Excerpt from A History of the Erection and Dedication of the Monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, Vol. 7: Unveiled in Savannah, Ga;, November 23, 1910 On the 18th day of May, 1901, a charter was granted by the Superior Court of Chatham County to the Oglethorpe Monument Association. This Association was formed by six representatives each from the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames of America, the Sons of the Revolution, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars. Its first meeting was held on Nov. 28, 1902, and the object of the Association was to combine the efforts of these four patriotic societies toward the raising of funds for the erection of a suitable memorial in Savannah to the memory of the truly great man who was the founder of our State. The moneys which some of the various societies had been raising separately, were turned into the common treasury of the Association, and increased in like manner from time to time until they amounted, in the year 1905, to approximately $5,000. In the summer of that year, at the request of the president of the Colonial Dames, the representatives from Chatham County in the Legislature took up the matter of securing State recognition and aid for the monument, and on July 12, 1905, a joint resolution was introduced in the House to provide for the erection of a monument. This resolution was referred to the Committee on Appropriations and having been more than once voted down in the committee, was finally reported back favorably on August 10,1905, with the recommendation that the sum of $15,000 be appropriated for the purpose, and the resolution received its second reading. Nothing further was done in regard to it at that session. During the next session, in the summer of 1906, the resolution met with a stormy and checkered career and was several times apparently hopelessly shipwrecked before gaining its final passage. Under resolution introduced in the House June 27,1906, Honorable Walter G. Charlton was invited to address a joint session of the General Assembly on the life and services of General Oglethorpe, and this address was delivered a short time afterward. On August 2, 1906, the bill carrying the appropriation of $15,000 for the monument came up for passage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.