considered essential to his thesis, the administration demanded he remove. He refused and appealed
to the Board of Trustees, which rejected his request. He was, therefore, prevented from giving his
proposed commencement speech, but the incident drew quite a bit of public attention.

According to “The History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed, p. 1257:

WATERS HAD THE BRIGHTEST MIND IN HIS CLASS. He was not an eloquent
orator, but what he said challenged attention. He was scientifically inclined, and he was
dealing with a subject that had given him trouble ...

While Waters’ proposed speech drew rebuke from the University administration, it was praised by
newspapers across the state, including The Atlanta Constitution, later, his employer.



The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 15, 1887, p. 3:

HE DID NOT SPEAK.

An Atlanta Orator Comes Into

Collision With The University Trustees.

M
r. Glen Waters, of Atlanta, has been a student at the University of Georgia
for a year or two, and at commencement, just closed, graduated with high
honors. He was awarded the first honor in the course of Bachelors of
Science. Taking such a high stand, Mr. Waters, of course, obtained a
speakers’ place, and in looking about for a subject upon which to write his oration, he
selected the interesting theme of “evolution.”

Preparing his speech with great care, Mr. Waters submitted it to the professor of belle

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 lettres, as the law requires, in order that that gentleman might pass upon it, and see that
no objectionable allusion or reference was made to topics the board of trustees had
decided could not be discussed by students on the commencement stage.

One or two paragraphs in the orations were objected to as containing improper allusions
to religious topics, and Mr. Waters was ordered to strike these paragraphs out. He
refused to accede to the demand, on the ground that it would ruin his speech to strike out
the paragraphs, and he appealed to the board of trustees.

It is said that the board did not read the speech of Mr. Waters but, attaching an order of
the board upon the subject, the manuscript was returned to the young orator. He is said to
have persisted in his refusal to change the speech, and, the faculty remaining firm also,
the result was that Mr. Waters did not speak at all.

The chancellor, in calling his name upon the stage, stated that he was honorably excused,
and when the diplomas were given to the graduates, Mr. Waters received his along with
the rest of the young men.

The offending portions of Waters’ graduation speech included:

N
ow what does our Bible say? It teaches that in the beginning
there was a creation in which the ordinary course of nature
was departed from, and from the dust of the ground, God
created two parent forms.

The human race has been perpetuated according to a natural and

invariable law - by the regular operation of natural forces.

Evolution says that God created parent form - life has been perpetuated
and differentiated by the regular operation of natural law.

But are we, because we affirm the existence of a law, compelled to deny
the existence of a law giver? If so, evolution is a fancy and a delusion.
Now, what is there in this theory that conflicts with Christianity?

Do we deny God when we say that the planets move and the winds blow
and the lightnings flash and the thunders roar ‘by regular operation of
natural law?’ Wherever law reigns, must God be excluded?

Then will He very soon be relegated to a vanishing point; for advancing

science is rapidly reducing all things to ‘the reign of law?’ Must we
believe that God is lawless, capricious, and in our world, and active in it
only ‘by fits and starts?’ Or is it not sounder theology to accept Him as
orderly in his modes and energizings ...

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Editorial from The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, July 18, 1887, p. 4:

MR. GLEN WATERS AND HIS GRADUATING

SPEECH THAT WAS NOT DELIVERED
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 ... [I]s not “evolution” a proper subject of investigation in the classroom of our
state university and of discussion in the literary societies and of commencement
speeches?

It is a subject belonging to the purely physical sciences, assuming that these

include archaeology, paleontology, comparative anatomy and biology, and is to
be studied by the purely scientific method ... ?

We surely have not practically learned the lessons that the past has taught, if we
still persist in banning a scientific doctrine on the ground that it smells of heresy.

Besides, what right has a state university to determine a student’s right to

graduation or to any literary or scientific honors on the ground of his heresy or
orthodoxy?

To claim such right is surely an exemplification of the union of church and state
with a vengeance ...

We plead for larger views on the part of our university authorities and for larger
freedom of thought and speech for our students. Scientific investigation must not
be impeded by the theologic bias. Let scientific studies be presented without
trammel, according to the scientific method, and let truth be the object of our
intellectual search.

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AFTER UGA, WATERS APPOINTED TO TRIBUTES TO WATERS ON HIS DEATH

U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT
WATERS was “... one of New York’s
After his graduation from The University of Georgia in brightest newspaper men ...”
1887 and notwithstanding his earlier dismissal from the
Naval Academy, Waters was nominated and accepted “... one of the most gifted writers of
into the U.S. Military Academy (Army) at West Point,
the South. His intellectual resources
New York in January 1887, nominated again by South
were simply marvelous, and he never
Carolina U.S. Sen. Hammond.
lacked for bright and sparkling ideas.
He thereafter successfully enrolled at West Point. His imagination was vivid ...”

Brother Waters’ father was William Thomas Waters and his A “clever writer” and “a man of very
mother Rachel Loieduski “Loie” Bennett; his mother’s sister few words and exceedingly quiet
and his aunt, Mary Elizabeth Bennett, was the mother of demeanor ...”
fellow Kappa Deuteron Brother William Richard Camelious
Cousins. “... one of the most brilliant
newspaper men that ever lived in
Career: After graduation, Waters was the Atlanta Atlanta ...”
correspondent for The Macon Telegraph. Of one
prominent state legislator, Waters wrote in 1891 of his
remarks concerning the re-drawing of state Senate districts:

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 I had intended to say nothing in reply to Dr. Chappell of Laurens in reply to his friends in
the legislature. First, because there was really no provocation or excuse for calling him
‘stupid’ or ‘long-eared’ ... none, that is, beyond the fact that he really is stupid and long-
eared ...

Waters’ then worked at The Constitution, where he was hired by Henry Woodfin Grady and editor-in-
chief Evan Howell.

While Waters was a reporter covering the Georgia General Assembly, his
fraternity brother Bob Berner was a member of the Georgia House of
Representatives.

In 1892, another story written by Brother Waters reportedly offended

another politician who demanded the journalist retract the article, which he,
not surprisingly, refused to do. The result led to an agreement to a duel in
Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery on January 28, 1892, which did not take
place. It was stated the next day in The Atlanta Constitution newspaper that
Judge Newsom did not show but Newsom told the newspaper that was not
true and that he was ready to “kill or be killed.”

In early spring of 1892, Waters moved to New York City to seek his
lodestar in the journalistic Temple of Fame. In New York, he was
associated with Joseph Pulitzer’s The New York World, William Randolph
Hearst’s The New York Morning Journal, The New York Commercial
Advertiser founded by Noah Webster and The New York Morning
Advertiser, forerunner of The New York Globe.

A fellow Brother in Kappa Deuteron, Warren Hafed Williams, wrote of Waters in 1894, “I was
particularly pleased to see what strides our Georgia boys are making in the journalistic fields of New
York. I had the pleasure of spending time in New York this summer with Glen Waters ... the star
reporter of The Advertiser and ... one of the best writers in town. He has won enviable esteem of the
head men on the paper by hard work and clever writing.”

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Ulysses Virgil Whipple

Date of Birth: February 26, 1868, Wilkinson County, Georgia.

Date of Death: June 3, 1948, Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia, 80 years old.
Burial: Sunnyside Cemetery, Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia.

Education: Ulysses Virgil Whipple was a graduate of the Gordon Institute in Barnesville, Georgia, then
a primary school but now a four-year college, Gordon College. Whipple entered The University of
Georgia in the fall of 1885. That year, he was selected as business manager of The University Reporter,
the weekly student newspaper initiated by the literary societies at Georgia. Late in 1885, he was
inducted into the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. On October 16, 1886, Whipple became

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president of the Phi Kappa literary society and was a featured Junior Class Speaker at graduation
exercises that year.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, July 1886, p. 209:

Notwithstanding the fact that Brother U. V. Whipple was prostrated for three weeks by a
severe case of the measles, he was chosen by the faculty, on class standing, as a junior
speaker. He is pointed out by everybody as the leader of the junior class and as a coming
honor man.

Brother U. V. Whipple now represents us, on the staff of The University Reporter.

Ulysses Whipple was elected Senior Class Orator, was a First Honor Graduate of The University of
Georgia, receiving his B.A. degree in July of 1887 and was a featured senior commencement speaker.

The History of the University of Georgia, by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration of
Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1257 of the original
typed manuscript:

The senior orations on July 13, 1887, graduation day, were

delivered by ... U. V. Whipple and Glen Waters.

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“The History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter

Reed, p. 1259:

[Whipple was] one of the ablest of his class, became a

lawyer of high standing.

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In 1889, Brother Whipple received a Bachelor’s of Law degree from

Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C. On June 9,
1890, he graduated from Georgetown Law with a Master’s of Law.
Whipple was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Georgetown.
Ulysses Virgil Whipple
Ulysses Virgil Whipple had an older brother, William Holliman
Whipple (Class of 1885) who was also a member of Phi Gamma Delta’s Kappa Deuteron Chapter.

Career: Following his graduation from The University of Georgia, from 1887-1888, Whipple taught
school at Scotland, Telfair County, Georgia and then at Cochran [at the time part of Pulaski but now
Bleckley County - jtf] before enrolling at Georgetown. While attending law school in Washington,
D.C., he was employed by the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency. Leaving Washington, Whipple moved to Vienna [pronounced VĪ´-anna], Dooly County,
Georgia, where he was admitted to the state Bar and began the private practice there in law.

On January 11, 1893, Whipple was appointed county judge of the Dooly County Court by Gov.
William J. Northen [src: The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday,
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January 19, 1893, p. 4,] a position he held until October 3, 1896, when he was elected to the Georgia
House of Representatives, serving 1897-1898. In April 1897, he moved to Cordele, [pronounced core-
DEAL] and entered into a law partnership, establishing the firm Thompson & Whipple.

With the creation of Crisp County, Georgia, on August 17, 1905, Whipple became the first county judge
for the new county. A year later, in 1906, at the establishment of the Cordele Circuit of the Superior
Court for Crisp, Dooley, Irwin and Wilcox counties, Judge Whipple became a Superior Court judge,
serving until January 1, 1912, when he returned to private practice. In 1913, he was elected president
of the Cordele Chamber of Commerce.

On April 9, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson NOMINATED BROTHER WHIPPLE TO BE THE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE for the Southern District of Georgia. Judge Whipple’s
nomination, however, was blocked by his fellow Georgian and U.S. Sen. Thomas W. Hardwick, whose
objection to the nomination was written on a “blue slip” of paper:

“I object to this appointment. The nomination is personally offensive and objectionable

... I cannot consent to the confirmation of the nominee.”

According to the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, use of a “blue slip”
to block the nomination of a judicial appointee from a Senator’s home state originated with
Whipple’s appointment.

It appears that Hardwick took President Wilson’s appointment as personal insult because Wilson did not
nominate Hardwick’s preferred pick, John T. West of Thomson, Georgia. One newspaper summed up
Hardwick’s positions as “West or nobody.”

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, April 22, 1917, p. 3:

[Hardwick] said the nomination [was] in flagrant disregard of his wishes ... [but] that he
recognized [Whipple’s] personal and professional probity ... His chief objection was that
his wishes had been ignored in the matter ...

Mr. West married Miss Laura F. Hawes, sister of Kappa Deuteron Brother William Mosely
Hawes.

Prior to Wilson’s appointment of Judge Whipple, the President had appointed Judge Frank Park to the
judgeship, which appointment Hardwick also opposed, and he was angry that the Wilson administration
had not consulted him on this choice as well. Wilson’s third choice, after Whipple, was also not
confirmed, Valdosta judge William E. Thomas, who again was vigorously opposed by Sen. Hardwick.

Sen. Hardwick was defeated the next year in his bid for re-nomination to the U. S. Senate in the
Democratic primary in 1918.

For a long number of years thereafter, Judge Whipple acted as referee in federal bankruptcy court
serving a number of counties in the Middle District of Georgia. On June 18, 1927, Judge Whipple was
appointed as a member of the Georgia prison commission by Gov. Clifford Mitchell Walker (UGA 1897

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and member of the ... fraternity; Gov. Walker was elected governor by aligning himself with the Ku
Klux Klan to defeat former U.S. Sen. Hardwick [see above.]

Whipple was a deacon in the Missionary Baptist Church, a Mason and a District Deputy of the Third
District Grand Lodge, Knights Templar.

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The Cordele Dispatch, Cordele, Georgia, Tuesday, June 8, 1948, p. 2 on his death:

One of the tallest tress in the forest [Whipple] has fallen and the city, county and state
have sustained a great loss.

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MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1888

John Robert Evans

Date of Birth: December 9, 1867, Wilkes County, Georgia.

Date of Death: June 29, 1913, Rayle, Wilkes County, Georgia, of pneumonia, 45 years of age.
Burial: Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery, Rayle, Wilkes County, Georgia, not far from the grave of his
fraternity brother, Robert Augustus Cason.

Education: Brother Evans enrolled at The University of Georgia in 1886.

He was initiated into the confidences of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of
Phi Gamma Delta between in early 1886, between January and April.
Brother Evans graduated from The University of Georgia in 1888.

According to his obituary in The Washington Reporter, Washington,

Georgia, Thursday, July 3, 1913, p. 1: Evans “ ... had, for a number of
years, taught school in west Wilkes following his graduation from the
state university.” He was an educator for 12 years. For a number of
years, he was also engaging in farming near Rayle, Georgia.

In 1910, Evans was a candidate for Wilkes County school commissioner.

Baptist.

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Asa Wesley Griggs, Jr.

Date of Birth: October 20, 1867. [Most sources, including census records, suggest he was born at
Bluffton (now Lanett) in Chambers County, Alabama. Other sources, including his Texas Certificate of
Death certificate, state that he was born at West Point, Troup County, Georgia - jtf].
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Date of Death: October 12, 1938, West Columbia, Brazoria County, Texas, eight days shy of his 71st
birthday, of coronary thrombosis.
Burial: Old Columbia Cemetery, West Columbia, Brazoria County, Texas.

