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Phi Sigma Kappa has 2 sets of founders, totaling 13 founders, to learn. 6 were the founders of Phi Sigma Kappa, founded on March 15, 1873 at the Massechusetts Agricultural College at Amherst(now UMASS). and 7 were the founders of Phi Sigma Epsilon, founded on February 20, 1910 at Kansas State Normal College(now Emporia State University) in Emporia KS. The fraternity's merged in 1985 under the name Phi Sigma Kappa.

the 6 founders of Phi Sigma Kappa(with short bios) are as follow:
Jabez William Clay, from whose fertile mind came the original suggestion for a new fraternity, was a giant both physically and mentally, and came from a hardy Green Mountain family.

Clay was joined by another Green Mountain boy, Frederick George Campbell, a practical youth who possessed the dynamic ability to put into operation the ideals that flowed from Clay's creative mind. Their contemporaries described them as natural partners.

Joseph Franklin Barrett was the youngest of the six, likely the most brilliant, and destined to take an active part for more than 45 years in the affairs of the group he helped to found. He was always "Big Chief" to his friends, constantly amazing them with his feats of memory and mental acuity (he entered college at 16), and served as Grand President for a total of 10 years.

Xenos Young Clark was a Bostonian, a practical joker, an excellent writer and the founders' "local contact;" his father was on the faculty.

William Penn Brooks was a scientist, had a fine mathematical mind, and was responsible for most of the details of our symbolism.

Henry Hague was the oldest of the group, the most mature and sedate, with short careers as a factory hand, carpenter and apprentice seaman already behind him at 24.


The 7 founders of Phi Sigma Epsilon are as follow:
Fred M. Thompson
Raymond Victor Bottomly
Robert C. Marley
W. Roy "Drommie" Campbell
Orin M. Rhine
W. Ingram Forde
Humphrey Jones.