Philosophical Society of Texas, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: 2008 Page: 2
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THnE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS FOR THE COLLECTION AND DIF-
FUSION OF KNOWLEDGE was founded December 5, 1837, in the Capitol of
the Republic of Texas at Houston by SAM HOUSTON, MIRABEAU B. LAMAR,
ASHBEL SMITH, THOMAS J. RUSK, WILLIAM H. WHARTON, JOSEPH ROWE,
ANGUS McNEILL, AUGUSTUS C. ALLEN, GEORGE W. BONNELL, JOSEPH
BAKER, PATRICK C. JACK, W. FAIRFAX GRAY, JOHN A. WHARTON, DAVID
S. KAUFMAN, JAMES COLLINSWORTH, ANSON JONES, LITTLETON FOWLER,
A. C. HORTON, I. W. BURTON, EDWARD T. BRANCH, HENRY SMITH, HUGH
MCLEOD, TIIOMAS JEFFERSON CHAMBERS, R. A. IRION, DAVID G. BURNET,
and JOHN BIRDSALL.
The Society was incorporated as a non-profit, educational institution on
January r 8, 1936, by George Waverly Briggs, James Quayle Dealey, Her-
bert Pickens Gambrell, Samuel Wood Geiser, Lucius Mirabeau Lamar III,
Umphrey Lee, Charles Shirley Potts, William Alexander Rhea, Ira Ken-
drick Stephens, and William Embrey Wrather. On December 5, 1936,
formal reorganization was completed.
The office of the Society is housed with the Texas State Historical Associa-
tion, P.O. Box 160144, Austin, TX 78716.
Edited by Terri Killen and Ashley Brown.012 by The Philosophical Society of Texas
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