By "in front of," do you mean what fraternities came before the Miami Triad?
If so,
Kappa Alpha Society, not to be confused with
Kappa Alpha Order (part of the Lexington Triad), was founded in 1825 at Union College (Schenectady, NY) and is the oldest general fraternity as we now know them. (Chi Phi Society had been founded at Princeton in 1824, but it was only active for a year or so. 30 years later it was reorganized when records -- including the constitution and ritual -- were found by the nephew of a Princeton president. It later merged with two other organizations named Chi Phi to form the present
Chi Phi. As already noted, Phi Beta Kappa had been founded earlier as a literary society and evolved into an honor society.)
KA Society was the first fraternity in the Union Triad, and was followed by
Sigma Phi and
Delta Phi, both in 1827. Other fraternities, not part of the "Triad," followed at Union:
Psi Upsilon in 1833,
Chi Psi in 1841, and
Theta Delta Chi in 1847.
Sigma Phi became the first "national" fraternity when it chartered a chapter at Hamilton College in 1831.
Alpha Delta Phi was organized at Hamilton the following year. Expansion of the various groups followed.
Delta Upsilon was founded in as a non-secret fraternity at Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) in 1834 in response to Kappa Alpha and Delta Phi's arrival at the campus.
Similarly, the chartering of the Alpha Delta Phi chapter at Miami was part of the impetus for the founding of
Beta Theta Pi in 1839. Beta was the first fraternity of the Miami Triad, followed by
Phi Delta Theta in 1848 and
Sigma Chi in 1855.
Delta Zeta was also founded at Miami (in 1902) and
Phi Kappa Tau was founded there in 1906.
The
Mystical Seven was founded in 1837 at Wesleyan University (Conn); to some degree, the Mystical Seven later became part of Beta Theta Pi.
Meanwhile,
Zeta Psi was founded at New York University in 1847,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded at the University of Alabama in 1856, and
Delta Tau Delta was founded at Bethany College (in what is now WV) in 1858. The Delts later absorbed WWW, or Rainbow, which had been founded at the University of Mississippi in 1849.
Kappa Sigma Phi was founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1850 And there was the Jefferson Duo at Jefferson College (Canonsburg, PA):
Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) in 1848 and
Phi Kappa Psi in 1852.
That pretty much gets us up to the Civil War and the time of the founding of Sigma Chi, the youngest of the Miami Triad, although I'm sure I left someone out. My apologies in advance.
ETA: I didn't catch when I first posted this that I was responding to someone who asked the question over seven years ago.
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