List of St. Anthony Hall members

St. Anthony Hall was founded at Columbia College and New York University on January 17, 1847.

Founders of Alpha chapter[]

Bookplate from library of the Railroad Financier S.F. Barger, a founding Member. Bookplate created by the prominent engraver Edwin Davis French

According to the 20th edition (1991) of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities ISBN 0-9637159-0-9, two founding members are cited:

• Edward Forbes Travis
• Charles Arms Budd (N.Y.U. 1850), medical doctor [1]

According to the 1st edition (1879) of Baird's [2], there are four founding members cited, with Charles Budd the only name in common.

• Charles Arms Budd
• William Myn Van Wagenen (Columbia College)
• John Hone Anthon (Columbia College), leader of the Apollo Hall Democracy, a political group that worked to bring Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall to justice.
• Samuel F. Barger (Columbia College), lawyer, railroad director, and financier associated with the Vanderbilts.[3] [4]

The discrepancy appears to arise from editorial decisions by Baird's. Another source provides similar data [5]. A complete listing of the chapter membership in its first few years may be found in an 1881 edition of a Columbia College directory [6].

The book A Tour Around New York contains contemporaneous sketches of life and associates a number of Columbia College students including Barger, Anthon, Col. H.S. Olcott (listed below under Other 19th century) and Stewart L. Woodford (listed below in Congress). [7]

The 1889 Catalogue of the Members of the Fraternity of Delta Psi has been scanned by Google. It lists Samuel W. Barger as a founding member and a lawyer. [8]

Some notable members[]

Arts and Architecture[]

• Chester Holmes Aldrich (1871–1940), architect, partner in Delano and Aldrich, and Director of the American Academy in Rome.
• Winslow Ames. art historian, author, academic, and director of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
• Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge, architect, designer of the current New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.^[1]
• J. Cleaveland Cady, architect, designer of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the now demolished Metropolitan Opera House, and the St Anthony Hall Lodge at Trinity College
• John Eaton, jazz pianist, and originator of series John Eaton Presents the American Popular Song on PBS.
• S. Lane Faison, influential art historian, academic, and director of the Williams College Museum of Art
• William Griswold (1960-), art historian, author, director of the Morgan Library & Museum (2008–15) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (from 2014)
• Robert Beverly Hale (1901–1985) artist, author, curator of American paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and instructor at the Art Students League of NY,
• James Brander Matthews (1852–1929), first full-time professor of dramatic literature at an American university, credited with stablishing theater as an academic subjec
• William Hamilton Russell, (1856–1907), architect of New York City's Beaver Building, Mecca Masonic Temple (New York City Center), and The Langham Apartments.^[2][3]
• Charles Green Shaw (1892–1974), significant figure in American abstract art. Writer, illustrator, poet, modernist painter, collector.

Athletics[]

• Bill Carr, 1932 Summer Olympics 2× Gold Medalist in Track and Field for the USA
• Britton Chance, 1952 Summer Olympics Gold medalist in Yachting for the US, bio-chemist and bio-physicist^[4]
• Peter Daland. championship-winning swimming coach at University of Southern California. US Olympic Swim Team coach.
• Anson Dorrance, soccer coach, inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
• Truxtun Hare (1878–1956),1900 Olympics Gold Medal in tug of war, Silver Medal for the hammer throw. 1904 Olympics Bronze Medal in the decathlon. College Football All-American Team for four years. Elected to the Football Hall of Fame.^[5]
• Wendell Mottley, 1964 Summer Olympics Silver Medalist 400 m, Bronze Medalist 4 × 400 m relay. Government minister for Trinidad and Tobago.
• Chris O'Loughlin, 1992 Summer Olympic–fencing
• Anne Warner, 1976 Summer Olympics Bronze Medal in rowing
• Charles Thomas "Charlie" Scott, 1968 Summer Olympics Gold Medal for men's basketball. Professional basketball player who set the American Basketball Association record for highest scoring average in one season (34.6 points per game).
• Josh West (Born 1977) member of the British National Rowing Team. 2008 Olympics Silver Medal in rowing eight. World Rowing Championships Silver Medal (2002 & 2003) with the British Four, Bronze Medal (2007) with the British Eight

