David Linton

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David Linton (1815-1889) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He made a career as a lawyer in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, and finally Linn County, Kansas where he was a probate judge (1867-69). Also, a State Senator for Ohio (1851-55) before he moved to Kansas. He received his A.B. degree from Miami University in 1839 and his LL.B. from Cincinnati in 1840.

David Linton was born January 30, 1815 in Clinton County, Ohio, the son of Nathaniel Matthew Linton and Elizabeth Rachel Smith. He died August 10, 1889, in Linn County, Kansas.

• John Reily Knox 1839
• Samuel Taylor Marshall 1840
• James George Smith 1840
• Charles Henry Hardin 1841
• John Holt Duncan 1840
• Michael Clarkson Ryan 1839
• Thomas Boston Gordon 1840

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