David Linton was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi

Beta Theta Pi

Beta Theta Pi , often just called Beta, is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. It has over 138 active chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada...

, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University

Miami University

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 in 1839. He made a career as a lawyer in Wilmington

Wilmington, Ohio

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, Clinton County, Ohio

Clinton County, Ohio

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, and finally Linn County, Kansas

Linn County, Kansas

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 where he was a probate judge (1867–69). Also, a State Senator for Ohio (1851–55) before he moved to Kansas. He received his A.B. degree from Miami University

Miami University

Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...

 in 1839 and his LL.B. from Cincinnati in 1840.

David Linton was born January 30, 1815 in Clinton County

Clinton County, Ohio

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, Ohio

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, the son of Nathaniel Matthew Linton and Elizabeth Rachel Smith. He died August 10, 1889, in Linn County

Linn County, Kansas

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, Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

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• John Reily Knox
  John Reily Knox
  John Reily Knox was an American attorney who was the principal founder of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Miami University in 1839....
  
   1839
• Samuel Taylor Marshall
  Samuel Taylor Marshall
  Samuel Taylor Marshall was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. It was the first college fraternity founded west of the Allegheny Mountains. Marshall was a lawyer in Lee County, Iowa and served as the sergeant-at-arms of the Iowa...
  
   1840
• James George Smith
  James George Smith
  James George Smith 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...
  
   1840
• Charles Henry Hardin
  Charles Henry Hardin
  Charles Henry Hardin was one of the eight founders of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Born in 1820 in Trimble County, Kentucky, he graduated from Miami University in 1840 and received his LL.D. from William Jewell College in 1890. He later became the 22nd Governor of Missouri between 1875 and 1877 and...
  
   1841
• John Holt Duncan
  John Holt Duncan
  John Holt Duncan was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839 and was its first president. He made a career in law as a lawyer and judge in Houston & Bexar County, Texas. He served as a Confederate Artillery Captain in the 31st...
  
   1840
• Michael Clarkson Ryan
  Michael Clarkson Ryan
  Michael Clarkson Ryan an American attorney who was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. he was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and his family moved to Hamilton, Ohio in 1832. He received his A.B. degree from Miami in 1839 and...
  
   1839
• Thomas Boston Gordon
  Thomas Boston Gordon
  Thomas Boston Gordon made a career as a lawyer and county judge for Bath County, Kentucky. He was a civil war captain for the Confederate States of America under Johnson's Brigade. He was one of the eight founding members of the Beta Theta Pi national fraternity at Miami University on August 8,...
  
  1840

Source

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