Business and Industry[]

• William "Bill" Backer (1926-2016), advertising executive. Lyricist. Created he famous Coca-Cola ad campaign featuring "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing".
• Martin W. Clement, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1935 to 1948.
• Robert Habersham Coleman, Gilded Age "Coal King", scion of the family that owned the Cornwall Iron Furnace
• Harry B. Combs, aviation pioneer, oversaw creation of the Air Traffic Control system.
• Cyrus West Field, businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company which laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.
• William K. Lanman, aviator, benefactor
• V. Everit Macy (1871–1930), industrialist and philanthropist. Commissioner of Parks, Westchester County, NY. President of the National Civic Federation
• Juan Terry Trippe, aviation pioneer, founder of Pan Am
• Frederick Ferris Thompson (1836–1899), prominent banker who helped found the banks known today as Citibank and JP Morgan Chase.
• Henry R. Towne, mechanical engineer, businessman, and co-founder of Yale lock manufactures^[6]
• Frederick William Vanderbilt, philanthropist, Director New York Central Railroad
• George Herbert Walker IV, managing director of Lehman Brothers.Second cousin to U.S. President George W. Bush.
• H. Walter Webb (1856–1900), executive with the New York Central Railroad under Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chauncey Depew.

Diplomacy and National Security[]

• John Baptiste Bernadou (1858–1908), U.S. Navy officer during the Spanish–American War. Namesake of the destroyer USS Bernadou (DD-153)^[6]
• William Phillips Biddle (1853–1923), Major General and 11th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.^[6]
• Cecil Clay (1842–1903) Medal of Honor recipient, Captain of Company K in the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.^[6]
• Robert P. De Vecchi, founder International Rescue Committee
• John T. Downey, judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China for over two decades
• Hamilton Fish II, Sergeant, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (Rough Riders), killed in battle during the Spanish–American War.^[7][8]
• William Frederick "Bull" Halsey, Jr., GBE (1882–1959), U.S. Navy officer, commander of the U.S. Third Fleet during much of the Pacific War against Japan.^[9]
• Vance McCormick, chair of the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles under President Woodrow Wilson.
• Elwell Stephen Otis (1838–1909), U.S. Army general who served in the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War.
• Michael J. Petrucelli, Deputy Director and Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at the US Department of Homeland Security
• Cornelius V.S. Roosevelt (1915–1991), head of the CIA Technical Services Division and grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
• John A. 'Jack' Shaw, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security during the George W. Bush Administration.
• James Gustave Speth, former dean of the Yale Forestry School, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
• S. Frederick Starr, founder and chairman of the , and cofounder of the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble
• Edward Stettinius Jr., U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Administrated the Lend-Lease Program, through which made Pan Am Airways millions.
• Strobe Talbott, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. President of the Brookings Institution.
• William McNeill Whistler (1836–1900), Civil War soldier and expatriate surgeon (London). Brother of artist James Whistler
• Charles White Whittlesey (1884–1921), Medal of Honor recipient who lead the "Lost Battalion" in the Argonne Forest during World War I.^[10]
• Luke Edward Wright (1846–1922), U.S. Governor General of the Philippines (1904–06), U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1906–07). U.S. Secretary of War (1908–1909)

Clergy[]

