How much biographical research on your Founders?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by naraht

Just curious, for the founders of your fraternity/sorority, how much biographical information has been acquired by your fraternity/sorority for the widespread knowledge of the members.

For example, are the following included.
1) Their Religion
2) What companies they worked for during their lives
3) The name of their spouses (and with that whether they were married)
4) Birth location and date
5) Death location and date.
6) Burial location.
7) Education (including schools attended for Graduate work)

Just trying to figure out, how much is too much information to try to gather on the Alpha Phi Omega founders as we approach our 100th anniversary.

We have a founder that died in WWII, and we have conflicting information as to whether he died in North Africa, or during an evacuation to Britain. Sources differ by as much as two weeks...

We do have the information about where each is buried. For our 100th anniversary, medallions were placed on each headstone to indicate that they were a founder of Alpha Gamma Delta. A ceremony was held. I was local to one of them, Emily Helen Butterfield, mentioned above. There is a ton of information about her in Michigan. She is in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for being the first licensed female architect. She was admitted to that hall of fame when I was an advisor to my chapter and Alpha Gams from all over the state attended the reception and induction in Lansing. It was an incredible experience. She also studied Heraldry, wrote a book about it and was consulted in the creation of coats of arms for several fraternities and sororities.

We know which were married because of the naming convention we follow - First Name, Maiden Name, Married Name (and we keep adding on Married names when applicable) One of our Founders was Jennie Titus Smith Morris (two marriages). Emily Helen Butterfield never married. I'm sure our archives have the birth date and probably the location too. I don't recall hearing information about religion or education after their degrees at Syracuse.