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Records

OF THE

Columbia Historical Society WASHINGTON, D. C.

Compiled by

The Committee on Publication and the Recording Secretary.

Volume 4.

WASHINGTON Published by the Society

1901.

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Copyrighted

by the Columbia Historical Society,

i 90 i.

Press of The New Era Printing Company,

lancaster, pa-

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CONTENTS. PAGE.

Officers. 5 Standing Committees 6 List of Members. t 7 Communications made to the Society 13 Proceedings of the Society 15 Sixth Annual Report of the Treasurer 18 Sixth Annual Report of the Recording Secretary 19 Sixth Annual Report of the Curator 20 Local Happenings during 1899, Annual Report of the

Chronicler 22

Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on u Old District Families." 25

Memorial to Congress, Correspondence and Extract from Minutes 29

Issues of the District of Columbia Press in 1800, '01, '02.

By A. P. C. Griffin 32 The Origin of the Parking System of this City. By Wil-

liam Tindall 75 Some Old Family Letters. By J. Henley Smith 100

Augustus Brevoort Woodward - A Citizen of Two Cities.

By Charles Moore 114 The United States Capitol in 1800. By Glenn Brown ... 128' The Defenses of Washington ; General Early's Advance on

the Capital and the Battle of Fort Stevens, July 11 and 12, 1864. By William V. Cox 135

Origin of the Building Regulations. By Appleton P. Clark , Jr 166

The First President's Interest in Washington, as told by himself. By John Ball Osborne, A.M 173

The Navy Yard Section during the life of the Rev. William

Ryland. By Madison Davis 199 Thomas Law, Washington's First Rich Man. By George

Alfred Townsend 222 Index 252

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Plate. Facing page

1. Basement plan of Capitol, 180c 128 2% Principal story plan 130 2. Attic story plan 130 3. Cross-section showing interior of Senate chamber 132 4. View of Capitol when first occupied by Congress, 1800 - Thornton,

architect 134 5. Fort Massachusetts, subsequently enlarged and called Fort

Stevens 138 6. Winter quarters of the 36th New York Volunteers, Emery Place,

Brightwood, D. C 140 7. George Washington at the age of 64 (Sharpless)* 190 * The Sharpies (Sharpless) portrait in the National Museum, Independ-

ence Hall, Philadelphia, is presumably the original of the above replica.

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OFFICERS.

Officers Elected at the Sixth Annual Meeting, Held

January 8, 1900.

President, John A. Kasson.

is" T> *J u f AlNSWORTH R. SPOFFORD, ' Vice- is" Presidents, T> *J u X A ' ( Alexander A B. Hagner.

Treasurer, James Dudley Morgan.

Recording Secretary, Mary Stevens Be all.

Corresponding Secretary,.. Michael I. Weller.

Curator, James F. Hood.

Chronicler, W. B. Bryan.

7OO/{LKWIS J- DAVIS' ( J. Ormond Wilson.

Managers classified 7 * f Marcus Baker,

according to expi- 7 *

1 W J McGee. ration of term of ( Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, service, ( Tallmadge A. Lambert.

Clagett Busey, Hugh T. Taggart.

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STANDING COMMITTEES.

O?i Seal and Motto.

Alex. B. Hagner, Marcus Baker, Miss Elizabeth Bryant Johnston.

On Communications. W. B. Bryan, Marcus Baker, W J McGee, M. I. Weller.

On Membership. M. i. Weller, A. R. Spofford, A. B. Hagner, Marcus Baker.

W. B. Bryan.

On Publication. S. C. Busey, Marcus Baker, W J McGee, W. B. Bryan,

Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall.

On Building. Lewis J. Davis, S. C. Busey, Henry A. Willard, M. F. Morris,

J. Ormond Wilson.

On Exchange. James F. Hood, T. A. Lambert,

Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall.

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LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE COLUMBIA HISTORI- CAL SOCIETY FOR 1900.

