James George Smith
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James George Smith (August 20, 1819–September 16, 1849) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He was never in good health and after graduating from Miami University in 1840, he became a farmer in Powhatan County, Virginia and died on September 16, 1849 from what might have been smallpox. He is the only founder of Beta Theta Pi for which a photo does not exist (or yet to be found). Beta Theta Pi founder Samuel Taylor Marshall described Smith as a "...pale, studious, quiet fellow in delicate health." Smith was buried in the Smith family cemetery and reinterred in the Miami Cemetery at Corwin, Ohio in November 1867.
Other founders of Beta Theta Pi:
- John Reily Knox 1839
- Samuel Taylor Marshall 1840
- David Linton 1839
- Charles Henry Hardin 1841
- John Holt Duncan 1840
- Michael Clarkson Ryan 1839
- Thomas Boston Gordon 1840
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- Brown, James T., ed., Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi, New York: 1917.
