A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . 17th U. S. Battalion 5th Infantry, Ga. State Troops. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. THE NAME AND THE DATE OF BIRTH OF OGLE-THORPE. It is a well known fact that there has existed for manyyears much uncertainty concerning the full and correctname of Oglethorpe, and the exact date of his birth. Thebiographers of this distinguished man differ greatly uponboth these points. Jones and Harris give June 1, 1689,The Britannica (ninth edition) and the
A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . 17th U. S. Battalion 5th Infantry, Ga. State Troops. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. THE NAME AND THE DATE OF BIRTH OF OGLE-THORPE. It is a well known fact that there has existed for manyyears much uncertainty concerning the full and correctname of Oglethorpe, and the exact date of his birth. Thebiographers of this distinguished man differ greatly uponboth these points. Jones and Harris give June 1, 1689,The Britannica (ninth edition) and the Dictionary of Nat-ional Biography give December 22, 1696, and McCall placesthe date at December 21, 1698. In all the letters and writ-ten documents of Oglethorpe extant he signed his namesimply James Oglethorpe, though some of his biographersgive it as James Edward Oglethorpe. In the Biographical Memorials of Oglethorpe by Harris,pages 325 and following, the matter of his birth is discuss-ed at some length, and in the Magazine of American His-tory .of 1883, Vol. VIII, part II, page 108, there occurs aninteresting article on the subject by W. S. Bogart o
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