Anderson, Thomas H., Arms, John Taylor,

Baker, Frank, Baker, John A., Baker, Marcus, Ballinger, Mrs. Madison A., Barnard, Job, Beall, Mrs. Mary Stevens, Bell, Charles James, Blair, Montgomery, Blount, Henry Fitch, Brandenburg, Clarence A., Brice, Arthur T., Brown, Glenn, Bryan, Joseph H., Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart, Bundy, Charles S., Busey, Samuel Clagett, Byington, Miss Marie E.,

Cammack, John, Carlisle, Calderon, Chew, Robert S., Clark, Allen C, Clark, Applettm P., Jr., Clarke, Daniel B., Clephane, Walter C, Cook, George Wythe, Cox, Walter S., Cox, William Van Zandt, Cruikshank, Thomas Antisell, Curtis, William Eleroy,

City Hall. 1408 M St.

1728 Columbia road.

1819 H St.

1905 Sixteenth St. Riggs House. 1306 Rhode Island Ave. 1643 Thirty-second St. 1327 Connecticut Ave. 344 D St. The Oaks, 3101 U St.

344 D St. 171 1 M St. 918 F St. 818 Seventeenth St. 1330 Eighteenth St.

344 D St. 1545 I St. 1468 Rhode Island Ave.

3553 Brightwood Ave.

344 D St. Riggs Bank. 605 F St. 241 Delaware Ave., N. E.

1422 Massachusetts Ave.

1747 Corcoran St. 3 Thomas Circle. j 636 I St. Brightwood, D. C.

1227 Thirty-first St. 1 801 Connecticut Ave.

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8 Records of the Columbia Historical Society.

Cutter, Edwin C, Cutts, James Madison,

Davenport, Rich'd Graham, U.S.N> Davidson, H. Bradley, Davis, Eldred G., Davis, Lewis J., Deeble, W. Riley, Dennis, William H., Dent, Louis A., Detweiler, Frederick M., Dixon, William Suel, U. S. N., Duvall, Andrew B.,

Eaton, George G., Edson, John Joy, Emery, Matthew G.,

Fardon, Abram P., Ffoulke, Charles Mather, Finley, Henry J., Fletcher, Miss Alice Cunningham, Fletcher, Robert, Flint, Weston, Frazier, Daniel, Fulton, Creed M.,

Gallaudet, Edward Miner, Gait, William, Gilkey, Miss Malina A., Glover, Charles C, Gordon, William A., Green, James M., Gurley, William Burton,

Hagner, Alexander Burton, Handy, Charles W., Harper, Albert, Harries, George H.,

1408 G St. 2815 N St.

,1729 G St. 1338 F St. 221 1 RSt.

141 1 Massachusetts Ave. 2020 P St. 515 Thirteenth St. 15 16 Ninth St.

504 I St.

1336 Nineteenth St. 1831 M St.

1324 South Capitol St. 1324 Sixteenth St.

207 I St.

1918 I St. 2013 Massachusetts Ave. 1805 Phelps Place. 214 First St., S. E. The Portland. 1213 K St. 1626 P St.

319 Four-and-a-half St.

Kendall Green. 720 Ninth St. 16 Fifth St., S. E. 20 Lafayette Square. 6 Cooke Place.

1329 R St. 1 40 1 Sixteenth St.

1818 H St, 610 Thirteenth St. 426 Fifth St. Wash. Trac. & Elec. Co.,

14th and E. Cajtito] Sts.

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List of Members. 9

Hearst, Mrs. Phoebe Apperson, Heaton, Augustus George, Hemphill, John J., Hieston, Walter, Hill, William Corcoran, Hood, James Franklin, Hopkins, Archibald, Hornblower, Joseph C, Howe, Franklin T., Howison, Robert R., Huddleson, Miss Sara M., Hume, Frank, Hunt, Gail lard, Hutcheson, David, Hutchins, Stilson, Hyde, Thomas,

Jackson, Miss Cordelia, Johnson, H. L. E-, Johnston, Miss Elizabeth Bryant, Johnston, James M., Jones, Thomas R.,

Kasson, John Adam, Kauffmann, Samuel Hay, Kober, George M., Lambert, Tall madge A., Larcombe, John S., Larner, John B.,

Leighton, Benjamin F., Leiter, Levi Zeigler, Lenman, Miss Isobel Hunter, Looker, Henry B., Lothrop, Alvin M., Lowndes, James,

McGee, W J, McGuire, Frederick Bauders, McKee, David R.f

1400 New Hampshire Ave. 1 618 Seventeenth St. 2108 Bancroft Place.

1420 F St. 1724 H St. 1017 O St. 1826 Massachusetts Ave.

1509 H St. Brookland, D. C. Fredericksburg, Virginia. Department of Agriculture. 1 235 Massachusetts Ave.

Department of State.

