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David Linton (1815–1889) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi a college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He was born January 30 1815 in Clinton County Ohio to Nathaniel Matthew Linton and Elizabeth Rachel Smith. He received his A.B. degree from Miami University in 1839 and his LL.B. from Cincinnati in 1840. Linton worked as a lawyer in Wilmington Ohio Clinton County Ohio and finally Linn County Kansas where he was a probate judge (1867–69).