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Constitution Drafting

Name: Constitution Drafting
Start: 1899-01-10
Location: 504 East Locust Street

When: 10 January 1899
Where: 504 East Locust Street
Part of: Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity founded at Illinois Wesleyan University

Five students met in Bloomington to draft the first constitution for the new fraternity at Illinois Wesleyan University.

On January 10, 1899, Charles Roy Atkinson, Clarence Arthur Mayer, James Carson McNutt, Joseph Lorenzo Settles, and Owen Ison Truitt gathered at 504 East Locust Street. This meeting established the foundational legal framework for the organization that would become Tau Kappa Epsilon.

Sources

Tau Kappa Epsilon Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-23

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