The Varnum Continentals were founded on October 1, 1907, by Howard V. Allen, Benjamin H. Arnold, D. Ray Arnold, George E. Bailey, Henry D. Banks, Walter O. Barber, Albert S. Benson, Thomas W. Black, Jr., Nathaniel H. Brown, William A. Browning, Eberhard R. Butts, George F. Butts, Frank C. Church, William W. Clapp, Arthur A. Barnshaw, Charles C. Eldredge, Henry P. Eldredge, Jr., Lucius G. Eldredge, William F. Ellis, Louis W. Farrington, W. Stuart Franklin, Walter W. Franklin, Thomas J. Freeman, Frederick C. Greene, Frank R. Hill, Frederick H. Hood, Herbert B. Horton, Richard A. Houghton, Ralph Madison, Fred S. Magoon, William J. McClure, William M. Owen, Edward P. Powers, William L. Sharpe, Allen E. Shippee, Henry E. Soule, Edmund Spooner, Elmer L. Stewart, Charles F. Strickland, Fenwick G. Taggart, Henry A. Thomas, George P. Tyler, and George A. White, Jr.; by October 1, 1937, the thirtieth anniversary of the command, George E. Bailey, Nathaniel H. Brown, William A. Browning, William W. Clapp, William F. Ellis, Frederick C. Greene, Herbert B. Horton, Ralph Madison, Fred S. Magoon, Edward P. Powers, William L. Sharpe, and Henry A. Thomas were deceased.