Resident Member Frances Simpson organized other keyholders on campus in 1900 to petition the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa for the right to found a chapter at the University of Illinois. After a seven-year proposal process, the chapter was approved, and initiated its first class of students in 1907.

This page lists members inducted into the Gamma of Illinois chapter of Phi Beta Kappa from its origin inn 1907 through 1909.

Members Inducted in 1909

• Maude L. Alverson
• Mary Anderson
• Lydia M. Brauer
• James M. Cleary
• Grace M. Clow
• F L. Drew
• Hugh J. Graham
• Elizabeth L. Hawthorne
• N W. Hepburn
• Theophil H. Hildebrandt
• Albert Kastner
• James Piatt Kratz
• J W. Maucker
• C R. Maxwell
• S C. Miner
• Lorinda Perry
• Robert K. Porter
• Frank K. Shrader
• Harry G. Squires

Members Inducted in 1908

• Burt T. Anderson
• Helen M. Atkinson
• M C. Bates
• C Howard Bent
• Lucy Chapin
• Irving P. De Mott
• D R. Enochs
• Ivor Harris
• Thomas L. Harris
• Clarence W. Hughes
• Herman G. James
• R L. Kegg
• Ruth Kelso
• W W. Kerch
• Rudolph E. Schreiber
• Elmer E. Stults
• Effie M. Tull
• Anna W. Williams

Members Inducted in 1907

• A R. Crathorne