Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-14
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AFTER FORTN-FOUk hhANS'
The anniversary Meeting of the Georgia
UistoricaI Society-The Annual Elec-
to-, nj OaicerS-Treasurer and Libra
rams Reports-ResOlutiOns of Re
spect.
The annual meeting of the Georgia His
torical Society was held on Monday after
noon at O'Clock, the President, Gen.
Henry r. jackson, in the chair.
The minutes of the last annual meeting
were read and approved.
Mr.. r. r. Scott and DIR. L. A. Falligant
evere elected resident members.
Messrs. W. n. Holt and L. l.. Demere
were appointed committee to examine
the Treasurer's account and report ON the
same, and afterwards reported that they
had carefully gone over his book and found
il correct in every particular, and that
proper vouchers for all amounts paid out
had been submitted to them.
The Library Committee recommended
the following books, which were ordered
10 be purchased:
short Studies on Great Subjects. Fourth
series. BY }. A. FrOude. Scribner.
The Religions of the Ancient World. BY
Geo. RawlinsOn. Scribner.
Democracy: n Novel. II. Holt X Co.
Portia. BY the author of "MOlly Bawn."
4 Landlubber's Log. BY NJ. MacNIi-
chael. LippincOtt Il Co.
RagnarOk: the Age of Fire and Gravel.
BY I. DOnnelly. Appleton & Coz
The colonies Daughter. BY Capt. Chas.
King. Lippincott 4 Co.
Renaissance in Italy. Italian Litera-
ture. parts. BY J. \. Symonds. I'll. Holt
AZ Co.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting to prepare resolutions on the
death of the sOcety's late First Vice
President. DR.. W. NJ. Charters, reported
through their Chairman, Or. j. G. ThOm-
as. as follows, which report was unani-
mOuslv adopted.
William Morris Charters was born in
Florida township. Montgomery county,
y. Y. January 26th, 1906. and died in
savannah, Ga, January 9th, 1888. He
was the son of George Charters and Anna
CMcLaren) Charters, both natives of An
nOndale, Scotland, the former a descend
ant of the Charities of kinfOnus. His
literary and classical education was re-
ceived from private tutors in New York
and Cincinnati, and he pursued his medi-
cal studies in the Cincinnati Medical Col
lege, whence he graduated NJ. ID. IN 1886.
He settled first in Lebanon, Warren
county, Ohio, and remained there until
1850. when he moved TO Savannah. He was
member of the Lebanon Medical Society,
was one of its founders in 1885, and its
President it 1913. He was also a member
of the Georgia Medical Society Of SaVan-
nah, and of the Georgia State Medical As
ISOLATION, and was twice President of the
tOrmer-tn 1906 and 1874, and of the latter
in 1867. His contributions to medical
literature consist of addresses before
societies, pamphlets, and essays on yari-
Gus medical subjects. In 1851 The was
elected member of the Georgia Historical
Society, and has been annually elected its
First Vice President since 1866. In 1866
he was elected Professor of Chemistry in
the savannah Medical College, and held
the office up to the time of his death. In
1873 he was appointed a member of the
Board of Public Education of Savannah.
In June, 1927, he married Cynthia
DuttOn, daughter Of DR.. lZsonGs J. Seely.
of Geneva, Pa seId granddaughter of
Colonel JOHN ceely. whe occupied impOr-
tant military positions in New Jersey
Sdring the Revolutionary war. She died
in 1860. In 1866 he married Emily Aspin-
wall. daughter Of DIR. Thomas Cleveland,
late Of Providence, r. 1.
In his domestic relations he was genial
and unselfish: in his professional life in
telligent, devoted and sympathetic; in his
official capacity labOriOuS. painstaking
and faithful.
The interest that DR.. Charters ever
took in the welfare of the Georgia His
tOrical Society was, if possible, increased
IN the last year of his life. 1t took new
and most useful shape, and the society
owes 10 him the valuable work of LAYING
out and planting its lot with shrubs and
plants indigenous to Georgia, with the
hope of making it complete hereafter. \
good beginning was made. suggestive of
what he hoped to accomplish in this de-
sign. had not death Overtaken him. With
him it was labor OF love, on which no
exposure to heat or cold or wet was ever
cared for or refused. In this view, there
fore,
Res0lced. That the Georgia Historical
Society has lost in the death Of its late
First Vice President, DR.. VIM. NJ.
Charters, a useful and devoted member of
thirty years standing, and most valuable
officer of nearly twenty years service,
during which periods he gave most freely
of his time. thoughts and labOrs, to the
promotion of the good and the advance
ment Of the progress of the society.
ResOloed, That the society owes to none
Of its members or officers warmer thanks,
nor feels deeper gratitude than to its
Iamented associate, DIR. Charters, whose
interest and zeal in the sOclety's behalf
never tagged nor ceased.
ReSOIred, That this preamble and these
resolutions be spread on our journal, and
a copy thereof be published in the MORN
ING NEWS.
ReSOlred That an attested copy thereof
be also sent to his widow, Mrs. Emily
Charters. Lebanon, Ohio, with the sOci-
etv's sincereSt coincidence.
!. G. THOMAS,
Il. J. NUM-,
W. :. BOGART,
Committee.