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At nine o'clock in the evening of the eighth day of the eight month in the year 1839, eight earnest young men, all students at Miami University held the first meeting of Beta Theta Pi, in the Hall of the Union Literary Society, an upper room in the old college hall (known as Old Main). The eight founders in the order in which their names appeared in the minutes were:
John Reily Knox 1839
Samuel Taylor Marshall 1840
David Linton 1839
James George Smith 1840
Charles Henry Hardin 1841
John Holt Duncan 1840
Michael Clarkson Ryan 1839
Thomas Boston Gordon 1840
"of ever honored memory"
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