Thomas Boston Gordon

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.

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


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