Michael Clarkson Ryan
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Michael Clarkson Ryan (died 1861) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He received his A.B. degree from Miami in 1839 and his LL.B. from Cincinnati in 1842. Ryan was prosecuting attorney of Butler County, Ohio (1848-62) and clerk of courts (1852-58). He was a Colonel in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) in the Civil War and died in 1861.
Other founders of Beta Theta Pi:
- John Reily Knox 1839
- Samuel Taylor Marshall 1840
- David Linton 1839
- James George Smith 1840
- Charles Henry Hardin 1841
- John Holt Duncan 1840
- Thomas Boston Gordon 1840
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