Education: Brother Griggs entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1884 as a sophomore. That
school year, he was chosen to represent his class as a speaker during the 1885 spring graduation
exercises.

Griggs studied medicine under the supervision of his father at West Point, Georgia in 1886 and then
returned to Athens in the fall of 1887. Brother Griggs was a member of the Demosthenian Society, the
Ollie Gopher Clan in 1888 and of the Philosophic Society. From
November 1887 into early 1888, he was the business manager and a
member of the Board of Editors of The Pandora yearbook for the
annual’s second edition.

Asa Wesley Griggs, Jr. affiliated himself with the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and was initiated in January 1885. In
1886, he was the corresponding editor to The Phi Gamma Delta
Quarterly for Kappa Deuteron Chapter. Griggs graduated from The
University of Georgia in 1888 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After
graduation from Georgia, he enrolled in the National Normal
University, a teacher’s college at Lebanon, Ohio.

Brother Griggs was a son of Dr. Asa Wesley Griggs, a native of

Putnam County, Georgia, an 1849 graduate of The University of
Georgia and, as his son would later become, a Demosthenian. Dr.
Griggs was also an 1855 graduate of the medical department of the
University of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, which later became a part of Vanderbilt University.
Griggs, Sr. was a physician and surgeon and served in the Confederate States Army. He was
born December 11, 1827 in Putnam County, Georgia and died August 16, 1900, West Point,
Troup County, Georgia. A very small collection of Dr. Griggs’
The Bastrop Advertiser, Bastrop, letters can be found in the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta
Texas, Saturday, May 16, 1896, p. History Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
7:
Career: After graduation from The University of Georgia and the
“As a scholar [GRIGGS] is first normal school in Lebanon, Ohio, about 1889, Brother Griggs
class, being a graduate of the moved to Texas where he was the superintendent of education in
University of Georgia. As a Giddings, Lee County, Texas, about 50 miles east of Austin, Texas.
teacher, he has no superior and
few equals.” Thereafter, he was an administrator and teacher for schools in
Bastrop, El Paso, Kaufman, Van Zandt and Wharton counties in
Texas. In 1924, he began what would be his final assignment for West Columbia schools in Brazoria
County, Texas. For his service, Griggs Field at Columbia High School was named in honor of this
Kappa Deuteron Brother.

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While teaching in Van Zandt County, Griggs shot a man in an argument over school matters. Details
uncovered are few, but it would appear that Griggs was not charged or charges were dismissed later.

The St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday,

May 13, 1900, p. B-1:
Brother Griggs was a prominent
WOUNDED BY A TEACHER. educator and public school
administrator in Texas for almost 40
Wills Point, Tex., May 12 - John Long, a farmer, years.
was shot and mortally wounded by Asa W.
Griggs, a school teacher, at Myrtle Springs to-
day.

In another account, published in The Times-Democrat newspaper of New Orleans, it was stated that:
“The men quarreled over a school matter. Prof. Griggs surrendered to the peace officers.”



“History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration of
Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1276 of the original
typed manuscript:

“ASA WESLEY GRIGGS as a student was a good mixer, his personality attractive. He
took much interest in different student activities and maintained good standing in his
classes. He became a teacher and devoted all the years of his life to that profession. His
teaching was done in Texas ... ”

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William Mosely Hawes

Date of Birth: August 2, 1867, in that part of Columbia County, Georgia, which, in 1870, was
combined with parts of Warren County to form McDuffie County?
Date of Death: May 21, 1921, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, at the age of 53.
Burial: Westview Cemetery, Thomson, McDuffie County, Georgia.

Education: Brother Hawes was a Demosthenian while a student at The University of Georgia. He also
played baseball for the University’s freshmen team. He joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta and was initiated between January and April of 1886 and was chapter secretary in 1886.

In 1887, as a junior, Hawes was the recipient of the “Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship,” which
was established in 1881 by former Georgia Gov. John E. Brown in the memory of his son - a member of
the Class of 1878 who died while a student at Georgia. Gov. Brown initiated the scholarship to assist a

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student or students who was “of some financial need,” and who is “bright, of good moral character, apt
to learn, in reasonable health and ambitious, to prepare themselves for usefulness.” Hawes graduated
from The University of Georgia in 1888 with a Bachelors of Art degree.

“History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration of
Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1277 of the original
typed manuscript:

WILLIAM HAWES, of Warrenton, Ga., was a young

man of most commanding physical appearance,
handsome and popular. He was a member of the
Demosthenian Society and the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity. For a number of years, he was a well-known
figure in the field of Georgia journalism and also served
as a member of the Georgia legislature.

Brother Hawes was a son of Dr. Ellington Cody Hawes,

Sr., a graduate in medicine of the University of
Pennsylvania, a Baptist, Democrat and Mason. Dr. Hawes represented McDuffie County
in the Georgia Legislature in 1884 and 1885. He was a son of Peyton Hawes. The
Ellington Cody Hawes Medical Scholarship at the University of South Carolina for
students from Georgia at the USC School of Medicine is named for him. Brother Hawes
nephew was Richard Ellington Hawes, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, for whom in 1984, the
guided missile frigate U.S.S. Hawes was named.

There are familial, marital and genealogical ties to the Hawes family with Pope and Tate families
of Brothers Frederick B. and Nathanial H. Pope and of Ora Eugene Tate as well as the Cody and
Goree families, related to Brothers Emmett Cody and Churchill Pomeroy Goree.

Career: Brother Hawes was an attorney, journalist and associated with real estate and insurance
enterprises. He was the editor and publisher of The Warrenton Clipper newspaper of Warren County,
Georgia, beginning about 1894. In 1905, he sold the Clipper, according to The Augusta Chronicle,
Augusta, Georgia, Monday, July 24, 1905, p. 4:

THE WARREN COUNTY REPORTER: After eleven years pencil-pushing, during

which time he never solicited or published a whiskey advertisement, our genial friend,
Col. W. M. Hawes, has disposed of his dear old friend, The Warrenton Clipper, lock,
stock and barrel, to Mr. J. L. Dowling, of Abbeville, Ga.

The Clipper, under Hawes’ ownership, was called by The Atlanta Constitution of May 17, 1894 “one of
the best weekly papers in Georgia.”

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In 1895, attorney Hawes represented future U.S. presidential nominee and future U.S. Sen. Thomas E.
Watson in litigation challenging the results of Watson’s unsuccessful campaign for election to the 10th
Congressional District of Georgia against incumbent U.S. Rep. James Conquest Cross Black, wherein
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Watson alleged voter fraud and intimidation of black voters.

Hawes was elected to represent Warren County in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1896, but
chose not to seek re-election at the conclusion of his term. Among the bills he introduced while serving
in the Georgia General Assembly was legislation to require all jails be provided with heaters for
prisoners during winter months.

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As an attorney in private practice, William Mosely Hawes argued before the Georgia Supreme Court
and was an unsuccessful candidate for solicitor-general of the newly formed Toombs Circuit (Glascock,
Lincoln, Taliaferro Warren, and Wilkes counties) in 1912.

By 1917, Hawes and his wife were living in Tampa, Florida, where he was in the real estate and
insurance business. Hawes was living in Chicago, Illinois by about 1920 (see the 1920 census of Cook
County, Illinois.) In this census, his occupation in this census is given as “solicitor insurance company.”
He and his wife were living on Clarendon Avenue, a few blocks west of Montrose Beach on Lake
Michigan and north of Wrigley Field. Brother Hawes died in 1921 in Birmingham, Alabama. It is not
clear whether he was visiting or living in that city at the time.

Some sources reference him as “Colonel” but the source of that military or honorific title is unknown;
even his marriage certificate of 1896 names him as “Col. Hawes.”

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William Augustus (Will) Kennon

Date of Birth: July 3, 1869, near Hoboken, Georgia, which today lies within the boundaries of Brantley
County, Georgia.
Date of Death: January 22, 1931, St. Louis, Missouri, age 63, of cancer of the larynx.
Burial: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri

Education: Brother Kennon entered The University of Georgia in 1883 as a freshman; he joined the
Demosthenian Society in 1883. In 1887, Kennon was vice president of the Engineering Society.

He was initiated into the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta at least by
1885. Kennon graduated from The University of Georgia in 1888 with a Bachelor’s in
Civil Engineering. His uncle, Benning Moore Kennon, Class of 1884, was also a
member of the Georgia chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.

From “History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration
of Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1281 of the original
typed manuscript:

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 “WILLIAM A. KENNON, of Waycross, Ga., was born in Georgia in 1868. He was one
of the quietest, most gentlemanly boys I ever knew. A year or two after graduation, he
was married to Miss Mattie Grady, sister of Henry W. Grady, who died when they lived
in Brunswick, Ga. I have never seen him since and there is no information in the office
of the Alumni Secretary concerning him. He has probably passed on ... While in college,
Kennon was a Demosthenian and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.”

Brother Kennon was a son of Mary Rachel

Crawford and Captain Henry Thomas Kennon
(one of 12 children of John William Kennon and
Sarah Cobb Moore.)

Brother Kennon married Martha (Mattie) Nicholson

THE TAYLOR-GRADY HOUSE
The Greek Revival home in Athens, Ga.
that was the childhood home of
Mattie (Grady) Kennon
and the site of her marriage to
Phi Gamma Delta’s William A. Kennon
Grady on June 25, 1891 at the bride’s home in Athens,
Clarke County, Georgia, his first marriage. She was a
sister of the famous Southern newspaper man Henry
Woodfin Grady. Mattie and Willie Kennon had been
married only 16 months when she died at their home
on October 21, 1892 at Brunswick, Glynn County,
Georgia.
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday,
October 20, 1892, p. 4: “Mrs. W. A. Kennon is lying at
the point of death at her home in Brunswick. There is
perhaps no woman in Georgia who is more universally
beloved than Mrs. Kennon ...” She was buried in the
Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia.

Will Kennon married second Margaret Amanda (Pearl) Marshall on May 23, 1894 at Waycross, Ware County,
Georgia, daughter of The Rev. John Metcalfe Marshall.

INTER-RELATED FAMILIES OF
KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER:

KENNONS AND OTHERS

The story of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma is one of brotherhood and FAMILY, with many
Brothers sharing near and proximate familial relations among COMMON ANCESTRAL LANDS. The
KENNON family, for example, produced numerous Brothers related by blood and marriage.

Every named member of the Kennon family included in this history of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter
descends from Col. William Kennon, who was born on October 9, 1713 in Henrico County, Virginia and
who died about 1759 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, according to “Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of
A Family,” by Merrow Egerton Sorley, 1935, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, p.
393 and other sources, and who was a substantial land owner in that part of Virginia.

As noted before, early Kappa Deuteron Brother Benning Moore Kennon was the uncle of Brother
William Augustus Kennon; the latter’s father - Henry Thomas Kennon - a biological brother of Benning

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Moore Kennon.

John William Kennon, the father of Benning Moore Kennon and Henry Thomas Kennon, married Sarah
Cobb Moore, who was a daughter of Thomas T. Moore, Jr. and Martha Susannah Benning. A sister of
Sarah Cobb (Moore) Kennon, Fannie Thweatt Moore, married John Ross Crane, and they were the
parents of Phi Gamma Delta’s William Moore Crane.

The mother of Martha Susannah Benning, Sarah Cobb, was married to John Benning. A sister of Martha
Susannah, Sarah Cobb Benning married Peter Lamar, related to the Lamar family that produced Kappa
Deuteron’s Lavoisier Ledran Lamar. A daughter of Peter Lamar and Sarah Cobb Benning, Sarah Benning
Lamar, married Porter Fleming (his second marriage,) business partner of Kappa Deuteron Brother
Frederick Ball Pope; Brother Barry Abbott Fleming, initiated into the third-iteration of Kappa Deuteron
in 1985, is related to this Fleming family; the compiler is not - jtf]

Another Kennon, Xenophon Kennon, married Nancy Warren Carr, who after his death, married Eli
Goree, the father of Kappa Deuteron’s Churchill Pomeroy Goree. Xenophon Kennon’s sister, Emma
Kennon, married into the Dearing family of Phi Gamma Delta brothers at The University of Georgia,
Alfred Long Dearing, Jr. and Llewellyn Spotswood Dearing.

Kappa Deuteron’s Henry Bradford Walker married Virginia Mamie Kennon, a granddaughter of William
Warner Kennon; she was a brother of Warner Lewis Kennon, grandfather of Benning Moore Kennon and
great-grandfather of William Augustus Kennon, both members of Phi Gamma Delta at The University of
Georgia. Benning Moore Kennon married Dollie Walker, who lived to 104 years and died at Telfair,
Georgia in 1971, possibly a descendant of Elisha Walker, Revolutionary War soldier, or one of his
brothers who settled in Georgia about 1770. And there are also ties between the Barnett and Redd
families as well (see Osborne Stone Barnett and William Anderson Redd.)

And there are numerous examples of the intersection of other families and the fraternity in the halls of
the Kappa Deuteron Chapter: Charles Edward Harman, one of the original “Five Founders” of the
chapter in 1871, and his grandson, Charles Edward Harman III, one of the 12 charter members of the
chapter when it was recolonized in 1968, for instance. Our Harman Brothers can claim kinship to Kappa
Deuteron’s Wade brothers, Peyton, Eugene, and Ingersoll.

Andrew Jackson Moye II, grandson of Andrew Jackson Moye who was the father of Kappa Deuteron
Brothers Robert Leiden Moye and Allen Pettit Moye, claims in his application to the Sons of the
American Revolution to be a descendant of Col. William Kennon, Jr., a son of Col. Kennon referenced
above, through his maternal grandmother, Laura Jane (West) Moye.

Still another Kappa Deuteron connection of pioneer Georgia families include the Crittendens and Reids
of Brother Zack Crittenden and his first cousin Hiram Crittenden and the family of Brothers Lon Reid
and Dennis Reid, his first cousin-once removed.