• E. Otis Charles (born 1926), retired Episcopal bishop. Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School. First Christian bishop to publicly come out as a gay man,
• Right Reverend William Croswell Doane (1832–1913), 92nd Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America. 1st Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany.^[11][12]
• Charles Betts Galloway,^[13] (1849–1909), prominent pulpit orator and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.^[14]
• Robert Fisher Gibson, Jr., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Outspoken leader in the ecumenical movement and Chairman of the Consultation on Church Union.^[15]
• Mark Hollingsworth, Jr., 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. Founder of Epiphany at Sea, taking inner-city middle school students on traditional fishing schooners.
• David Elliot Johnson (1933–1995), Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Under his tenure, Barbara Clementine Harris became the church's first female suffragan bishop.^[16]
• James Steptoe Johnston (1843–1924). Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.
• Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society. First prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism.^[17]
• Arthur E. Walmsley (1928-2017), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. Active in defining issues faced by the Episcopal Church – posture vis a vis the Vietnam War, revision of the Book of Common Prayer, ordination of women and gays, selection of the first women to become bishops.^[18]

Journalism[]

• Jay Carney, former Time Inc. Washington Bureau Chief. 2012 White House Spokesman
• George Crile III (died 2006) journalist most closely associated with three decades at CBS News. Author of Charlie Wilson's War, the basis of a film by Universal Studios
• Russ Dallen, editor of the Latin American Herald Tribune
• Charles Kuralt (died 1997), award-winning journalist and writer, known for his long career with CBS News.
• John H. Lahr, American theater critic and prolific author, former senior drama critic for The New Yorker.
• Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine
• Andrew Levy, commentator with Fox News
• Stephen G. Smith, editor in chief of the National Journal
• Loudon Wainwright, Jr., editor of Life magazine
• Naomi Wolf, writer, political consultant, feminist
• Jonathan Yardley, Pulitzer Prize winner, book critic with the Washington Post

Law and the Judiciary[]

• Charles Clark, Chief Judge, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Federal Judge, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Media and Entertainment[]

• Edward Downes (1911–2001) American musicologist and music critic. Host and quizmaster of The Metropolitan Opera Quiz on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.
• Peter Gammons, ESPN commentator.
• Alex Gibney, Oscar and Emmy winning film director and producer.
• Fred Graham, chief anchor and managing editor of Court TV.
• Rachael Horovitz, producer, known for Moneyball (film) and Patrick Melrose (TV). Helped found The Cinema School, the country's first public high school specializing in film.
• Jeff MacNelly (1947–2000), three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Shoe.
• Tinsley Mortimer, New York socialite and reality television personality, known for The Real Housewives of New York City.^[19]
• Eric Shansby, cartoonist for various American periodicals, including the Washington Post.

Politicians and Government Officials[]

