Project Scroll Research Note 2026-14: When the chapters of E Clampus Vitus were founded, 1931–2023: a compiled list

E Clampus Vitus, Inc. lists 51 chapters today, in what it counts as eleven western states, but its list gives no founding dates, and we have found no list of charter dates in print or online. This note compiles one. For the chapters founded to 1966 it follows the order's own history, E Clampus Vitus: Then and Now, 1852–1966 (Stockton, 1966); for later chapters, the chapters' own histories, newspaper reports and dated plaques, with charter dates confirmed by Jim Cirner, Sublime Noble Grand Humbug No. 54. A founding or charter year is found for 35 of the 51 chapters, from Yerba Buena No. 1 (1931–32) to Copper Queen No. 1915 (chartered 6 May 2023); for 11 more, the first year in which the chapter is found at work; for one, Al Packer No. 100, the year it became an outpost (1994); and for four, none. Where sources disagree, both dates are given: Wm Bull Meek No. 10, 2 April 1938 (later accounts, 1936); Lord Sholto Douglas No. 3, 1934 (the roster in Then and Now, 1935); Snowshoe Thompson No. 1827, 1956 as Markleeville-Genoa, re-chartered 1976. The list shows the revived order growing slowly before the Second World War (six of today's chapters by 1941), quickly after the Grand Council was formed in 1954 (twenty by 1966), and spreading beyond California and Nevada from 1988, when Matt Warner No. 1900 in Utah was chartered. Project Scroll Research Note 2026-14, version 1. The note sets out the record quoted, where it is held, what it changes, its limits, and what was searched before calling it new. Web version: projectscroll.com/discoveries/notes/2026-14/.