FOUNDERS
Taken from Alpha Tau Omega: The Positive Experience

Otis Allan Glazebrook

Born in 1845, Glazebrook subsequently earned promotion to Cadet Adjutant, the highest staff position of the cadet corps, and graduated first in his class in 1866. He had planned a career in law but, within a year, his interest in church work prevailed and he enrolled at the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA. Ordained in 1869, he served a variety of pastorates until his 1885 appointment as rector of St. John's Church, Elizabeth, N.J.

Forty-five years in the ministry, coupled with the friendship of President Woodrow Wilson, led to Dr. Glazebrook's 1914 appointment as U.S. Consul at Jerusalem. Soon after, World War I began and he was entrusted with the interests of eight nations in the Holy Land.

In 1920 Otis A. Glazebrook was transferred to Nice, France, where he served as Consul until 1929, when he retired. This man of the world died April 26, 1931.

   Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall was born on Christmas Day, 1845, the son of a British tobacco grower at Richmond, VA. A classmate at Tighe's Private School described how he ran away to the battlefield at Seven Pines when he was 16 years old, and "participated in the fight with the gun of a dead confederate soldier."

Graduating third in his class in 1866, he taught mathematics and tactics for a year at V.M.I. and was briefly associated with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Co. Marshall then became assistant engineer with the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, supervising construction of 20 miles of track from Tensaw to Mobile through a swampy and malaria-infested area. While so engaged, Alfred Marshall contracted yellow fever and died September 22, 1870.

       Erskine Mayo Ross

Erskine Mayo Ross, born in Culpepper County, VA., in 1845, entered V.M.I. in 1860 and helped to train recruits at Camp Lee for General "Stonewall" Jackson, who cited Ross for bravery at the Battle of Cedar Run. He moved to California after the war, studied law at night, and was admitted to the bar in 1869.

Elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of California 10 years later, he was reelected in 1882. He was appointed a judge of the U.S. Southern District of California in 1886 and the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1895. He was the founder of the city of Glendale, California. Rossmoyne, a suburb of Glendale, perpetuates his name and fame. He died December 10, 1928.

Possessed of personal courage and strong quiet judgment, Judge Erskine Mayo Ross left his Fraternity a $5,000 bequest, which established the ATO Foundation Fund.