• Robert Adams Jr., Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1893–1906. United States Minister to Brazil (1889–1890)^[6]
• Joseph Wright Alsop IV, Republican Connecticut State Representative 1907–1909, State Senate 1909–1913^[20]
• Joseph W. Bailey, Democratic Representative from Texas 1891–1901, House Minority Leader 1897–1899, United States Senate 1901–1913
• Nick Bain, Democratic State Representative, Mississippi. 2012 to present.
• Risden Bennett, Democratic Representative from North Carolina 1883–1887
• Harry F. Byrd, Jr., U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1965–1983, newspaper publisher and businessman
• Thomas Clendinen Catchings, Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1885–1900
• Joseph S. Clark, United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1957–1969
• Ernest Cluett, United States Representative from New York 1937–1943
• Thomas C. Coffin, Democratic Representative from Idaho 1933–1934
• Lawrence Coughlin, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1969–1991
• Charles Schuveldt Dewey, Republican Representative from Illinois 1941–1942. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury responsible for the downsizing of U.S. paper currency.^[20]
• Charles Edison, Democratic Governor of New Jersey 1941–1944. Son of the inventor, Thomas Alva Edison.^[20]
• Charles James Faulkner (1847–1929), Democratic United States Senator rom West Virginia
• Hamilton Fish II, Republican Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Representative from New York 1909–1911
• Eric Garcetti, 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles, CA and. Los Angeles City Councilman
• Albert Taylor Goodwyn, Populist Party Representative from Alabama 1895–1896
• Charles Henry Martin, Democratic Representative from Oregon 1931–1935. Governor of Oregon 1935–1939
• Rounsaville S. McNeal, Republican State Representative, Mississippi (District 105). 2016–2020
• John Murry Mitchell, Republican Representative from New York 1896–1899
• Hernando Money, Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1875–1885
• Edward de Veaux Morrell, Republican Representative 1899–1906.
• James B. Murray, Democratic Delegate, Virginia House of Delegates 1974–1982^[21]
• Truman Newberry, Republican United States Senator from Michigan 1919–1922, Secretary of the Navy 1908–1909
• James Breck Perkins, Representative from New York 1901–1910, historian
• Michael J. Petrucelli, founder of Clearpath Imigration and deputy director, and later acting director, of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Nathaniel P. Reed, conservationist and Asst. Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior for Fish, Wildlife and National Parks. Credited with the first Endangered Species Act.
• William S. Reyburn, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1911–1913
• Andrew Roraback, Republican Connecticut State Senate 2000–2008, Connecticut General Assembly 1994–2000
• Daniel Lindsay Russell (1845–1908) Republican Governor of North Carolina
• Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts.
• Willard Saulsbury, Jr., Democratic United States Senator from Delaware 1913–1919, Senate President pro tempore 1915–1919
• Walter Sillers, Jr. Democratic member, Mississippi State House of Representatives 1916–44; Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1944^[20]
• D. French Slaughter, Jr., Republican Representative from Virginia 1985–1991
• James Slayden, Democratic Representative from Texas 1897–1918
• Gerry Studds, Democratic Representative from Massachusetts 1973–1996
• William V. Sullivan, Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1897–1898. U.S. Senator.
• John V. Tunney, Democratic Representative from California 1965–1970. U.S. Senator 1970–1976. He was the inspiration for Robert Redford's character in the film The Candidate
• J. Mayhew Wainwright, Representative from New York 1923–1931
• Malcolm Wallop, Republican United States Senator from Wyoming 1977–1995
• Richard Smith Whaley, Democratic Representative from South Carolina 1913–1921
• Hugh L. White, Democratic Governor of Mississippi from 1936 to 1940, 1952–1956
• William Madison Whittington, (1878–1962), Democratic Representative from Mississippi.
• Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1999–2007
• Stewart L. Woodford, Lieutenant Governor of New York 1867–1868. Republican Representative from New York 1873–1874

Writers and Poets[]

• E. Digby Baltzell, sociologist, academic, and author. Credited with popularizing the term WASP, or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
• C. D. B. Bryan. American author, journalist and academic. Winner of a Peabody Award and the Harper Prize.
• Tracy Deonn, American author. Received a Coretta Scott King Award-John Steptoe Award for New Talent for her bestselling debut novel Legendborn (2020)
• Max Forrester Eastman (1883–1969), socialist American writer and patron of the Harlem Renaissance
• Isaac Austin Henderson (1850–1909), newspaperman, writer, and publisher of the New York Evening Post..
• Christopher La Farge (1897–1956), novelist and poet
• Harold A. Lamb (1892–1962) American historian, screenwriter, and novelist.
• Thomas Nelson Page, (1853–1922) novelist who popularized the plantation genre. US Ambassador to Italy, 1913 to 1919,
• John Lawson Stoddard, (1850–1931) poet, theologian, lecturer and bestselling author of international travelogues.
• Melanie Sumner, American novelist and academic. Received a Whiting Award for her first novel, Polite Society (1995

See also[]

• Collegiate secret societies in North America

References[]

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress – "Congressional Biographical Directory (CLERKWEB)". bioguide.congress.gov. Archived from the original on April 23, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
• Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities 1879 edition and 1991 edition ISBN 0-9637159-0-9, and online here: The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage.
• The Political Graveyard Internet source for American political biography.
• The Undergraduate Record: Columbia College: A Book of Statistical Information by William S. Sloan (published 1881), contains Columbia fraternity rosters for 1850–1884 classes.
• University of Pennsylvania online historical material
• Late 19th-century membership directories

External links[]

• St. Anthony Hall National Website