A
fter the death of his wife, Mattie (Grady) Kennon, Brother Kennon was
appointed postmaster for Berrien, Georgia on February 16, 1898. By 1900,
he was employed as a “lumber inspector” in Jacksonville, Florida. Around
1904, he was the chief engineer for the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway in
Brunswick, Georgia (which was chartered in 1887 as the Waycross Air Line Railroad)
when the A&B acquired the Brunswick & Birmingham. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri
before in the 1920s and became an engineer and roadmaster (or territorial supervisor) for
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 the Missouri Pacific Railroad at St. Louis, and in Kansas and Nebraska. A son, Henry
Marshall Kennon, was the bird curator at the St. Louis Zoo.

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Beloved Pace Kimbrough

Date of Birth: March 12, 1866, Greene County, Georgia.

Date of Death: April 10, 1937, Greene County, Georgia, age 71.
Burial: Kimbrough Family Cemetery, Greene County,
Georgia, off Veazy Road.

Education: Kimbrough entered The University of Georgia in

1884. He was initiated into the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of
Phi Gamma Delta in January of 1885. The Phi Gamma
Delta Quarterly, January 1886, p 57: “B. P. Kimbrough did
not return to College this year, having decided to go into
business for himself. He is now a co-partner in the firm of
W. Kimbrough & Co., wholesale and retail dry goods dealers
in Greensborough, Ga. He returned to school as a member of
The University of Georgia Class of 1888.

Called “Love” by his family and friends, he was the only son of
Augustus Longstreet Kimbrough. He shares his name with that of
an uncle.

Career: Kimbrough was a farmer, “planter” and dairyman

(made butter, ice cream, milk, etc.) and raised Hereford
cows. He was secretary of the Greene County Dairy
Association and, by 1913, vice president of the Greensboro
Fertilizer Company.
Courtesy of J. James Johnson,
The Herald-Journal, Greensboro, Georgia, Friday, April 16,
descendant of B. P. KIMBROUGH,
1937, p. 1:
who I met at the Kimbrough home
outside of Greensboro
“Like his father, [Beloved Pace Kimbrough] was one
several years ago - jtf
of the most successful planters in this section of the
state conducting his operations on an extensive scale.

He was a widely read man of diversified tastes, being a great reader of scientific works,
especially those pertaining to the science of agriculture ... he was always ready to support
financially and otherwise any undertaking that would advance the good of his state and
county.”

The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” April 1938, p. 548:

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 B. PACE KIMBROUGH
(Georgia ‘88)

Beloved Pace Kimbrough (Georgia ‘88) died on April 10, 1937, in Greene County, Ga., where
he was a planter. Brother Kimbrough was initiated into the now inactive Kappa Deuteron
Chapter at the University of Georgia in 1885.

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Dr. Howell Cobb Strickland

Date of Birth: May 29, 1860, Jackson County, Georgia.

Date of Death: February 26, 1937, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, age 76.
Burial: Gateway Methodist Church Cemetery (formerly Boggs Chapel) in northwest Clarke County,
Georgia.

Education: Strickland entered The University of Georgia as a freshman in 1884. Soon thereafter, he
joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Brother Strickland was a member of The University of Georgia
Class of 1888 but left school in 1887 to get an early start on his medical education at the Atlanta
Medical College, an antecedent of Emory University School of Medicine, and he graduated from that
institution on March 6, 1890.

It appears he may have, subsequently, taken additional courses at the Medical College of Georgia
(MCG) in Augusta. According to The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, October 1891, p. 308:

“H. C. Strickland, ’87, graduated from the state Medical College at Augusta, with high
honor. He will practice his profession at his old home in Gainesville, Ga.”

Brother Strickland was a son of Carlos Augustus Strickland, Jr., whose father was a native of Edgecombe County,
North Carolina. He is also a descendant of Jacob Strickland, Jr., a Revolutionary War soldier, and Matthew
Strickland of Westmoreland, England who was born around 1625 and who immigrated to America and lived in
Isle of Wight, Virginia before 1663.

Career: For close to 50 years, Kappa Deuteron’s Strickland was a distinguished family physician who
practiced in Banks, Clarke, Jackson and Madison counties, Georgia. Dr. Strickland was also a deacon in
the Baptist church for 35 years.

From his obituary in The Athens Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, Friday, February 26, 1937,
p. 1:

He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity ... A member of the Masons, Dr.
Strickland was a man of outstanding Christian character and numbered his friends by his
acquaintances.

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Eugene Washburn Wade

Date of Birth: November 1, 1867, Screven County, Georgia.

Date of Death: June 7, 1932, San Diego, California, age 64.
Burial: ?

Education: Eugene Washburn Wade entered The University of Georgia in 1884 as a member of the
Class of 1888. Wade was a member of the Phi Kappa literary
society and treasurer of his junior class at The University of
Georgia, elected on October 15, 1886. In October 1884, just 17
years old, Wade was initiated as a member of the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at Georgia.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, July 1886, pp. 209-10:

BROTHER E. W. WADE has been chosen by the faculty

as sophomore orator for commencement,” placing second.
“Despite being the audiences’ clear choice as [the] winner,
the judges’ awarded him second place.” (Reed, p. 1223.)

Career: According to
Wade had two brothers who were The Phi Gamma Delta
Quarterly, October
also Brothers in the Phi Gamma Delta
1891, p. 308:
chapter in Athens, Georgia: Peyton
Lisby Wade and Edward Ingersoll “E. W. WADE,
Wade. ’88, is in the
drug business in
Atlanta.”

By 1910, according to that year’s U.S. census, Wade was in Galveston, Texas, confirmed also by the
“List of Membership by Chapters” edited by Cecil J. Wilkinson (Ohio Wesleyan 1917), The Phi Gamma
Delta magazine, October 1925, p. 99. He lived in Galveston at least until 1927, and at one point, he was
the bookkeeper for Haden’s Bay Towing Company, today the fourth largest harbor tug fleet in the
United States. On April 4, 1924, Brother Wade was elected as Galveston County Commissioner and
served until the fall of 1927. In 1925, he was elected to the Galveston city school’s Board of Trustees.

By 1930, according to the federal census, Wade was living in Paris, Lamar County, Texas, working for
the Imperial Bus Company.

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The Evening Tribune, San Diego, California, Wednesday, June 8, 1932, p. 2:

EUGENE W. WADE DIES AFTER STROKE

Eugene Washburn Wade, 63, for three years manager of the local Pickwick Stages

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 company [which was merged into what is Greyhound Lines - jtf] died suddenly
yesterday. He suffered a stroke a month ago, which rendered him partially paralyzed,
according to members of the family.

Funeral services for Wade will be held at 3 p.m. today. Jessie Wade [née Jessie Lee
Burbank - jtf.], the widow, survives. Wade died in the family home at 4335 Trias street.

He was a member and First Reader of the Christian Science church in Galveston.

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MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1889

Zacharias Albert (Zack) Crittenden

Date of Birth: February 18, 1868, Ozark, Dale County, Alabama.

Date of Death: July 21, 1892, Shellman, Randolph County, Georgia, age 24.
Burial: Rehoboth Cemetery, Shellman, Randolph County, Georgia.

Education: Zack Crittenden entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1886, as a sophomore and
member of the Class of 1889,
apparently leaving school in 1887
because of ill health. THE FAMILY AND FRATERNAL TIES OF THE
CRITTENDEN AND REID FAMILIES OF GEORGIA
Soon after his matriculation,
Crittenden joined Phi Kappa Society Among the children of Dr. Alexander Reid of Putnam County,
and was initiated into The Fraternity Georgia were three sons: (i) Edmund Reid (1802-1883), (ii)
of Phi Gamma Delta. He was Alexander Reid (1803-1871) and (iii) James Lewis Reid (1813-1886).
initiated with three others: Glen
Waters, Warren H. Williams and (i) EDMUND was the father of John Samuel Reid and grandfather of
Dennis Reid [Reid and Crittenden Kappa Deuteron Brother William Dennis Reid.
were both descendants of Dr.
Alexander Reid of Putnam County, (ii) ALEXANDER married Frances Terrell Butler and was the father
Georgia.] of Frances Massey Reid, who married Robert Flournoy Crittenden,
who was the father of Phi Gamma Delta’s Zacharias Albert
Crittenden played left field for the Crittenden. Alexander Reid was also the father of Isabel Indiana
“Sophomore Nine” baseball team in Reid, who married Brother Hiram Oscar Crittenden, and
1887.
(iii) JAMES LEWIS REID was the father of Kappa Deuteron ancient
Brother Crittenden was a son of Col. Samuel Alonzo Reid.
Robert Flournoy Crittenden and
Frances Massey Reid. Zack Crittenden
was a first cousin of another early
Kappa Deuteron Brother, Hiram Oscar Crittenden: their common ancestor was their grandfather, Cincinnatus
Decatur Crittenden. Biological brothers of Zack Crittenden, Oscar Alexander Crittenden and Robert Flournoy
Crittenden, Jr., were members of Phi Delta Theta at The University of Georgia, after the Kappa Deuteron

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Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta had, in a shroud of mystery, vanished from campus.

Career: Zack Crittenden was a member of the general merchandise firm of Crittenden Brothers in
Randolph County, Georgia. Later, he moved to Dawson, Georgia, and became a partner in the dry good
mercantile firm of Arthur, Crittenden & Whitehead.

An obituary describes him as having a: “ ... quiet and unassuming disposition carried within it a heart
large enough to win for himself the love and esteem of all who knew him ... modest to a great degree.”

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The Albany Weekly Herald, Albany, Georgia, Saturday, July 30, 1892, p. 4:

A SAD DEATH.

The Herald is pained to have to chronicle the death of Mr. Zack A. Crittenden, who
died at the home of his father, Col. R. F. Crittenden, at Shellman Friday.

Mr. Crittenden was a young man of more than ordinary business capacity, and, although
yet quite young, was a member of the firm Arthur, Crittenden & Whitehead of Dawson.

He was the worthy son of a noble sire, and the writer chronicles his untimely death with
that peculiar and inexpressible empathy that attaches to a sincere friendship ...

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William Benjamin Dixon, Jr. (sometimes spelled Dixson)

Date of Birth: about May 1867 at Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia, although the 1930 census of Lee
County, Alabama suggests he was born about 1872. While there are instances of the last name of the
father being spelled as Dixson, in letters to him from Georgia Gov. John Brown, for example, the father
signs his own name as “Dixon.” In addition, a number of correspondences from the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta spell our Brother’s name as “Dixson.”
Date of Death: One source suggests that he died on June 12, 1945.
Burial: possibly Rosemere Cemetery, Opelika, Lee County, Alabama? If so, this is also the final resting
place of Kappa Deuteron Brother Benjamin Franklin Coleman, Jr.

Education: Brother Dixon entered The University of Georgia in 1886. As a freshman, he was the
pitcher for the baseball team. On October 20, 1886, he was elected treasurer of his class. The 1886
Pandora gives his hometown as “La Fayette, Alabama” and the 1887 Pandora as “Fayette, Alabama.”
Dixon also joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta in late fall or early winter of 1886.
He was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1889 and elected as a student member of the
school’s athletic association.

It appears that Brother Dixon never married. He is believed to be a child of William Benjamin Dixon, Sr. and Ann
Eliza Thurston of Cuthbert, Georgia.

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Career: After college, he was a merchant in Cuthbert, Georgia and later in Lee County, Alabama and by
1906, he was living in Chambers County, Alabama, across the Chattahoochee River from LaGrange and
Troup County, Georgia. By 1930, Brother Dixon was living in the home of his sister Lena Ada (Dixon)
Andrews and her husband William Alfred Andrews in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama. According to
“The Catalogue of Membership,” edited by Cecil J. Wilkinson, The Phi Gamma Delta magazine,
December 1940, pp. 462-3, he was last living in Opelika, Alabama.

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Robert Edmund Lee McNeer

Date of Birth: December 22, 1866, Monroe County, West Virginia.

Date of Death: May 12, 1900, Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia, age 33, of “brain
fever,” possibly encephalitis, meningitis or scarlet fever.
Burial: Greenville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia.

Education: In 1884, Brother McNeer enrolled as a first-year student at Washington & Lee University,
Lexington, Virginia. There was a chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at W&L, established there in 1868, but it
was not functioning at the time Brother McNeer was a student there. McNeer soon enrolled at The
University of Georgia, where he pledged himself to the Phi Gamma Delta chapter. He joined and later
became president of the Demosthenian Society. On September 21, 1888, he was elected secretary of his
class, according to The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Saturday, September 22, 1888, p. 1:

STUDENTS IN ATHENS.

The Law and Junior Class Elections.

ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 21 - The law and junior classes held meetings to-day for the
purpose of electing officers. In the law class, Donald Harper of Rome was elected
president; L. L. Knight, Atlanta, vice president; Robert McNeer, West Virginia,
secretary, and W. W. Anderson, West Virginia, treasurer ...

In 1888 - four years before the University organized its first varsity football team - McNeer was a player
for the “intramural” or club team, according to The University Reporter newspaper of December 1888:

FOOT-BALL

While this game is played to some extent here, it is one in which comparatively little interest is
felt. As yet no eleven has been chosen for this season, and it seems as if another collegiate year
is to pass without having a real team.

Among the best players in college may be mentioned, Smith, Broyles, Cooper, Harper, Lamb,
Plyer, McNeer, Childers, Mell, Williford, Black, Willcoxon and Ross.

McNeer graduated on June 18, 1889 with a Bachelor’s of Law degree from The University of Georgia.

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According to “The Uncompleted Catalogue of Phi Gamma Delta,” edited by Frank Keck (CCNY 1872,
Columbia 1875), privately printed by The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, c. 1900, pp. 266-73, McNeer
also received a Bachelor’s of Science degree from National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, which
doors closed in 1917 and which school his fellow Brother Asa Wesley Griggs, Jr. also attended.

According to “A History of Monroe County, West Virginia,” by Oren Frederic Morton, published 1916, Ruebush-
Elkins Company, Dayton, Virginia, p. 380, James McNeer [grandfather of Brother McNeer] [and] father Richard
Tucker McNeer, came to Greenville, Virginia [now West Virginia] before 1785, possibly from Rockingham
County, Virginia.

