Thomas Boston Gordon

Thomas Boston Gordon

Thomas Boston Gordon (1816-1891) made a career as a lawyer and county judge for Bath County, Kentucky. He was a civil war captain for the Confederate States of America under Johnson's Brigade. He was one of the eight founding members of the Beta Theta Pi national fraternity at Miami University on August 8, 1839 and received his A.B. degree from Miami in 1840.

Other founders of Beta Theta Pi:

*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"

External links

*findagrave|15173303

ource

* Brown, James T., ed., "Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi", New York: 1917.


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