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Israel Keech Tefft was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island on February 12, 1794. He was educated in Boston and settled in Savannah in 1816 where, he established a hardware business. In 1821 he became joint editor and proprietor of the Georgian. After quitting the business in the same year, Tefft took a position with the Bank of the State of Georgia, of which he was elected Cashier in 1848, a position he filled until his death on June 30, 1862. A man of history and literature, he was one of the founders of the Georgia Historical Society in 1839 and its first Corresponding Secretary. He also had a large personal library of autographs and valuable manuscripts. Tefft became an important civic and social leader in savannah and was an admirable family man as well. He and his wife, Penelope Waite Tefft, had three sons, all of when they both survived

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3-2-1982

The Life of Israel K. Tefft

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