McNEER

James [McNeer] came either from Rockingham [County, Virginia] or the southside of the
Potomac [River] near Washington [D. C.] His settlement was in the vicinity of Greenville [before
1785.] [Richard Tucker McNeer was a son of James McNeer.]

Career: Brother McNeer practiced law in Monroe and Union counties, West Virginia. In June of 1898,
McNeer joined 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company G during Spanish-American War. A few months
before his death, he had been appointed postmaster for Salt Sulphur Springs, Virginia on February 27,
1900.

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Ora Eugene Tate

Date of Birth: October 16, 1867, Elbert County, Georgia.

Date of Death: March 28, 1940, Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia, 72 years old.
Burial: Elmhurst Cemetery, Elberton, Georgia.

Education: Brother Tate enrolled in The

University of Georgia, where he became a
member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta, initiated in October 1885.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January

1886, p. 57:

Ora E. Tate, who severed his

connection with us on account of
sickness, did not return to college this
year. He is now partner with his father,
Col. E. B. Tate, in the hardware business in Elberton, Ga.

Tate was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1889, according to The Catalogue of the
Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of Georgia, At Athens, Georgia, from 1785
to 1906, E.D. Stone Press, 1906, p. 148.

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On April 4, 1923, Brother Tate deeded about two acres of land to the Service Star Legion of Elbert
County. The deed stipulated that the parcel of land must be perpetually used and maintained as a
“memorial" park. The further consideration of his donation was the desire to honor the memory of his
son, Lt. Edmund Brewer Tate III - a Sigma Nu at Georgia long after his father’s fraternity had ceased, a
varsity football letterman and one of the early members of the Gridiron Club - who died in the Battle of
Argonne Forest during World War I. The memorial was also to commemorate the military service of
two other sons, Jean Hudson Tate and Ora Eugene Tate, Jr. who also served in the First World War,
“together with all their comrades from Elbert County.” Brother Tate had at least 13 children.

A magnolia tree planted honoring U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is also a feature of the memorial. On
April 18, 1984, the park was donated and deeded to Elbert Country, Georgia and renamed “Elbert
County Memorial Park.”

Brother Tate was a corn and cotton grower and president of the Elbert County Cotton Growers
Association. He holds a U.S. patent for a telescoping smoking device for loose tobacco, cigarettes and
cigars, Patent #: 1,662,762, filed February 18, 1928.

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The Elberton Star, Elberton, Georgia, Friday, March 29, 1940, p. 1:

ORA TATE DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Following Illness of Few Weeks - Funeral This

Morning from Elberton First Methodist Church

O
RA E. TATE, 72 years, member of a pioneer Elbert county family,
prominent in the business, agricultural, civic, social and public life of
the community for several generations, died at the Elbert County
Hospital Wednesday night following an illness of several weeks.

Mr. Tate, for many years engaged in the mercantile business of

Elberton, devoted the greater part of his life and most of his energies to agricultural
pursuits. He carefully studied the problems of the modern farmer, especially the problem
of marketing the products of the farm to the best advantage for the producer and without
injustice to the consuming public or to the community as a whole. Several years ago, he
was prime mover in organizing a cotton marketing association ... which served for many
years the farmers of the cotton growing states.

He was the son of the late E. B. Tate, a brave old Confederate soldier and one of the most
successful business men of the community.

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Edgar (Word) Watkins

Watkins took special note, in 1901, to notify The University of Georgia that “I now never use the middle initial” [and
presumably his middle name, which at his birth was “Word.” His mother’s maiden name was Word, née Divine Howard Word.]

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Date of Birth: July 31, 1868 in the Pumpkin Town Road area of what is now Douglas County, Georgia,
but which then was within the boundaries of the now extinct Campbell County and which may have at
one time also been a part of Carroll County. In 1932, the remaining parts of Campbell County - due to
financial hardship arising from the Great Depression - were merged into Fulton County.
Date of Death: August 22, 1945, at his home at 3511 Piedmont Road, north Buckhead, Atlanta, Fulton
County, Georgia, approximately where Piedmont Center is now located, between Lenox Road and
Roswell Road, age 77.
Burial: West View Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.

Education: After graduation from

Whitesburg Academy in Carroll County,
Georgia, Watkins enrolled at The University
of Georgia on January 1, 1889. There, he
became a member of Phi Kappa literary
society, was one of Phi Kappa’s three
debaters at graduation exercises in 1899 and
was president of the Society. “Watkins was
highly complimented for the speech he made.
The Phi Kappas won, which to a great extent,
was owed to the speech of our Brother,”
according to The Phi Gamma Delta
Quarterly, September 1889, p. 252.

Edgar Watkins was initiated into the Kappa

Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. After
just six months as a student at The University
of Georgia, Watkins was graduated on June
18, 1889 with a Bachelor’s of Law diploma
but was always a devoted supporter of his

WATKINS WROTE OF HIS TIME

IN FRONTIER OKLAHOMA
“In the Democratic Convention,
when candidates were
nominated,
I presided as chairman.
My gavel was a .45 Colt revolver,
and while there were fights on
the convention floor, the
chairman was not attacked.”
college fraternity. Later in his career, he was awarded a Doctor
of Laws degree by Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio in
1922.
Brother Watkins was a speaker at the installation of Phi Gamma
Delta’s Gamma Tau chapter at the Georgia Institute of Technology
(Georgia Tech) on October 16, 1926, which ceremonies were
conducted at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, according to The
History of Gamma Tau, 1921-1979, by Mike Hassell, p. 22. “One of
the comparatively few living members of the extinct Georgia chapter,
Edgar Watkins, then addressed the group, passing the torch of Phi
Gamma Delta from Kappa Deuteron to Gamma Tau.”

Career: On June 19, 1889, Brother Watkins was admitted to the Georgia Bar Association at
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Carrollton, Georgia, where he began a long and distinguished career in law, which included more
than 35 appearances before the United States Supreme Court. By 1892, Watkins became
solicitor of the Carrollton City Court,

In September of 1893, Watkins accepted an appointment as Land Commissioner for the Oklahoma
Territory, offered by fellow Georgian and then Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith [later Governor and
U.S. Senator from Georgia - jtf.]

As Land Commissioner, Watkins’ job was to settle disputes arising from the famous Oklahoma Land
Rush, often claims against “Sooners” who were accused of cheating by laying claim to lands before the
official opening to settlement. The Oklahoma Territory later would become the 46th State in the Union
on November 16, 1907. While in Oklahoma, Brother Watkins also practiced law, was a jurist and
helped organized the Perry Building and Loan on November 21, 1893 at Perry, Oklahoma, just a month
after the town’s
incorporation. Perry is
located north of
Oklahoma City and west
of Tulsa.

At least by August 1895,

Watkins had moved to
Galveston, Texas, where
he was an attorney in
private practice. Later,
after moving to Houston,
Texas, Watkins was
elected as a member of
the City Council, first in
1900, alderman for the
Third Ward, and also
served as Mayor Pro
Tempore. Brother
Watkins was elected
president of the Board of
Trustees of the Houston
city schools, 1902-1905.
Advertisement, The Atlanta Constitution, September 7, 1918, p. 7 He also became
President of the Houston
Business League, a
member of the Houston Bar Association, a leader in the Young Men’s Christian Association of Houston
and an active Presbyterian Houstonian. Watkins also became a director and vice president of the
Planters and National Bank of Houston.

Watkins later became a partner in law firm of Hogg, Watkins & Jones with former Texas Gov. James
Stephen Hogg (Texas Governor from 1891-1895.) [Yes! Gov. Hogg had a daughter Ima Hogg! who
was, in fact, an attractive young lady who never cared much for her name - jtf] One of Watkins’
children, James Hogg Watkins, was named for his father’s respect for “Big Jim” Hogg.

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In 1907, Edgar Watkins and his family returned to Georgia, where Brother Watkins continued his legal
practice. In 1909, Brother Watkins entered into a sole practice and authored the book “Watkins on
Shippers and Carriers of Interstate Freight,” published by T. H. Flood & Co., Chicago, considered as
the “authoritative and comprehensive submission of the subject.”

In 1913, Watkins was one of 100 men who put up $1,000 each to re-establish Oglethorpe University on
Peachtree Road in Atlanta.

In Atlanta, he also became president of the city’s Bar Association. Between 1914 and 1917, Watkins
was an attorney for the federal Interstate Commerce Commission.

Politics and government close to his heart, in 1918, Watkins was a candidate for Congress for the Fifth
Congressional District of Georgia (all or parts of
Campbell, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and Rockdale
counties,) opposed to the growing calls during
World War I for federal ownership of railroads, in
part, because - according to Watkins’ ad in The
Atlanta Constitution newspaper on September 4,
1918, p. 14: “Federal ownership means whites and
Negroes riding in the same cars.” Watkins
finished second in a seven-man race against
incumbent William David Upshaw, who had been a
leader in Georgia’s adoption of Prohibition -
Georgia becoming being the first “dry” state in the
Union in 1908. In 1922, Upshaw, considered the
“driest dry” in Congress, became the Prohibitionist
Party’s nominee for U.S. President.

On September 1, 1921, Edgar Watkins was

certified as the Democratic nominee for the Atlanta
City Council, Eighth Ward. In a very close race - a
four-vote majority of the voters of the ward - Far left, Edgar Watkins adjusting the
Watkins was elected to the City Council 843-839! academic vestments of William Randolph Hearst
(kneeling) when Hearst was awarded an
See his biography in “Men of America: A honorary degree by Oglethorpe University in 1927.
Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries,”
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia,
volume 1, edited by John William Leonard,
Lane Brothers Photographers Collection, 1920-1976.
published by L. R. Hamersly & Company, New
York City, 1908, p. 2114.

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WATKINS AND OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY

In 1919, Edgar Watkins became chairman of the Board of Trustees of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta,
Georgia, which school he helped organize in 1913, and in that position, he served until his death in
1945. Oglethorpe in Atlanta was a resurrection of the “Old Oglethorpe” at Milledgeville, Georgia,
which closed after the Civil War. The first member of Phi Gamma Delta in the state of Georgia, Dr.
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James Woodrow (Jefferson 1849,) was a professor at the original Oglethorpe University.

When University President Thornwell Jacobs resigned the office in 1943, Watkins served as president of
Oglethorpe until Philip Weltner was installed as President.

Watkins was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for more than 50 years. He was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Houston, Texas and taught Sunday school at First Presbyterian Church of
Atlanta from 1919 until his death. Drawing on his experience as a teacher in Sunday school of the
Presbyterian Church, he wrote his book, “The Ordinary Man’s Religion,” published by Oglethorpe
University Press in 1932.

Edgar Watkins was also a 32nd-degree Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite, a Shriner, a member of
the Benevolent Protection Order of Elks, a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce and the Atlanta Lawyers Club.

Half-a-cubic-foot of the Edgar Watkins Correspondence Papers, MS 28, may be found in the archives of
the Philip Weltner Library at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Warren Hafed Williams

Date of Birth: July 27, 1868, Hart County, Georgia.

Date of Death: October 23, 1943, Anderson County Hospital, Anderson, South Carolina, age 75.
Burial: Northview Cemetery, Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia, also the final resting place of Brother
Walter L. Hodges.

Education: Warren Williams was initiated into the mysteries of

Phi Gamma Delta by the Kappa Deuteron Chapter in the fall of
1886. Williams transferred to and, in 1889, graduated from
Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia.

Williams was a son of

Cumberland Hotel, Cumberland Island.
Warren Hafed Williams, Proprietor.
a Confederate soldier
of Welsh descent
who was captured at The Arlington Hotel,
Richmond, Virginia. Gainesville, Georgia,
During the American managed by Brother Williams
Revolution, Brother
Williams’ grandfather
was captured by the British in Savannah and held prisoner in
England for 18 months.

Career: Warren Williams was at one time the owner and editor of The Hartwell Sun newspaper,
Hartwell, Georgia. Until a few weeks before his death, Brother Williams was a regular contributor to
The Hartwell Sun newspaper, “What Went On in Hart 10 Years Ago.”
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Williams wrote of one of his Kappa Deuteron Brothers in 1894, “I was particularly pleased to see what
strides our Georgia boys are making in the journalistic fields of New York. I had the pleasure of
spending time in New York this summer with Glen Waters ... the star reporter of The Advertiser and ...
one of the best writers in town. He has won enviable
esteem of the head men on the paper by hard work and
clever writing.”

Williams also was engaged in the hotel business, being

connected with many leading hotels of Georgia and the
South, including The Arlington at Gainesville, Georgia,
The Southern Hotel at Waycross, Georgia, for which
establishment he became proprietor on October 1, 1896,
The Masury at Thomasville, opened on October 1, 1898,
at a time when Thomasville was a popular destination for
many wealthy, northern families such as the Firestones,
the Vanderbilts and the Goodrichs, for quail hunting and The Masury Hotel, Thomasville, Georgia,
the area’s warm weather and perceived health benefits, General Manager, Brother Warren Williams
and The Cumberland Hotel at Cumberland Island,
Georgia, which he opened on June 12, 1899.

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IN 1897, WILLIAMS WAS CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF CHARLES W. WILSON, who
was suspected of having insulted and propositioned Williams’ wife, Winona (Henley) Williams.
Williams was quickly found guilty of murder by a coroner’s jury but later was acquitted by a jury in
Ware County Superior Court
at Waycross. The account of
the killing and trial appeared
in newspapers across the
southeastern United States
and beyond. In reporting the
killing, The Waycross
Weekly Herald, Waycross,
Georgia, Saturday, January
2, 1896, p. 7 described
Williams as “a delicate
looking man, perhaps thirty
years old, and a perfect
gentleman in appearance and
is well-connected in North
The Southern Hotel, Waycross, Georgia, Georgia ...”
Brother Williams, proprietor. Scene of the shooting of a man by Williams
who was suspicioned of having an inappropriate relationship with his wife. “Mrs. Williams, who is said
to be a very pretty, young
woman, joined her husband
in Waycross a few weeks since, he having been here some months.”

