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'''Charter members''': Kate Beckwith, Ella C. Rittenhouse
(from ''The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma 1870-1976'')
The 1898 Catalogue mentions 1872 as the founding year for Gamma, but the chapter records say 1873. This discrepancy is explained by '''Marian “Minnie” Kendall''', Alpha—''Monmouth'', daughter of the president and principal of Smithson College. She said that although she left her Alpha friends and went to Logansport in January of 1872, she did not get Gamma underway until the winter of 1873-74. (Her sisters, '''Flora''' and '''Gertrude''', were initiated by Delta in 1875; and her half-sister, '''Abbie Kendall''', became an honorary Beta Beta in 1882.) The fact that Gamma was named “Gamma” implies that it was planned for and became a short-lived chapter before Delta.