1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL 127GRAVES OF THE FOUNDERSThe locations of the graves of the six founders of Phi DeltaTheta are as follows;Rev, Robert Morrison, D.D., '49,' Fulton, Mo.Rev. John McMillan Wilson, '49, Benton, 111.Rev. Robert Thompson Drake, '50, Lebanon, Ohio,John Wolfe Lindley, '50, Fredericktown, Ohio.Ardivan Walker Rodgers, '51, Brighton, Iowa.Col, Andrew Watts Rogers, '51, Warrensburg, Mo.Pictures of the graves of Fathers Morrison, Drake, Rodgers andRogers appear in "The History of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity,"and a picture of the grave of Father Lindley is herewith presented.The Fraternity contributed part of the expense of erecting tombstonesat the graves of Fathers Morrison, Lindley and Rogers, andthese stones bear the name of the Fraternity. Only a marker indicatesthe grave of Father Wilson, but the National Convention of1908 made an appropriation for replacing it with a suitable tombstone.WALTER B^ PALMER.HERBERT RAYMOND JOHNSON*In scratching my memory for suitably picturesque material to providethe biographical sketch for which you ask, I am embarrassed atthe absence of high spots in my life.I was born in Sutton, Neb., October 30, 1878, I enjoyed whatWilliam Allen White calls "the inestimable privilege" of being bornin a country town. My father has served the State as Railroad Commissionerand Pure Food Commissioner, and is a Progressive editorialwriter of some prominence in Kansas.I have always been temperamentally opposed to the tyranny ofvested interests, and at the ripe age of nine, feeling that my personalliberties were being unduly curtailed by the stand-pat policies of thefamily government adhered to by my parents, I insurged, and ranaway from home, hitting the trail for the Black Hills. After a fewdays of absence I returned, through no fault of my own, to submitto the domestic steam roller, which I have since learned was reallymost beneficial in its operation.When I was thirteen, we moved to Lincoln, where my parents stilllive. I attended the public schools until fifteen, when I got a job asclerk and bookkeeper in a general store in western Nebraska. Atseventeen, while on a vacation trip to Denver, I chanced to visit theoffice of Mr. Wilmarth, then cartoonist of the Denver Republican,made some sketches which interested him, and was offered a job as* .\ sketch of himself written on request of the editor of Cartoons, and kindlylent to THE SCROLL.