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The newspaper account quoted a witness saying that Wilson fired the first shot at Williams. Five
months after the shooting, in the case the State vs. Warren H. Williams, the trial jury found Williams
“not guilty.”

During the trial, according to The Weekly Herald, Waycross: “... hundreds of letters of the most criminal
nature from Mrs. Williams to Wilson were in the hands of the prosecution, and also other evidence
which, had they introduced would have shown the woman to be one of the worst of her type - an
abandoned creature without virtue or the sense of moral obligation or care for the consequences of her
outrageous conduct.

With the face of beauty and form of matchless perfection, she was utterly devoid of character ... and yet
she was Warren Williams’ wife and never, in our opinion, was there a more devoted or worse deceived
husband.”

About a month after being found not guilty, Williams filed for divorce on July 31, 1897 in Ware
County, Georgia, which was granted by November of that year. It appears he later re-married and had a
daughter.

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The Hartwell Sun, Hartwell, Georgia, Friday, October 29, 1943, p. 1:

WARREN H. WILLIAMS, 75, BURIED SUNDAY IN CEMETERY HERE

... Following his education at Emory University, [Williams] engaged for quite a while in
newspaper work, being at one time editor of The Hartwell Sun. He later engaged in the
hotel business ... He also served for a time with the Southern Pacific and the Southern
railways as a dining car conductor.

One of the best read men in the community, Mr. Williams was always an interesting
conversationalist and was frequently sought by those desiring information on historical
and other subjects. Until a few weeks before his death, he was a regular contributor of
The Sun’s columns.

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MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1890

William Moore (Will) Crane

Date of Birth: the oldest of six sons, born April 10, 1870 in the old Ross Crane House (which is now
the chapter house for the Georgia Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity) in Athens, Clarke
County, Georgia. The Crane family sold the home, built by Brother Crane’s grandfather, in December
of 1870. In 1923, the structure served as a funeral home. In 1924, the house was deeded to the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Athens Lodge, before it was sold the SAE in 1929 for
$12,500.
Date of Death: October 14, 1938, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia
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Burial: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. [In addition to Brother Crane, six
other Brothers of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter are interred at Oconee Hill: Alfred Long Dearing, Jr., and
his brother Llewellyn Spotswood Dearing and Brothers Carlton, Reaves, Talmadge and Peyton Wade -
jtf.]

Education: Brother Crane entered The University of Georgia

in 1887. In November of 1887, he joined the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. In 1888, he was the right fielder
for the sophomore class baseball team. Crane was a member
of The University of Georgia Class of 1890.

His father was John Ross Crane (UGA 1862) who was with
General Lee at the surrender of the Confederacy at
Appomattox Court House. His mother was Frances
Thwewatt (Fannie) Moore, a daughter of Thomas Moore
and his third wife, Martha Hicks Jackson. Thomas Moore’s The Ross Crane House,
second wife was Susan Benning, and they had a daughter, birthplace of William M. Crane,
Sarah Cobb Moore, who married John William Kennon. which home was built by his
Thomas Moore’s son, Robert Hughes Moore, married Mary grandfather and which is now the
Ann Kennon, a daughter of Warner Lewis Kennon and a current home to SAE.
brother of John William Kennon, who was the father of
Kappa Deuteron Brother Benning Moore Kennon. Another son of Thomas Moore, Benning Betts
Moore, married Antonio Lamar, a
kinsman of Brother Lavoisier Ledran
Lamar. For more on the Kappa
Deuteron Chapter and the Kennon,
click here.

A son, William Moore Crane, Jr., was

ATHENS LANDMARKS BUILT BY ROSS CRANE,
grandfather of Brother William Moore Crane.
instrumental in the founding of The
University of Georgia Alumni Society and
was the UGA alumni society’s first full-
time alumni secretary in 1941. The
William Moore Crane Leadership
Scholarship, administered by The
University of Georgia Honors Program, is
named for him and was established in his
memory to recognize students who
demonstrate academic success and campus
leadership.

Top Row: (L) The Albin P. Dearing House, now home of
Kappa Alpha Theta and (R) First Presbyterian of Athens.
Bottom Row: (L) James S. Hamilton House, now home of
Alpha Delta Pi and (R) the iconic University Chapel erected
1832.
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Career: Brother Crane was a merchant,
coal executive and an insurance salesman
in Athens, Georgia.
From his obituary, The Athens Banner-
Herald, Athens, Georgia, Sunday, October
16, 1938, p. 1:
 He was a passenger on the first train to come into Athens over the Southern Railway
tracks and was the first passenger on the first street car to start operating here. The coal
industry in Athens is a vast business in this day, but it was Will Crane who realized that
the then infant industry had arrived to stay - and he became the first coal dealer in the
city ...”

In April of 1913, Mr. Crane suffered an accident in which his hip was broken and from
which he never fully recovered. But as evidence of his courage and determination, he
refused to give up in the face of such a physical handicap as might have broken the spirit
of one less strong. After nine long months of trying all methods to allow the bones to
knit, it seemed he was destined to the lot of a bed-ridden invalid. But his spirit again
triumphed and he insisted on getting up and learning to walk on crutches, which he
always used thereafter.

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Hiram Oscar (Oscar) Crittenden

Date of Birth: October 4, 1869, Ozark, Dale LAST KNOWN COMMUNICATION FROM
County, Alabama.
THE EARLY GEORGIA CHAPTER
Date of Death: May 2, 1945, Shellman, Randolph
County, Georgia, age 75.
Burial: Eastview Cemetery, Shellman, Georgia. WRITTEN BY OSCAR CRITTENDEN

As a senior at The University of Georgia, Oscar

Education: Oscar Crittenden entered The University
of Georgia in the fall of 1887 as a sophomore. He
became a member of Phi Kappa Society and the
organization’s president in 1889. He was elected
secretary of his junior class on September 21, 1888
and again in his senior year. Crittenden was one of
the members of the Board of Editors of The Pandora
in 1889. Crittenden also was an associate editor in
1889 of The University Reporter, a student-run
newspaper published by the literary societies.
The University Reporter, The University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia, Christmas 1889, p. 40:
Crittenden penned the last known
correspondence from the Kappa Deuteron of the
1800s, a cryptic and foreboding message to The
Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly in June of 1890:
“We are sorry to have to say that Kappa Deuteron
is now not enjoying that enthusiastic prosperity
which characterized Her in the first years of Her
re-establishment ...
This has been a year of many serious inter-
fraternity quarrels here ... Now all is quiet again,
but a secret hate still lingers and is liable to crop
out at any moment ...”

The election in the Demosthenian and Phi Wishing heartily for the success of all sister
Kappa societies for editors of The Reporter chapters, and hoping we can soon make a more
came off last Saturday and resulted in the favorable report for ourselves, the scribe bids
election of Messrs. W. K. Wheatley, Walker you adieu.”
King and T. C. Shackelford from the
Demosthenians and H. O. Crittenden, A. C. Newell and J. G. Cranford from the Phi
Kappa. They are good men and you may look for a spicy Reporter for the next term.

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Oscar Crittenden joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and graduated from The
University of Georgia on June 19, 1890 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. Crittenden later studied
at the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, a practical, business vocational school.

Brother Crittenden’s father was Hiram Albert Crittenden (who had a brother, Robert Flournoy
Crittenden, who was the father of Kappa Deuteron’s Zacharias Albert Crittenden.) Brother Crittenden’s
mother was Isabel Indiana (Anna) Reid; the parents married while the father was on furlough from the
Confederate Army in April 1864. Anna Reid was a sister of Frances Massey Reid, and these two
women were daughters of Alexander Reid and Frances Terrell Butler and kin to Kappa Deuteron
Brothers Samuel Alonzo Reid and William Dennis Reid.

Career: At least from 1893 until 1895, Crittenden was the editor of The Enterprise-Appeal newspaper
of Cuthbert, Georgia, which later became The Cuthbert Leader and Liberal-Enterprise. Crittenden was
succeeded by his fraternity Brother, Robert L. Moye, as the editor of The Liberal-Enterprise.

Crittenden was a member of the Georgia state Senate, according to History of The University of
Georgia, by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter X: The Administration of Chancellor William E. Boggs
Through the Session of 1893, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1575, and was mayor
of the city of Shellman by 1896. He was again mayor of Shellman by 1903, according to The Atlanta
Constitution.

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, January 25, 1896, p. 8:

The municipal affairs of our neighboring and thrifty little town of Shellman have fallen
into the hands of young America for the year 1896. The ticket elected for mayor and
councilman is composed of brainy, thrifty young fellows, who will make the municipal
affairs and interest of their town hustle. The confidence of their fellow citizens was
shown in their ability by electing them without opposition. The following ticket was
elected: Mayor, H. O. Crittenden ...

Crittenden also served as a member of the Shellman Board of Education beginning in 1904 and served,
too, on the Randolph County Board of Education. He was engaged in farming, banking and mercantile
businesses. He was a trustee for Andrew College in Cuthbert, Georgia, which institution was chartered
in 1854. Crittenden was manager of Crittenden Brothers merchants, which was founded by his father in
1872, and president of the Crittenden Warehouse. According to The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia,
Tuesday, December 22, 1903, p. 5:

The large department store of the Crittenden Bros., worth over a half-a-million dollars, is
one of the biggest concerns of southwest Georgia ... Oscar Crittenden, mayor of
Shellman, is manager ...

Crittenden was a director of the People’s Bank by 1903, which in 1906 became the First National Bank
of Shellman, of which he became president. He operated an insurance agency from 1895 until his death
in 1945. Oscar was also president of the Crittenden Warehouse Company and treasurer of the
Crittenden Guano Company.

Crittenden was the postmaster at Shellman during Woodrow Wilson’s administration, 1913-1921. In

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1914, he was the secretary of the Third Congressional District Democratic Executive Party and in 1920
a delegate to the Democratic State Convention.

The 1940 census of Shellman, Randolph County, Georgia gives Brother Crittenden’s occupation as a
“farmer.” Among his crops were hundreds of acres of peach trees. At The University of Georgia, his
degree was in philosophy - not agriculture - nonetheless, he was a tireless and enthusiastic supporter of
the College of Agriculture and served in the leadership of the college’s Farmer Institute.

Oscar Crittenden was a Democrat, treasurer of the Shellman Methodist Church, a Mason, and a member
of the Knight of Pythias.

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The Albany Herald, Albany, Georgia, Thursday, May 3, 1945, p. 2:

“A man of sterling character and high ideals ...”

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William Dennis (Dennis) Reid

Birth: February 24, 1870, Putnam County, Georgia.

Death: June 14, 1961, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, age 91.
Burial: Pine Grove Cemetery, Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia.

Education: Brother Reid entered The University of Georgia in 1886 as a sophomore. In the spring of
that year, he played right field for the “Sophomore Nine” baseball team and, in 1887, played first base
for the “junior team.” Reid was treasurer of his junior class in 1887. He was a member of the Phi
Kappa literary society and was voted secretary of that organization in 1888. William Dennis Reid
joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and was initiated in the fall of 1886.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, September 1889, p. 288: “W. D. Reid is recuperating
from a severe attack
of sickness at his
country home near
BROTHER DENNIS REID was the LAST LIVING MEMBER
Eatonton, Ga. We
of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter, passing just will welcome him
FIVE YEARS before THE RE-COLONIZATION of the chapter in 1966. back next fall and he
will graduate with
‘90.” According to
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, June 15, 1890, p. 17: “[Reid] was
originally of the class of ‘89, but lost one year of college and hence graduates with the
‘90.”

Reid graduated from The University of Georgia on June 19, 1890 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He
earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. He later also pursued

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post-graduate studies at Columbia University, New York City, New York.

B
rother Reid’s father, John Samuel Reid (1839-1924,) was a brother of James Lewis Reid, who was the
father of fellow Kappa Deuteron member Samuel Alonzo Reid, thus Brother Dennis Reid’s first cousin.
The Reids are of Scot-Irish descent. Family ties link the Reids and the Lamar family of Kappa
Deuteron Brother Lavoisier L. Lamar.

Brother Dennis Reid wrote a history of his family, which appeared in “The Genealogy of the Talbot, Wingfield
and Reid Families,” by Rosa Talbot Knight (self-published,) Atlanta, Georgia, 1926, p. 105, at the request of the
local Samuel Reid Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Alexander Reid settled in Rockingham County, North Carolina and died in Rowan County, North Carolina. He
was born about 1698. Samuel Reid, for whom the above-mentioned DAR chapter was named, was one of at
least five sons of Alexander. Samuel Reid was born in Rowan County, North Carolina about 1728, fought for
American independence in the Revolutionary War and died in Putnam County in 1810. His descendants include
Brother Dennis Reid and his cousin Brother Lon Reid.

Career: Reid was a life-long educator, as a teacher, administrator and superintendent for schools in
Alabama and Georgia. He was the superintendent of the Eatonton public schools until 1912.

The Eatonton Messenger, Eatonton, Georgia, Saturday, June 8, 1912, p. 4:

P
ROF. REID retires with the respect and esteem of all connected with the
school after the past three years as superintendent. Faithful and conscientious
in every matter respecting the school, a deep scholar with fine opportunities
educationally. Eatonton never had a more cultured Christian gentleman at the
head of the school and the best wishes of the entire community, his former
students and co-laborers will go with him throughout the remainder of life, whatever field
he enters …

According to “History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter X: The
Administration of Chancellor William E. Boggs, Through the Session of 1893, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1575 of the original typed manuscript:

William Dennis Reid, born in Georgia in 1870, was a teacher all his life, serving in a
number of high schools and at times as superintendent.” Brother Reid began writing a
detailed history of Putnam County, Georgia, “meticulously recorded these facts, and,
up to the time that he suffered serious impairment of sight, his was the most complete
research on the history of Putnam County. Unfortunately, because of this disability, his
notes were not set up in book form.

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Charles Allen (Jack) Talmadge

Birth: September 30, 1870, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.

