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John Hart Hunter
John Hart Hunter (May 3, 1807 – February 12, 1872) is recognized as the father of the American college fraternity system. He founded the Kappa Alpha Society (KA) in 1825 at Union College.
John Hart Hunter was born on May 3, 1807. His father, John Hunter, emigrated from Dublin, Ireland to Philadelphia in 1805 and then soon to New York where he worked as a bookkeeper. The elder John Hunter married Sarah Hart of White Plains. Hunter, a superb mathematician, soon gave up business for teaching. He also passed on his love for scholarship to his only son, John Hart Hunter. The younger Hunter developed his early education through extensive reading at the Apprentices' Public Library in New York and particularly enjoyed reading the Waverly novels of Sir Walter Scott.
John Hart Hunter entered college directly into the Junior Class at Union in 1824. He quickly became one of the leading academic scholars of the school at age 17. When Arthur Burtis Jr. entered Union in 1825, also as a Junior following two years at Columbia, college president Eliphalet Nott personally insisted Hunter take him under his wing as a roommate. Thus Hunter's plans for a single room were disrupted, and indirectly President Nott set the stage for the foundation of Kappa Alpha.
On November 26, 1825, John Hart Hunter founded the Kappa Alpha Society, the world's first Greek letter social fraternity, along with eight other students: six of them seniors in the class of 1826, and two juniors of the class of 1827. The first meeting was held in Hunter's dorm room and included discussions of the zodiac.
Upon graduating near the top of his class at Union in 1826, Hunter was admitted to Princeton Theological Seminary where he studied until 1828.
Hunter served as pastor of the Congregational Church of Fairfield, Connecticut from 1828 to 1834.
Hunter went on to serve as pastor of teh First Congregational Church in West Springfield, Massachusetts from 1835 to 1837. At his installation as pastor on August 25, 1835, a sermon was delivered by William B. Sprague on the topic of religious ultraism.
He then served as a pastor in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1839 to 1845. He then retired from the pulpit as he was often frustrated by the "dogmatic and ecclesiastical systems with which I found myself connected." He then became a teacher. From 1847 to 1851, he lived in New Utrecht, Brooklyn, in what is now Bay Ridge.
John Hart Hunter
John Hart Hunter (May 3, 1807 – February 12, 1872) is recognized as the father of the American college fraternity system. He founded the Kappa Alpha Society (KA) in 1825 at Union College.
John Hart Hunter was born on May 3, 1807. His father, John Hunter, emigrated from Dublin, Ireland to Philadelphia in 1805 and then soon to New York where he worked as a bookkeeper. The elder John Hunter married Sarah Hart of White Plains. Hunter, a superb mathematician, soon gave up business for teaching. He also passed on his love for scholarship to his only son, John Hart Hunter. The younger Hunter developed his early education through extensive reading at the Apprentices' Public Library in New York and particularly enjoyed reading the Waverly novels of Sir Walter Scott.
John Hart Hunter entered college directly into the Junior Class at Union in 1824. He quickly became one of the leading academic scholars of the school at age 17. When Arthur Burtis Jr. entered Union in 1825, also as a Junior following two years at Columbia, college president Eliphalet Nott personally insisted Hunter take him under his wing as a roommate. Thus Hunter's plans for a single room were disrupted, and indirectly President Nott set the stage for the foundation of Kappa Alpha.
On November 26, 1825, John Hart Hunter founded the Kappa Alpha Society, the world's first Greek letter social fraternity, along with eight other students: six of them seniors in the class of 1826, and two juniors of the class of 1827. The first meeting was held in Hunter's dorm room and included discussions of the zodiac.
Upon graduating near the top of his class at Union in 1826, Hunter was admitted to Princeton Theological Seminary where he studied until 1828.
Hunter served as pastor of the Congregational Church of Fairfield, Connecticut from 1828 to 1834.
Hunter went on to serve as pastor of teh First Congregational Church in West Springfield, Massachusetts from 1835 to 1837. At his installation as pastor on August 25, 1835, a sermon was delivered by William B. Sprague on the topic of religious ultraism.
He then served as a pastor in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1839 to 1845. He then retired from the pulpit as he was often frustrated by the "dogmatic and ecclesiastical systems with which I found myself connected." He then became a teacher. From 1847 to 1851, he lived in New Utrecht, Brooklyn, in what is now Bay Ridge.
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