Founding Era

Home of the Rotary Club of Spokane, chartered 17 July 1911.

Home of the Rotary Club of Hartford, chartered 14 July 1911.

City where Paul P. Harris and Jean Thomson were married, 2 July 1910.

Host venue of the 2nd Rotary convention, Portland, Oregon, 21–23 August 1911.

Host venue of the first Rotary convention, Chicago, 15–17 August 1910, where the National Association of Rotary Clubs was organized.

Merchant tailor and one of the four men at the first Rotary meeting on 23 February 1905. His time in Rotary was brief.

Coal merchant and one of the four men at the first Rotary meeting on 23 February 1905. He became the first president of the Rotary Club of Chicago and remained active in Rotary throughout his life.

Mining engineer and one of the four men at the first Rotary meeting on 23 February 1905, which he hosted in his office, Room 711 of the Unity Building in Chicago. Also recorded as Gustave Henry Loehr.

Jack M. B. Selway's address to the Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA on March 17, 2008, on wisdom, his start as a war orphan in 1944 and singing.

Jack M. B. Selway's essay on the birth of Rotary, tracing it to Paul Harris's boyhood with his grandparents in Wallingford, Vermont and the summer of 1900.