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Founding of Tri-Kap
- When
- 13 July 1842
- Where
- Hanover, New Hampshire
Harrison Carroll Hobart, Stephen Gordon Nash, and John Dudley Philbrick founded the fraternity on July 13, 1842, at Dartmouth College.
The founding occurred in Hanover, New Hampshire, by three members of the Class of 1842. The group initially functioned as a literary and debate society, later becoming a social society in 1905, which supports its claim as the oldest extant local fraternity in the United States.
Sources
- Kappa Pi Kappa Wikipedia, revision of 2026-04-01
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