Death: January 6, 1924, at his home on Prince Avenue, Athens, Georgia, age 53, of a heart attack.
Burial: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia.
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Education: Brother Talmadge entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1886; he also joined the
Phi Kappa literary society that year. He pledged himself to the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma
Delta and was initiated in the spring of 1887. Also in 1887, Jack was elected secretary of his class. He
played left field for the 1888 “sophomore” baseball team. Talmadge graduated from The University of
Georgia on June 19, 1890.

Career: Brother Jack Talmadge succeeded his father, Major John E. Talmadge, Sr., as senior member of
Talmadge Bros. and Company grocers on Prince Avenue in Athens, Georgia, which at the time was the
largest wholesale grocery business in Georgia. Major Talmadge “ran away from home” to join the
Confederate Army during the Civil War. Brother Talmadge was a deacon for the First Presbyterian
Church of Athens.

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The Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, Monday, January 7, 1924, p. 1:

Mr. Talmadge was one of the most beloved men of Athens and numbered his friends by
the hundreds throughout northeast Georgia ... In Athens all who knew him loved and liked
him. He possessed a happy disposition and the grace and ease of making people become
attached to him.

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Francis Lee (Frank) Threadcraft

Birth: March 19, 1871, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.

Death: November 10, 1923, Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia, age 52.
Burial: in the historic Cedar Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia.

Education: Threadcraft was a student of the public schools of Savannah, Georgia, graduating from the
local high school in 1886. He entered The University of Georgia in 1888 as a sophomore and was soon
elected secretary of his class and the next year as class treasurer. Also in 1888, Threadcraft was named
an associate editor of The University Reporter newspaper, the publication that was a collaboration of the
two literary societies.

Threadcraft was a member of the Phi Kappa Society and was elected first assistant to the president of the
society on February 25, 1888. He was also selected as a member of the 1889 Pandora staff, the
yearbook published by the school’s fraternities.

Threadcraft was a Brother in the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, probably joining in
1889. He was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1890.

It appears he left school before commencement exercises and was working for the Savannah, Florida &
Western Railroad as a clerk in 1889. The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, May 1889:

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 We were seriously crippled by the withdrawal of Bro. Threadcraft, of Savannah, at the
close of the last term. Bro. Threadcraft has since moved to Atlanta, where he is now
actively engaged in the railroad business. We predict for him a great success in life as he
is one to whom K.Δ. will always point with pride.

His father, Francis Marion Threadcraft, was a ship “pilot” and owner of the Riverside House, a
Savannah restaurant popular with many boat crews. After The Civil War, the father established a horse-
racing facility.

Career: Between 1890-1893, Brother Threadcraft worked in Atlanta for the Seaboard Rail and the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail. In 1893, he was in North Carolina working for the Seaboard.
Shortly after his marriage in 1898, he moved to Portsmouth, Virginia, the hometown of his wife, Sarah
Nash Hume, to work for the Seaboard.

The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, July 6, 1893, p. 4:

MR. FRANK THREADCRAFT, who for some time has been prominently connected in
the offices of the Seaboard Air-Line here in Atlanta, has received the rightful recognition
of his worth and merits by being promoted to a high place in the treasurer’s office in
North Carolina. There is not a more deserving young man in Atlanta than Frank
Threadcraft and his many friends here will rejoice to hear of his just promotion. He was
formerly a Savannah boy and took a high stand at the State university in Athens while
was there a few years ago.

By 1910, Threadcraft was working in Portsmouth as a broker for a merchandising firm. 1920, he was
working there as a clerk for the U.S. Ammunition Depot.

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Edward Ingersoll (Ingersoll) Wade

Birth: September 24, 1869, near Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia.

Death: September 29, 1958, Coral Gables, Dade County, Florida, age 89.
Burial: Woodlawn Park Cemetery, on S. W. 8th Street, Miami, Florida.

Education: Ingersoll
Wade enrolled at The Brother Wade’s obituary in The Athens Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia,
University of Georgia
Wednesday, October 1, 1958, p. 16 states:
at least by 1887, as a
sophomore. While at
Georgia, Wade joined He was secretary to Charles G. Dawes, vice president under [Phi Gamma
the Kappa Deuteron Delta Brother and President of the United States] Calvin Coolidge.
Chapter of Phi Gamma
Delta. He also joined
Phi Kappa and was later elected president of the literary society.
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 Wade may have been the chapter’s last initiate [or, perhaps, Brother Sidney Powell
Reaves] before the chapter disappeared abruptly in 1890, and Wade was the early
chapter’s last president.

“Inky,” as he was called by his Brothers, was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1890 but
left school prior to graduation ceremonies.

Ingersoll Wade was a biological brother of Peyton Lisby Wade and Eugene Washburn Wade,
both also members of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. [For more on the
Wade brothers’ ancestry, see Wade.]

His first wife, Mary Sprigg Belt Magruder, was a native of Prince George’s County, Maryland, and is
buried in the Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery in Prince George’s County, Maryland. They were
married in Washington, D. C. on June 19, 1894. Lamar Cobb, Jr., a Phi Delta at The University of
Georgia and a kinsman of the Phi Gam Cobb and Lamar families associated with Kappa Deuteron, was
his best man. Among those attending were Hoke Smith, five U.S. Congressmen, U.S. Sen. Walsh,
L.Q.C. Lamar and many other distinguished men and their families. Miss Magruder was left orphaned
early in her life when her father died in 1886; her mother had died four years prior. Her grandfather, C.
C. Magruder, was a member of the Maryland Court of Appeals. A daughter of this marriage, Ruth
Elizabeth Wade, married Adrian Hughes of Baltimore, Maryland, and later Henry Graham Martin.

Career: As early as 1899, Brother Wade began his career in journalism. As a student, he was the city
editor of one of the city’s largest newspapers, The Athens Banner - antecedent of The Southern Banner,
and, by the spring of that year, he had become editor of The Athens Evening Ledger, which was
established one year prior on March 23, 1890.

The Chi Phi Chakett of Chi Phi fraternity, October 1891, p. 46 stated:

A
recent number of the Athens, Ga. Evening Ledger, which is edited by a
member of Phi Gamma Delta [Brother E. I. Wade - jtf] contained the
following: There are eight fraternities represented by chapters in Athens.
They are the Chi Phi, Phi Delta Theta, S.A.E, A.T.O, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma
Nu, Kappa Alpha, and Chi Psi.

The Zeta Chi† also has a chapter here but the rites observed in initiation are so grotesque
and peculiar that there are but few additions to its membership rolls.

†- Zeta Chi was, perhaps, a local fraternity or a freshman society. The Pandora
yearbook of 1897 calls Zeta Chi “a bogus fraternity” and “a hazing club.” The
1901 Pandora yearbook also mentions Zeta Chi fraternity: “In [this edition] is
chronicled the first Zeta Chi initiation, which is ... “the bane of the freshmen's
existence.”

The fraternities have excellent club rooms, conspicuous among which are the club rooms
of the Chi Phi’s. The Sigma Alpha Epsilons have funds in hand with which to erect a
handsome club house. The Chi Phi fraternity is in a state of highest prosperity and they
will build an imposing club house, making disposition for club rooms, dancing hall and

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 other conveniences. There is a generous rivalry among the various fraternities this year
and timber is in high demand.

At The Ledger, Wade served under the direction of editor Richard B. Russell, later a member of The
University of Georgia Board of Trustees and future chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and
father of Georgia Governor and U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.

Wade also served as a correspondent for The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia. In the fall of 1891,
Wade moved to Americus, Georgia and became the city editor for The Americus Times-Recorder. By
1892, he had joined The Macon News, Macon, Georgia, where he became managing editor.

While he was working for The Macon News, he met U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Hoke Smith - who
later would become Governor and U.S. Senator in Georgia. That encounter led to Smith’s later
appointment of Wade to a position in the U. S. Department of the Interior, when Hoke served as the
Department’s Secretary in the spring of 1893.

According to The Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of
Georgia at Athens, Georgia, from 1785-1906, E. D. Stone Press, Athens, 1906, Brother Wade was living
in Washington, D.C., working for the U.S. Pension Office in Washington, D.C. He also worked for the
U.S. Census Office in D. C. In 1905, he and his wife divorced.

Soon thereafter, Ingersoll Wade was living in Louisiana, then St. Louis, Missouri and then San
Francisco, California; he was working as a stenographer, according to the 1910 federal census. Wade
worked as a stenographer for John Franklin Alexander Strong, governor of the Territory of Alaska from
1913-1918 before he moved to Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois where he was first employed by International
Harvester (farm equipment manufacturer) by 1918.

In Chicago, he was employed subsequently by the Armour & Company (meat packing and soap
manufacturer) as a copywriter and by 1920 the Glen Beck Agency of Chicago and the Chicago office of
advertising company Albert Frank & Co., established in 1872 by Alfred Frank in New York, one of first
financial advertising and publicity agencies in Wall Street. Ingersoll had relocated, again, to Los
Angeles at least by 1930 census, when he was living in the Cliffwood Apartments. In 1936, Wade
moved to Miami, Florida.

Brother Wade wrote lyrics to the song “Queen of the West,” copyrighted August 22, 1917; David
Adamson Dickle composed the music.

Wade’s son, Horace - by a second marriage to Harriet Johnson - became a national sensation around
1920 when, at the age of 11, he became the youngest published novelist in America with the release of
“In The Shadow of Great Peril.” The parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1955 at their
home in Coral Gables, Florida [src: The Red Bank Register, Red Bank, New Jersey, Thursday, February
10, 1955, p. 16.]

The Phi Gamma Delta, published by The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, Washington, D.C., January
1959, p. 299:

EDWARD INGERSOLL WADE (Georgia '91), retired advertising executive, died

September 29, 1958, at Coral Gables, Fla. The editor of The Athens (Ga.) Banner when

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 he was only 19 years old, he quickly moved to a post of major responsibility in the
newspaper business in his home area before shifting to the advertising field. Before his
retirement from business in 1936, he handled many major national accounts. He was the
brother of the late Peyton L. Wade (Georgia '86) and of Eugene W. Wade (Georgia '88).

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The Weekly Banner, Athens, Georgia, Saturday, June 23 1894, p. 2: “ ... a young journalist of Georgia
who had achieved a state-wide reputation for brilliancy and versatility.”

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The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, October 1, 1958, p. 17:

RITES FOR RETIRED AD MAN EDWARD WADE WILL BE THURSDAY

Services for Edward I. Wade, a retired newspaperman and advertising executive, who
died Monday night, will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Van Orsdel’s Coral Gables
Mortuary. He was 89.

He was the father of Horace Wade, racing and publicity director at Gulfstream Park here
and racing director at Waterford Park in West Virginia ...

... Mr. Wade came to Miami in 1936 after retiring. He lived at 525 Vilabella, Coral
Gables.

He began a brilliant newspaper career while a student at the University of Georgia, when
he became editor of The Athens Banner.

After graduation, he went to The Macon News as editor at the age of 19 and from there he
began a career in advertising, which continued until his retirement.

Despite the demands of his advertising business, he found time to act as secretary to
Charles G. Dawes, vice president under President Calvin Coolidge.

His ardent interest in politics brought him close into close friendship with [President]
Grover Cleveland, Sen. Robert Taft, [U. S.] Rep. Joseph Martin, and others.

Surviving besides his son, Horace, are his wife, Harriet Johnson Wade; another son,
Edward; a daughter, Mrs. Adrian Hughes, Baltimore; four grandchildren; and two great-
grandchildren.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Park.

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MEMBERS: CLASS OF 1891

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Sidney Powell Reaves

Date of Birth: October 23, 1870, Oconee County, Georgia.

Date of Death: September 1, 1955, Columbia, Richmond County, Georgia, age 84, of bronchial
pneumonia.
Burial: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.

Education: Reaves entered The University of Georgia in

1887. He was a member of Kappa Deuteron Chapter of
Phi Gamma Delta there, initiated by 1888; either he or
Ingersoll Wade was the final initiate of the post-Civil
War, nineteenth-century Chapter.

Though a member of the University of Georgia’s Class of

1891, he left school early and enrolled in the State
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now
Auburn University, as a sophomore. Though there have
been Phi Gamma Delta chapter in Alabama since 1855, a
chapter at Auburn wasn’t established until 1962.

The Phi Gamma Delta magazine of April 1964 associates

him with Georgia Tech and his obituary in The Athens
Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, Thursday, September 1,
1955, p. 1 states that he was “a graduate of Georgia
Institute of Technology” in 1890, thirty-six years before
the White Star of his Fraternity appeared at Georgia
Institute of Technology.
Brother Sidney Reaves, back row and left,
standing next to his father, Rufus.
First row, Sidney Reaves’ daughter, Olga,
his wife Josephine, and son Joseph.

His father was Rufus King Reaves (1838-1917) - in 1886, mayor of Athens, Georgia and Quartermaster Sergeant
in the Confederate States’ Army and at Appomattox Court House when Confederate General Robert E. Lee
surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

Brother Reaves married Josephina (Josie) Para y Alvarez, a native of Guatemala, on September 25, 1900 at San
Francisco, California (src: The San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California, Wednesday, September 26, 1900, p.
11.) Her first marriage was to Alberto Axt; she was a widow when she married Brother Reaves. She was buried
next to her husband in the Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia.

Also, The Weekly Gazette and Stockman, Reno, Nevada, Thursday, October 4, 1900, p. 2:

Married. REAVES-AXT - In San Francisco, Cal. Sept. 25, 1900, Sidney P. Reaves of Athens, Ga., to Mrs.
Josephine Axt of Guatemala.

Career: For part of his early career, Reaves was engaged in the wholesale dry goods business and as a
farmer. By 1893, he was an insurance agent in Athens, Georgia.

The Indicator, A National Journal of Insurance, published by F. H. Leavenworth Publishing Company,

Detroit, Michigan, 1893, p. 78:
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 SIDNEY P. REAVES, of Athens, Ga., is one of the most progressive and successful
agents in that locality. He has the local agency of the Merchants of New York, Imperial,
Sun, Commercial Union and the Lancashire Fire Insurance, the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Companies and the Preferred Mutual Accident.

