Samuel Taylor Marshall

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Samuel Taylor Marshall (1812-1895) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. It was the first college fraternity founded west of the Allegheny Mountains. Made a career as a lawyer in Lee County, Iowa and served as the sergeant-at-arms of the Iowa legislature (1846-8). He was the oldest of the eight founders and received his A.B. degree in 1840.

Other founders of Beta Theta Pi:

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

[edit] Source

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