Runkle, Benjamin Piatt : 1836-1916

Benjamin Piatt Runkle

Born in West Liberty, Ohio, September 3, 1836.  A.B. [Bachelor of Arts], Miami University, 1857; M.A. [Master of Arts], Miami University, 1860; Doctor of Literature, Miami University, 1899.  Admitted to the bar at Sidney, Ohio, 1859.  Attorney-at-law Cincinnati, 1859-1861.  Captain, major and lieutenant-colonel, Thirteenth Ohio Infantry, U. S. Army, and colonel, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U. S. Army, 1862.  Volunteer brevets: colonel, Brigadier general, and major general.  Regular brevets: lieutenant-colonel and colonel, U. S. Army.  Retired from active service on account of “wounds received in the line of duty.”  Delegate to First and Twenty-second Grand Chapters, and orator for the latter.  Grand Consul of the Fraternity, 1895-1897.  Professor of military science and tactics, Miami University, 1899-1901; Professor of military science and tactics, University of Maine, 1902-1903; Professor of military science and tactics, Peekskill Military Academy, 1903-1904.  U. S. A., retired. Died at Hillsboro, Ohio, June 28, 1916.  Buried in Arlington Cemetery, Washington D. C.
~ The Sigma Chi Directory, 1929, Page XIII

Alpha Chapter
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio
Established June 28, 1855

1857

Runkle, Benjamin Piatt, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts,  Doctor of Literature, Major General, U. S. Army, Retired, Hillsboro, Ohio.  Died June 28, 1916.
~ The Sigma Chi Directory, 1929, Page 1


One of the seven founders of Sigma Chi, along with: Franklin Howard Scobey, Thomas Cowan Bell, James Parks Caldwell, Daniel William Cooper, Isaac M. Jordan and William Lewis Lockwood.

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