Transylvania Chapter

LEXINGTON

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HISTORY OF CHAPTER NAME

The name Transylvania comes from Latin and means "across the woods." That name was a good description of the vast, heavily forested region settled by a pioneering land company, whose chief scout was Daniel Boone. This area remained a part of Virginia until Kentucky achieved statehood in 1792, and it still marked the nation's western frontier in 1780 when the college bearing the same name became the sixteenth college in the United States. Transylvania College carries the distinction of being the oldest school west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Office Title	Officer Name

Regent	Nancy Thoma
Vice Regent	Roberta Watts
Chaplain	Robin Fisher
Corresponding Secretary	Eleanor Withrow
Recording Secretary	Michelle Moody
Treasurer	Donna Hughes
Registrar	Julia Mitchel
Historian	Nancy Freeman

CHAPTER PATRIOTS

SAMUEL AUXIER of Virginia	SAMUEL LAMB of Massachusetts
GEORGE BALL of Virginia	JABEZ MORRILL of New Hampshire
JESSE BOLLING of North Carolina	WILLIAM NEWMAN of Virginia
GEO. CALHOUN of Virgina & Pennsylvania	GEORGE NICHOLAS of Virginia
JUSTINIAN CARTWRIGHT of Virginia	REUBEN NOBLE of Vermont
JOHN COMBS, JR. of Virginia	JOHN PARMELEE of North Carolina
JOSEPH CURD of Virginia	THOMAS PAXTON of Pennsylvania
ELIJAH FREEMAN of New York	JOHN SPENCER of Virginia
HEZEKIAH GRANT of Connecticut	JOSEPH SPENCER of Virginia
NATHAN GILBERT of Virginia	JAMES STEVENSON of Pennsylvania
PATRICK GILMORE of North Carolina	NELSON ANDERSON THOMPSON of Virginia
SAMUEL GREER/GRIER of Pennsylvania	HUMPHREY TIFFANY of Massachusetts
JOHN HAGER of Massachusetts	JOHN TIFFANY of Massachusetts
BENJAMIN HOWARD of North Carolina	JOHN WATSON of Virginia
BENJAMIN ISHMAEL of Pennsylvania	JOHN WEAVER of Virginia
SAMUEL KNOX of Virginia	JACOB WILHEM of Pennsylvania