Sidney George (175)

Elected to the American Society.

Sidney George (4 February 1727–April 1774) was a prominent lawyer, landowner, and public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in Cecil County, Maryland, he followed his father into the legal profession and then inherited the family’s plantation, “Little Bohemia.” In 1751 he was elected to the Maryland Assembly. During his three years in office, he sent commissioners to the Albany Congress and voted for a bill preventing planters from emancipating disabled and elderly slaves. His great-grandson Sidney George Fisher was an APS member. (PI)