Our fraternity was founded as
an outgrowth of the fellowship the newly formed College of Agriculture felt
at the University of Missouri. Three men -D. Howard Doane, H.P. Rusk,
and Earl
Rusk- conceived the idea of forming the Agricultural club and it was
proposed
to rent a house and live together in the spring of 1905. The club house came
to be known as The Farm House.
The seven men considered to be our Founders are: Earl Rusk, Henry P. Rusk, Claude B. Hutchison, Robert F. Howard, Melvin Sherwin, Henry Krusekopf, and the Founder of FarmHouse, D. Howard Doane. By the fall of 1907, the Agriculture club had become the Farm House Club. From 1907 to 1915, Farmhouse was listed as a club. In 1916, FarmHouse was listed as a professional fraternity and in 1924, with its admission to the Pan Hellenic council, it was classified as social fraternity by the University of Missouri.
The second chapter, at the University of Nebraska, had formed independently of the Missouri chapter without a name, but adopted the name FarmHouse because of the similarity of purposes, aims, and constituency. With the installation of the third chapter at the University of Illinois, the process of nationalization had begun. Nationalization officially came about in early 1921.
In 1948, FarmHouse explored the possibility of a merger with Delta Theta Sigma Fraternity and agreed to a trial merger. Both fraternities worked closely with each other for two years and published their publications together. Because of a disagreement on what the new name should be, both organizations agreed at the 1950 conclave that it would be best for both to go separate ways.
On April 25th 1936, The Michigan State Chapter of Farm House was founded.
On April 20th 1974, FarmHouse became an international fraternity with the installation of the University of Alberta Chapter in Canada.