John Holt Duncan

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John Holt Duncan (1820-1896) 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 an Artillery Captain for the Confederate Cavalry during the Civil War. He lost a leg as a result of a battle wound on September 20, 1862 at the Battle of Newtonia. After the war he moved to Houston, Texas where he practiced law (district justice 1864-65, city attorney 1877-79. He became Chief Justice of Bexar County. He passed away in the Confederate Old Soldier's Home in Austin, Texas in 1896 and was buried in the Confederate Veterans section of the Texas State Cemetery.

Duncan's wooden leg is on display at the National Headquaters of Beta Theta Pi at Oxford, Ohio.

Other founders of Beta Theta Pi:

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