PSI PHI CHAPTER


THE FOUNDERS

 

CHARTER MEMBERS

PSI PHI OF DELTA KAPPA EPSILON

Established November 8, 1866

 

Numbers 1 - 13 before names represent initiation ranking 

per early chapter minutes.  There are two men ranked 3.

 

 

 

HONORARY MEMBERS of PSI PHI


1.  CONRAD BAKER (bio)

INDIANA GOVERNOR

 

 

2.  RICHARD WIGGINTON THOMPSON (bio

SECRETARY OF THE U.S. NAVY, 

HIGHEST US OFFICIAL FROM INDIANA

 

 

 

CHAPTER FOUNDERS


3.  THOMAS BENTON DOWNS '66,  B.S.

(Attended Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery 1873-74)

(Died Burlington, IA 4/25 or 26/74)

 

 

3.  James Finley Allen '67

(dec. 3/15/1876)

...related to Allens '84, '91, '98?

 

 

4.  JAMES WINFORD RECTOR '67

Entered College 1863, From Bedford, IN

(Attorney in Washington, KS)

 

 

5.  JAMES FINLEY ELLIOTT '68, B.S.

First chapter president

Lawyer, Judge, DePauw Trustee

 

 

6.  John Eugene Iglehart '68 (bio

(father of E.H.I. '95 and J.H.I. '02)

Lawyer, Historian, DePauw Trustee

 

 

7.  JOHN ING '68, A.B.A.M. (bio)

Valedictorian of Class of 1868

Missionary to China, Teacher in Japan

Responsible for Japanese students at DePauw

 

 

8.  WILLIAM EDWIN ROBBINS '68, A.B.A.M.

Born 3/8/45 near Paoli, IN

was first Bro. Rho

Minister in India

(...check relation to Robbins in '04, '37, '60' '71)

 

 

9.  Thomas Wise Durham '69

 

 

10. MELVILLE REEVES HOPEWELL '69 (bio)

Lawyer in Nebraska.  

1887: Appointed Judge for the Third District.

1892: Re-appointed for second four-year term.

Nebraska Lieutenant Governor (Republican) 

Elected 1907, re-elected 1909, re-elected 1911.

Died in office May 2, 1911, in Tekamah, NE

(...check relation to Hopewell '16)

Civil War letter referencing MRW

 

 

11. John Hugh Shultz '69

 

 

12. Jacob Keithly Walts '69

(sometimes spelled Waltz) 

(have photo #18)

 

 

13. Andrew Jackson Youngblood '69

 


 

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