By 1900, Brother Reaves was farming in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. While in Reno, in 1908, he
became the Exalted Ruler of Elks Lodge, No. 597, which fraternal association was organized in June of
1900; he was the ninth leader of the Lodge. By 1902, Brother Reaves became associated with the
United States Surveyor General at Reno and through at least 1910.

The 1920 census of Athens, Clarke County, Georgia indicates he had returned home, again engaged in
agriculture. In 1931, Reaves was employed by the Holman Hotel in downtown Athens at the corner of
Broad and Lumpkin, now the Bank of America building - the tallest building in the city with 11 floors.
For the next 20 years, Reaves was connected with State Highway Department of Georgia, living in
Atlanta and East Point.

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FORESHOWING CONFLICT AND THE DISSOLUTION OF KAPPA DEUTERON.

B
eginning in 1887, chapter correspondence seemed to lack the youthful and optimistic
enthusiasm of earlier letters. More often, Kappa Deuteron’s correspondents wrote of bitter
rivalries among the fraternities and hopes for better days for the Chapter. The Chapter letter
published in February 1887, for example, noted that the chapter was seventh of eight
fraternities in numbers and stated that the Phi Gams were enjoying good relations with other fraternities
on campus, “with the exception of Sigma Alpha Epsilon,” though no specific reason for the animosity
is given.

Thomas W. Reed also notes in his “History of the University of Georgia” that members of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon and other fraternities were involved allegations of cheatings, which led to the expulsion of some
students and culminated with a fight between members of SAE and KA. [Whether or not this incidence
extended to Phi Gamma Delta is not known - jtf.] Perhaps related to the aforementioned antagonism,
SAE withdrew from the inter-fraternal publication of the Pandora, the annual student yearbook which
SAE and the other original fraternities, including Phi Gamma Delta, helped create in 1886. In addition,
and perhaps in response, SAE was “completely shut out of all office or college honors.”

In 1887, while Kappa Deuteron also reports on its honors and achievements, the Chapter correspondence
editor writes that measles had led to the withdraw of several Brothers from school ...

Not long later, another row amongst the fraternities erupted over some fraternities initiating boys who
were not old enough to be enrolled at the University. The Arrow, the official publication of Pi Beta Phi
sorority, reported in its December 1888 edition, p. 35:

“Considerable discussion is aroused by the action of four of the eight fraternities in the
University of Georgia - Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, and
Alpha Tau Omega - in initiating non-collegians. These initiates had never been, or could
not for some years be, students of the University, some being from the grammar schools
[in context of the period, schools for children 10-14 years of age - jtf] of the city.”

Wrote The Chi Phi Quarterly, members of these four fraternities are accused of initiation of the
“knee-breeches brigade,” primary school students. Of these four, only Phi Gamma Delta
pledged to no longer initiate non-University students. SAE, KA and ATO declined to promise to
do so.

“ ... Sigma Alpha Epsilon, whose membership, it may be remarked, had decreased from
29 four years ago, to eight at the beginning of this session ... [ushered] into the full
enjoyment of the privileges attendant of the city grammar school. Soon thereafter Phi
Gamma Delta followed suit ...

And Alpha Tau Omega had ‘gone out and almost everything that wears pants has been
offered a membership in the dignified college fraternity that she professes to be.’

Believing that the consent of the rational young man should be waited for and obtained,
Chi Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Nu have not appealed to the
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 mothers of Athens for their consent to the wearing of fraternity pins by their little boys,
and believing that infancy is inconsistent with true fraternity spirit, they invited
representatives from each of the four fraternities first mentioned to discuss the matter
with them.

Resolutions looking to the suppression of such a practice were introduced and were
conceded to be as conservatively worded as was possible. On the Saturday night
following, Phi Gamma Delta, Chi Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Nu and Delta Tau Delta
voted for the resolutions, while Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha and Alpha Tau
Omega refused to enter into such a compact.”

SAE responded sharply to the story in The Chi Phi Quarterly in its own national publication:

“The chapter here did initiate one young gentleman, a son of one of the professors of the
University, who did not attend college last session. The reason why he did not attend was
not because he had no intention of doing so when he was initiated into the fraternity, but,
because the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia, without that young
gentleman’s knowledge and consent, indeed contrary to his wishes, changed the law of
the University so that no one, until he had reached his sixteenth year could matriculate.
Now this particular young gentleman was only fifteen-and-a-half, so he was barred.”



Clearly the earlier harmony among the pioneer fraternities at Georgia was giving way to competition
and rivalry among the Greek-lettered societies.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, February 1887, p. 33:

T
his is the last occasion on which the present corresponding editor will ever
have the pleasure of performing one of the most important and almost only
duty connected with the office. It can hardly be realized that the time has
approached when it is necessary for me to vacate my chair to lay aside my
pen and to relinquish the duties involved in the corresponding editor to a
member of the class of ‘88.

Fraternity affairs remain about the same as mentioned in last letter. The election in the
Phi Kappa Society for champion debaters resulted in the election of the whole ticket. We
are ably represented in the person of Brother Glen Waters, who has implanted in him
the qualities of a debater well-calculated to stir the hearts of any audience.

Our roll now numbers eleven active men but we hope in a few days to increase that
number one or two links.

We rejoice in the fact that we are on friendly terms with all the fraternities here, with the
exception of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, who by her conduct has raised the pitch of enmity to
such that it is almost impossible for them to obtain an office.

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 The meetings of our chapter consist mainly of literary exercises, which are enjoyed by all
present.

There are besides us in the university six other fraternities, whose membership numbers
about as follows:

• Phi Gamma Delta, 11,

• X.Φ., 15,
• K.A., 20,
• Φ.Δ.Θ., 13,
• Δ.T.Δ., 13,
• A.T.Ω., 12,
• Σ.A.E., 25, and
• Σ.N., 9.

We rejoice to see the advancement that is being made by our Fraternity, and my only
desire is that she may still continue so and may in the future as she has done in the past,
retain an honorable position among her rivals.



The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, July 1887, p. 199:

“Since our last chapter letter was written, we have initiated into the mysteries of our
Fraternity Brother C. A. Talmadge, of Athens, Ga., a member of the class of 1890 and a
most excellent young man.

Brother Z. A. Crittenden, Class of ‘89, was

compelled to sever his connection with the
University on account of ‘weak eyes resulting
from a severe case of measles.’ Measles were
unusually prevalent here last winter and of a
very malignant type.
“Our Chapter is in a prosperous
condition at present and our name
second to no fraternity here.”

Brother Williams, Class of ’89, lost over three months from an attack.

Several of our members will doubtless carry off honors in their classes this year.

We now number eleven: three seniors, four juniors, three sophomores, and one freshman.

Our commencement is nearly two months off yet. We will probably give a banquet or a
reception to our graduating brethren. Will send report of this for next issue of The Quarterly.

We have varied from the regular order and now at our weekly meetings, we have debates and
require that the argument be written and read off instead of spoken as heretofore.

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 Our college annual, The Pandora, is now in press and will soon be out. It is published by seven
of the eight fraternities here. One editor is elected from each fraternity except the Σ.A.E., which
seceded from the others at the first of the term.

The fraternities having chapters here are: Chi Phi ... Kappa Alpha ... Phi Delta Theta ...Alpha
Tau Omega ... Delta Tau Delta ... Sigma Alpha Epsilon ... Phi Gamma Delta ... Sigma Nu ...

Since our organization three years ago, the record shows

that thirty-two (32) members have been initiated.

Our members have already received some of the honors for this year.

Two of our members were elected debaters for the Champion Debate between the two
literary societies during Commencement Week. Brother Waters, from the Phi Kappa, and
Brother W. L. Hodges, from the Demosthenian Society. This is considered the highest honor
that can be conferred by the societies, and we naturally feel proud to be represented by a
Brother from each society ...

... Our commencement is later than that of most other colleges, July 11-13, and we should
be glad to welcome some of the brethren from sister chapters at that time. They will be
cordially received, and we could guarantee a pleasant visit to the Classic City of the
Empire State of the South.



The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, November 15, 1887, p. 2:

THE UNIVERSITY.

The eight fraternities represented at the university are all doing good work this year, but
some complaint is made of the tendency to clique, which exists among the Greeks here.

The evil effect of this system of combinations was shown last year when the SAE
fraternity, composed of excellent material, was completely shut out of all office or
college honors.

It is understood that an effort is being made by the leading fraternities to abolish all
cliques and allow the merit of each candidate to be the criteria of his success. The Chi
Phis have begun to take considerable interest in social affairs, and the Kappa Alphas have
organized a tennis club and musical association.



The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, February 4, 1889, p. 7:

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COLLEGE CORNER.

ATHENS, Ga., February 1, 1889. - (Special.) - The excitement manifested among the
students previous to the appointment of officers has died away, and the sterner duties of
company drilling have taken place. There are two companies, A and B ...

... It is a singular fact that the two captains are room-mates, members of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity, Phi Kappa literary society, and came from the same section of the state.

The officers are divided among the fraternities as follows:

• SAE, 1;
• Chi Phi, 6;
• Kappa Alpha, 7;
• Phi Delta Theta, 1;
• Alpha Tau Omega, 2;
• Delta Tau Delta, 4;
• Phi Gamma Delta, 1;
• Sigma Nu, 1;
• Alpha Delta Phi+, 1; and
• Delta Kappa Epsilon+, 1.

+ - Neither the Alpha Delts or Dekes had a chapter at The University of Georgia;
the representation noted in the story above refers to individuals who
transferred to the school. John Hanson Thomas McPherson, ... at Johns
Hopkins, later became head of the University of Georgia Department of History.

The non-fraternity men have four representatives among the officers.

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KAPPA DEUTERON MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS FROM CAMPUS.
Mysteriously and suddenly, in 1890, the Kappa Deuteron Chapter would disappear; there is no
mention in any record of its continued existence in 1891 and until 1966. Under its original charter, the
chapter lasted from 1871-1878, seven years. As re-chartered in its second resurrection in 1884, the
chapter remained but six years, from 1884-1890.

Whether the turmoil among the fraternities at Georgia contributed to the Chapter’s demise or the early
departure of its members to pursue individual avocations or because of sickness, general dwindling
membership, an anti-fraternity perspective of Chancellor Boggs, or another reason is not known. While
some letters from Kappa Deuteron sought to paint a positive and bright future for the Chapter, it seems
clear that the Chapter faced significant challenges in its struggle to survive. A year after the Chapter’s
second colonization, one rival fraternity publication observed: It’s “becoming rather crowded here,”
suggesting there were more fraternities at Georgia than students could support.

The last few months of existence of Kappa Deuteron at The University of Georgia are reflected in a
letter sent by the Chapter to The Phi Gamma Delta magazine. Although the relative numerical strength
put the Chapter far from the top of the list of other fraternities, Brother F. L. Threadcraft wrote to the
general Fraternity:

“What we lack in quantity, we make up in quality. We undoubtedly

have the cream of the college and are justly proud of our Chapter.”

The Phi Gamma Delta Magazine, March 1889, p. 53:

Our long delay in sending our chapter letter must not be attributed to any decay of
interest on our part in the welfare of the Fraternity but more appropriately to the
excitement and bustle of college life. Our chapter is on as strong a basis as formerly, and
its future is very bright. At the opening of college, we numbered four active members.

We have since been reinforced by three new ones, Bros. F. L. Threadcraft, E. I. Wade and
Howell Cobb Strickland.

We do not entertain a doubt but that the three new brothers will prove exemplary
members and worthy wearers of the purple. We have also three other members, who
though not attending college, take much interest in our meetings and always attend.

The relative numerical strength of the Fraternities is as follows:

• Φ..Δ., 7,
• .., 19,
• Δ..., 12,
• .Δ.., 11,
• Κ.., 14,
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 • Σ..., 7,
• ..., 7, and
• Σ.., 11.

Everything is auspicious to our future success, and we doubt if any fraternity has
brighter or more unclouded hopes than ours. We have a strong force and intend to
maintain our position we have heretofore held in the fraternity annals of the University of
Georgia.”

[Perhaps the writer far overstated the prospects for the Chapter because only two months later
the Chapter writer stated: “It is with great pleasure that Κ. Δ. endeavors once more to exchange
fraternal greetings with her sister chapters through The Quarterly, wishing them much more
success than she herself now enjoys.” Clearly, the future for Kappa Deuteron was uncertain
now - jtf.]



The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, September 1889, p. 252:

At this interesting commencement, the Phi Gamma Deltas have not been without honors.
Two of our brothers, R. E. L. McNeer of West Virginia and E. W. Watkins of
Carrollton, graduates in law, both with distinction.

There is a champion debate between the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies
at each commencement. For this purpose, three from each society are chosen, for merit
in speaking, before three competent judges. [Brother] E. W. Watkins was selected one
of the debaters from Phi Kappa Society. [Brother] Watkins was highly complimented for
the speech he made. The Phi Kappas won, which to a great extent was owing to the
speech of our brother.

H. O. Crittenden, ‘90, is secretary of his class, and the present president of the Phi
Kappa Society.

R. B. Clark, ‘91, held the highest office in the military department of any member of his
class, and he has been promoted to the highest office held by a junior. He has been
president of the Demosthenian Society and was one of the spring debaters, making a
good speech upon that occasion.

[Brother] R. E. L. McNeer, has been president of the Demosthenian Society and is

secretary of his class.

Watkins, president Phi Kappa Society and secretary of Moot Parliament. E. I. Wade
vice president of Phi Kappa Society.



The confidence and assurance of coming prosperity for Phi Gamma Delta at The University of Georgia
seem to have been completely abandoned by 1890. The last known correspondence of the Chapter

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seems to chronicle the Chapter’s demise. A letter from Hiram Oscar Crittenden to The Phi Gamma
Delta Quarterly, June, 1890, p. 239, sadly reports:

“Ours being the most Southern chapter, of course, excites the interest of all, and a wish
for an extension of our order in the Southern States, where the Fraternity received its first
impulse.

