Sigma Chi History

In the fall of 1854 a disagreement arose in Kappa chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. This chapter consisted of 12 men. Six of them, led by Whitelaw Reid, supported one of the members for Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society. Four of the other six members, James Parks Caldwell, Isaac M. Jordan, Benjamin Piatt Runkle and Franklin Howard Scobey, refused to vote for the brother because they knew him to lack poetic abilities. The man they did favor was not a Deke. Thomas Cowan Bell and Daniel William Cooper were not members of the Erodelphian, but their relation to the disagreement was unqualified endorsement of the four. Thus, they became six.

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See also: News article; November 2006 Historical Facts Presented by Frank Arentowicz, Class of 69