Founding Era

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.

Norman F. Kloker of ROTARY/One recalls the 1980 restoration of Room 711 in Chicago's Unity Building, where Rotary was born on February 23, 1905.

Rotary in 1904? Rotary in 1904 Did Rotary begin in 1905 or 1904? On page six of the Proceedings of the First National Convention of The Rotary Clubs of America, held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, August 15, 16 and 17, 1910 one can read: Whereas, on February 25, 1904 , there was founded

Jean Thomson Harris (1881-1963), Scottish-born wife of Rotary founder Paul Harris, from their meeting on a hike to a 1934 homecoming banquet in Edinburgh.

A one-page history of Rotary, from Paul Harris's law degree in 1891 and years of wandering to the first meeting in Room 711 of the Unity Building in 1905.

Institute Day 2- Headquarter Agenda: Day 1, Arrival and Welcome dinner Day 2, RI Headquarter Day 2, RI Archive Day 3, Comely Bank Day 3, Paul Harris Memorial At the entrance, with Christodoulos Achilleoudis, Cyprus and Nevine Abdelkhalek, Egypt. In the lobby Room 711, where the four founders met 23