W
E ARE SORRY TO HAVE TO SAY THAT K. ∆. IS NOW NOT
ENJOYING THAT ENTHUSIASTIC PROSPERITY which
characterized her in the first years of her re-establishment ...

... but with “never say die” as our motto, we intend to push forward
and again claim our ... place in the foremost ranks.

This has been a year characterized by many serious inter-fraternity quarrels here, and
three fraternities were suspended from any active work for the rest of the term by the
Faculty, but the ban has recently been raised.

Now all is quiet again, but a secret hate still lingers and is liable to crop out at any
moment.

It is an open secret that our Chancellor Dr. W. E. Boggs is opposed to fraternities being in
the University, and it is thought he will make an attempt to crush them out at the
beginning of next term, but as every member of the Faculty with one exception and many
of the Board of Trustees are members of one or the other of the various fraternities
established here, very little importance is put upon his opposition to them. [NOTE: Phi
Kappa Psi claims Chancellor Boggs, who led the University from 1889 until 1898, as a
member initiated at its South Carolina Alpha chapter.]

The college was never in a more prosperous condition and from present indications, she
will continue to grow ‘til she rivals many of the Northern institutions of like character.

Wishing heartily for the success of all sister chapters and hoping we can soon make
a more favorable report for ourselves, the scribe bids you adieu.”

H. O. Crittenden

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The Athens Weekly Banner newspaper of December 3, 1899: “The fraternity trouble in the University
has been adjusted in peaceful harmony and total satisfaction to all sides. The boys will sign the papers
tomorrow suspending the Chi Phi, S.A.E and K.A. fraternities until June.” The suspension put Phi
Gamma Delta - if she still existed - and the other fraternities on campus on notice.



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As Hiram Oscar Crittenden noted above in his letter to The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly in June 1890,
the year in which Kappa Deuteron ceased to exist, this was a time of troublesome divisions between
some fraternities. Writes Thomas Walter Reed in his History of the University of Georgia, ca. 1949, p.
1550:

There was a big row among some of the secret fraternities during this year [1890.] The
details just now escape my memory, but they were such as to arouse the opposition of
Chancellor Boggs, who suspended the fraternities until the annual meeting of the Board
of Trustees and then made report to the governing body, stating:

T
his discipline seems to have had a salutary effort, though it
remains true that in one way or another, the fraternities are
connected with nearly every difficulty among students.

The evils of these secret clubs are apparent but the remedy is not so clear.
Among the evils, so I am told, whenever fraternities appear, comes the
decline of the literary societies from which students would otherwise
derive educational benefits about equal to those of any chair. Literary
qualifications seem to make no figure in their membership now.

In Chancellor Tucker’s time, they were abolished. Chancellor Mell, it is

said, valued them as a means of governing the students. Just how he used
them, I do not know.

Their open existence now is ascribed to his agency. I think that every
member of the faculty agrees with me in believing them to be a great evil.

The eight fraternities at the University, resenting the action of Chancellor Boggs,
presented a document to the Board of Trustees in which they gave their side of the
question. This memorial was not in a belligerent tone. It was rather submissive,
recognizing the University’s right to their welcome on campus. The boys were seeking
to make peace and get back on a recognized footing.

[Meeting in June of 1890] ... The trustees did not abolish the fraternities but a very firm
and impressive lesson was read to the boys by the trustees, who said that in view of the
statement made by the fraternities, that they considered the law of the University above
that of the fraternities and their pledge to observe the University regulations and that
proper apology had been made to Chancellor Boggs and that promise of more attention to
be given in the future to the literary societies had been given, it was not necessary to
discuss or pass on the abolishing of fraternities.

From the minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia, 1887-1891, 1890, p. 345:

FRATERNITY TROUBLES.

But the most serious disturbances of the year were due to the unfortunate
row between certain of the fraternities and the newspaper articles relating
thereto [Was Phi Gamma Delta a party to this conflict? - jtf.] Of these, a

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 full report was mailed to each trustee. A copy of which is for your
convenience filed as part of this report.

Suddenly after 1890, though facing turbulent times but

with strong representation on campus, including the presidents
of the two historic literary societies, the chapter was gone.

The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, October 1891, p. 274:

Complete inactivity has come to few chapters within our knowledge. A number in the
ranks of several have met with reverses and were reduced in membership, but we know
of few deaths ... A YEAR AGO the last Phi Gamma Delta’s graduated at Adelbert and
Georgia, rendering two chapters inactive.

No one, concrete reason has been found for the disappearance of Kappa Deuteron from The
University of Georgia, but it can be speculated that a combination of pressure from the administration
and lack of membership forced the Chapter to cease by 1890, leaving a total of 73 men wearing the
sacred Black Diamond.



THE CIRCUS
INCIDENT

Legend has it,

however, as
handed down
by Charles
Edward
Harman III,
grandson of an
original 1871
founder,
Charles
Edward
Harman, that
internal strife
had a part in
the Chapter’s
demise, the so-
called “circus
incident.”
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University students were forbidden to leave campus without permission. When the circus [possibly the
Athens Carnival - jtf] came to town, many Brothers decided to go, even though it was not sanctioned by
the University. Among the rules on students of that day: ‘going out of town in Term time without first
obtaining the permission of the Chancellor.’ In his book “A Historical Sketch of The University of
Georgia,” by A. L. Hull, Athens, Georgia, Foote & Davis Co., 1894, p. 132, specifically references a
ban on attending traveling circuses:

“The circus was regarded as a delusion and a snare, and under no circumstances were students
permitted to attend it. Professors kept close watch upon the tent, and in order to elude them, it
was often necessary for the boys to black their faces and sit with the negroes.”

According to Chapter legend, one Brother reported the incident to the administration, bringing
punishment on the traveling Brothers. In retaliation, the Brothers forced the informer from membership.
When University officials learned of this, they in turned forced Phi Gamma Delta from the Georgia
campus.” In the group picture of 1890 above, one face has apparently been rubbed out, that of the
informer. This explanation, again, from Charles Edward Harman III, grandson of Founder Charles
Edward Harman.

Around Christmas of 1889, the newspaper published by the literary societies, The University Reporter,
announced the availability of the next Pandora for April of 1890 and named the editors, which
traditionally included a representative of each of the fraternities on campus, which founded and
published yearbook. No member of Phi Gamma Delta is included in the names of the editors.

And indeed, when published The Pandora stated that it was published by the “Fraternities of the
University of Georgia,” specifically SAE, Chi Phi, KA, ATO, Phi Delt, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Nu and
Chi Psi. Brothers Crittenden and William Dennis Reid are listed in the list of the Class of 1890 with
notation of their membership in Phi Gamma Delta, but they are the only ones. No other Phi Gams
from the Class of 1890 are included [not Brothers Crane, C. A. Talmadge, Tate, Threadcraft nor
E. I. Wade - jtf.] Brother Reaves, of the Class of 1891, had transferred to the Georgia Institute of
Technology.

1891 has traditionally been given as the year Kappa Deuteron ceased to exist at The University of
Georgia. If the circus incident story shared by original founder Charles E. Harman is true, it probably
happened in the fall of 1889.

THE THIRD INCARNATION OF KAPPA DEUTERON

WOULDN’T BE REALIZED FOR 75 YEARS
WHEN THE CHAPTER WAS AGAIN RESURRECTED IN 1966.

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LATER ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE KAPPA DEUTERON CHAPTER.
The inclination to revive Kappa Deuteron Chapter and other lost chapters of the Old South was far from
the minds of the General Fraternity. The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, April 1892, p. 130:

EXTENSION ... Compactness, rather than diffusion, must be the sine qua non of further
extension. Pre-emption in the East, as well as our lamentable failures in the extreme
South, precludes these provinces from our territory.

Φ.Γ.Δ. is by tradition a western fraternity, or national, if you will, as opposed to the

provincial orders of New England or of the extreme South. In the Border States, the
contiguity is so close that an active connection with the fraternity life has always kept
these chapters prosperous.

An attempt, however, to force the fraternity beyond these natural limits has in the past,
and will in the future, meet with naught save disaster. Our experience at the Universities
of Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, under most favoring conditions, should stand as a
warning to future abortive effort in these states ... Extension is no longer essential. It
may even be debated if we have not already reached a point where it has become
dangerous

The institutions where Φ.Γ.Δ. can yet enter with honor to herself may easily be
enumerated, and they are already well occupied. An intensive occupation of present
territory should rather be the animating motive of future efforts.

Attempts were made thereafter to explore the possibility of once again restoring the Kappa Deuteron
Chapter, including in 1911 (The minutes of Phi Gamma Delta’s Ekklesia noted interest from students at
Georgia “were turned down by our Fraternity owing to their lack of numbers and the absence of
members of so-called prominence.”

By 1916, the Fraternity began to see opportunity and reward in returning to the South and reigniting its
chapter at Georgia. The Phi Gamma Delta, April 1916, p. 627:

“There have been rumors of legislative tendencies in Georgia which might make it
possible to revive our old chapter at the University of Georgia.”

Famous Phi Gam Newton Diehl Baker, Jr. (Johns Hopkins 1892; Washington & Lee 1894), Secretary of
War under President Woodrow Wilson, during World War I, spoke at The University of Georgia, on
April 21, 1925, an opportunity that might have been exploited to re-introduce Phi Gamma Delta to the
campus.

In 1926, the Ekklesia noted an inquiry from Athens. In 1934, a visit to Athens by Fiji National Director
Cecil J. Wilkinson resulted in no colonization of Phi Gam at Georgia. In 1940, The Phi Gamma Delta
magazine took note that just 15 of the original 73 member of the old Kappa Deuteron Chapter of the
1800s were living.

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E
ventually, a speech by longtime Phi Gamma Delta Executive Director Bill Zerman to an
audience of fraternity and sorority members at The University of Georgia during Greek
Week in May that year became the catalyst to return Kappa Deuteron to the school.
According to The Phi Gamma Delta magazine of June 1968, “He so impressed his audience
that as a result of that message both the Georgia IFC and the University administration
urged Phi Gamma Delta to consider colonization at Georgia.” Recruitment to rebuild Kappa Deuteron
began just a few months later in the fall of 1966. A chapter house, at 1055 Prince Avenue, was acquired
in September of 1967.

On March 23, 1968, Kappa Deuteron was re-chartered and the members of the Colony were initiated.
In 1973, Kappa Deuteron, now just five years old, wins the first of now 14 Cheney Cups, the award
given to the single best Fiji chapter in the United States and Canada.

The Chapter’s first new initiates since 1890 were:

• James M. Allen, ‘68, Waycross, Ga.

• B. Christy Blaine, ‘68, Atlanta, Ga.
• Charles F. Crump, ‘68, Lanett, Ala.
• John T. Heilgeist, ‘68, Chicago, Ill.
• Ronald M. Hudson, ‘68, Columbus, Ga.
• Michael L. Leonard, ‘68, Eastman, Ga.
• Jhan Ivan Mattox, ‘68, Savannah, Ga.
• Danny A. Neil, ‘68, Atlanta, Ga.
• Michael S. O’Neal, ‘68, Thomasville, Ga.
• Douglas Lanier Orr, ‘68, Gainesville, Ga.
• Robert C. York, ‘68, Ramseur, N.C.
• Frederick Alexander, ‘69, Savannah, Ga.
• Thomas G. Bennett III, ‘69, Fullerton, Calif.
• Morris L. Bradshaw, ‘69, Elkin, N.C.
• John R. Cain, ‘69, Cumming, Ga.
• John G. Hudgins, Jr., ‘69, Albany, Ga.
• William W. Lavigno III, ‘69, Dearing, Ga.
• James E. Brady, Jr., ‘70, Thomson, Ga.
• Charles A. Cone, ‘70, East Point, Ga.
• James C. Connah, ‘70, Atlanta, Ga.
• Dale D. Cummings, ‘70, Atlanta, Ga.
• James L. Douthit, ‘70, Rome, Ga.
• Jerry D. Guthrie, ‘70, Blue Ridge, Ga.
• Jeffrey E. Kryder, ‘70, Atlanta, Ga.
• William H. McChesney, Jr., ‘70, Atlanta, Ga.
• Charles B. Rice, ‘70, Atlanta, Ga.
• Lawrence B. Smith, ‘70, Atlanta, Ga.
• Calvin C. Stoddard, Jr., ‘70, Atlanta, Ga.
• Gerald George Adams, ‘71, Macon, Ga.
• Gary P. Cox, ‘71, Dunwoody, Ga.

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 • Charles E. Harman III, ‘71, Atlanta, Ga.
• Michael L. Jones, ‘71, Doraville, Ga.
• Tommy H. Jones, ‘71, East Point, Ga.
• Robert W. Nicholson, ‘71, Decatur, Ga.
• Anthony C. Smith, ‘71, Atlanta, Ga.
• Irvin D. Tatum, ‘71, Hapeville, Ga.
• William D. Tomlinson, ‘71, Atlanta, Ga.
• Phillip H. Durden, Jr., Grad., Athens, Ga.
• O. Suthern Sims, Jr., Fac., Athens, Ga.
• William R. Bracewell, Fac., Athens, Ga.
• Richard C. Armstrong, Fac., Athens, Ga.

Colony member William H. McChesney, Jr., ‘70, was to have been initiated with the other charter
members, but was representing The University of Georgia at a varsity track meet, and became the new
Chapter’s first initiate a week later.

As a result of the installation, four new members became eligible for the “Fiji Sires and Sons” club and
were acknowledged. These new members are Sire Calvin C. Stoddard (Oregon State ‘38, Iowa ‘38),
Legate and former Field Secretary, and Son Calvin C. “Clay” Stoddard, Jr., ‘70; Sire Douglas D.
Connah (Virginia ‘27, Williams ‘27) and Son James C. Connah, ‘70.

Kappa Deuteron’s officers were: Jeffrey E. Kryder, President; Lawrence B. Smith, Treasurer; Morris L.
Bradshaw, Recording Secretary; Jerry D. Guthrie, and Calvin C. Stoddard, Jr., Historian.

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