History
The Sisterhood was founded January 21, 1869, as a seven-member sorority at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. It is the second sorority to be founded in the U.S. The founding members were Mary Allen (1848–1927), Ella Stewart (1848–94), Alice Bird (1850–1926), Hattie Briggs (1849–77), Franc Roads (1852–1924), Alice Virginia Coffin (1848–88), and Suela Pearson (1851–1920).
The first non-U.S. chapter was established in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1911.
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