Thomas Boston Gordon

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Thomas Boston Gordon (February 4, 1816 – January 25, 1891) was born in Hartwell, Georgia and made a career as a lawyer and county judge for Bath County, Kentucky.

Biography[]

Gordon was one of the eight founding members of the Beta Theta Pi national fraternity at Miami University on August 8, 1839[1] and received his A.B. degree from Miami in 1840. From 1841-42, Principal of Academy, Deacatur, Georgia. Admitted to the bar, 1842. Judge of Bath County, Kentucky, 1854-58.[2]

During the American Civil War he was a Captain in the Confederate States Army, serving in the Orphan Brigade. Gordon served with Company C, 5th Kentucky Infantry, but afterward transferred to a command of cavalry.[3]

He died in Fayette County, Kentucky and is buried in the Lexington Cemetery.

See also[]

List of Beta Theta Pi members

Notes[]

  1. ^ "About Beta Theta Pi". Beta Theta Pi. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  2. ^ The Alumni and Former Student Catalogue of Miami University: Including Members of the Board of Trustees and Faculty, 1809-1892. Oxford, Ohio: The University. 1892. p. 34.
  3. ^ Thompson, Edwin Porter (1898). History of the Orphan Brigade. Louisville, Kentucky: L N Thompson. p. 706.

External links[]

Sources[]

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


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