Thursday, May 31, 2007

Georgia Historical Society


Chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1839, the Georgia Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the historical society for the people of Georgia.
Headquartered in Savannah, Georgia's first city, the Society is the oldest cultural institution in the state and one of the oldest historical organizations in the nation.
Among the group of visionaries who founded the Society were some of the most distinguished statesmen and intellectual leaders of the day: U.S. Attorney General John Macpherson Berrien; American Medical Association founder Dr. Richard D. Arnold; U.S. Congressmen Eugenius A. Nisbet and Thomas Butler King; planter James Hamilton Couper; and U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Moore Wayne, to name a few. Honorary members included four U.S. presidents: John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and William Henry Harrison.
In order to forge a link between themselves and the earliest days of the state, the founders of the Georgia Historical Society adopted as their logo the old Colonial seal used by the Trustees. And to demonstrate their commitment to public service, they took as their motto the latin phrase employed by the Trustees more than a century earlier: "Non Sibi, Sed Aliis" - not for self, but for others.

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