The Hobart Order

from Chi Phi's Member Resource Book

The Secret Order of Chi Phi, which is now known in the history of the Fraternity as the Hobart Order of Chi Phi, was formed at Hobart College on November 14, 1860 by Amos Brunson and Alex J. Beach, who were students at the college and, being dissatisfied with the fraternities existing at Hobart, associated themselves with John W. Jones, George G. Hopkins, Edward S. Lawson, Samuel W. Tuttle, David S. Hall, David P. Jackson, William H. Shepard, Harvey N. Loomis, William Sutphen and Frank B. Wilson. These men known as the "Twelve Apostles" of Chi Phi founded the Secret Order of Chi Phi which is now known as the Upsilon Chapter. From Hobart, charters were soon issued at new chapters at Kenyon, Princeton, and Rutgers.