Here is the history taken from our National Website.

Here is the history of the Gamma Xi Chapter.

The Development of Alpha Chi Sigma

        The Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity was organized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, late in 1902, by a group of undergraduates who were fellow students in chemistry at that time. Later documents set the date of founding as December 11, 1902.

The founders of the fraternity were:

        Conger had to leave school shortly after the founding, but the fraternity still grew by conducting two initiations within its first six months. The creation of the fraternity was a collaborative effort of founders and new initiates, but Mathews was the driving force behind the organization. Of the nine founders, four—Holty, Kundert, Mathews and Petura—would eventually become national officers.

        The first Constitution and By-Laws were adopted on December 15, 1902. To Eggers was given the task of naming the new society. His suggestion was Alpha Chi; the Sigma was added at the suggestion of Petura.

        The founders also held a vision of a national fraternity right from the start, contacting the University of Illinois in early 1903. In order to expand beyond the boundaries of Wisconsin, Petura and Silverthorn were assigned the task of incorporating the fraternity. After a flurry of rapid correspondence between Alpha Chi Sigma and the Wisconsin Secretary of State, the fraternity was officially incorporated on January 22, 1904. It turned out that the second chapter of this fledgling fraternity would be at Minnesota, not Illinois. The next expansion of the fraternity also came about from a set of chance circumstances. Joseph Mathews began graduate work at the Case Institute of Applied Science in Cleveland. In addition to his graduate studies, Mathews organized the Gamma chapter of the fraternity

        The story of the founding of the fraternity is probably best told by those who were there. In a 1913 article appearing in The HEXAGON of Alpha Chi Sigma founders Mathews and Kundert describe those first days of the fraternity. That article was entitled "Reminiscences."

Alpha Chi Sigma has over 58,000 members, 46 collegiate chapters and 5 colonies, 10 professional chapters and 7 professional groups!