Library of Congress. 1603 Massachusetts Ave.

1537 Twenty-eighth St.

3336 O St. 1402 L St. 1320 Florida Ave. 1628 K St. National Safe Deposit Co.

1726 I St. 1 42 1 Massachusetts Ave.

1819 Q^St. 1 219 Massachusetts Ave.

1815 H St. Washington Loan & Trust

Co. 416 Fifth St.

1500 New Hampshire Ave. 1 1 00 Twelfth St.

3112 Q^St. Corner Eleventh & F Sts.

1707 Rhode Island Ave.

Bur. Amer. Ethnology. 1333 Connecticut Ave.

1753 Rhode Island Ave.

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io Records of the Columbia Historical Society.

McLeran, John E., Macfarland, Henry B. F., Magruder, G. Lloyd, Magruder, John H., Mann, Miss Mary Elizabeth, Marshall, James Rush, Mason, Otis Tufton, Mattingly, William F., Mearns, William A., MerFitt, William E. H., Miller, J. Barton, Miller, Miss Virginia, Moore, Charles, Moore Frederic Lawrence, Moore, General John, U. S. A., Moore, Mrs. Virginia Campbell, Morgan, James Dudley, Morris, Martin F., Morrison, Mrs. Isabella H., Mosher, Mrs. James, Newcomb, Simon, U. S. N., Nicolay, John G.,

Norris, James L., Noyes, Crgsby S., Noyes, Theodore Williams, Noyes, Thomas C,

Osborne, John Ball,

Palmer, Aulick, Parris, Albion K., Payne, James G., Petty, James S., Pickford, T. H., Poor, John Caldwell, Powell, Mrs. Altha Gibbs, Powell, William Bramwell, Pulizzi, Mrs. Irene E.,

Ramsay, Francis M., U. S. N.

45 Wesley Heights. 1406 G St. 815 Vermont Ave.

1726 Twenty-first St. 918 F St. 1509 H St. 1751 P St. 1616 H St. 1 80 1 California Ave. 1008 F St. 1325 Thirty-second St.

1729 P St. 2013 R St. 1680 Thirty-first St.

930 Sixteenth St. 1680 Thirty-first St.

919 Fifteenth St. 13 14 Massachusetts Ave. 811 Thirteenth St. 141 West 76th St., N. Y. 1620 P St. 212 B St., S. E.

501 F St. Office Evening Star.

1730 New Hampshire Ave. Office Evening Star.

21 16 Connecticut Ave.

1 40 1 Staughton St. 3022 P St. 21 12 M St.

333i O St. 120 Maryland Ave., N. E.

1724 Connecticut Ave.

702 Thirteenth St.

1404 M St. 2305 H St.

1921 N St.

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List of Members. n

Rhees, William J., Richardson, Mrs. Chas. Williamson, Richardson, Francis Asbury, Riggs, E. Francis, Rittenhouse, David, Rives, Mrs. Jeannie Tree, Robinson, Leigh, Ross, John W.esley,

Satterlee, Rt. Rev. Henry Yates, Shepherd, Alexander R.,

Sloan, Charles G., Smith, J. Henley, Smith, Thomas W., SoWers, Z. T., Spofford, Ainsworth R., Stewart, John, Sunderland, Byron,

Taggart, Hugh T., Thomas, Edward H., Tindall, William, Topham, Washington, Townsend, George Alfred, Truesdell, George,

Turpin, William B., Twombly, Henry H.,

Van Wickle, William P.,

Warner, Brainard Henry, Webb, Henry Randall, Webb, John Sidney, Webster, Harrie, U. S. N., Weller, Michael I., West, Henry Litchfield, Whitney, Rev. John D., Whittemore, Williams Clark,

1713 M St. 1 102 L St. 1308 Vermont Ave. 131 1 Massachusetts -A ve. 1607 Twenty-eighth St. 18 1 8 Jefferson Place. 1333 F St. 1334 Yale St.

1407 Massachusetts Ave.

Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mex- ico.

1407 G St. 1224 Connecticut Ave. 616 East Capitol St. 1320 New York Ave. 162 1 Massachusetts Ave. 28 I St., N. E.

331 C St.

3249 N St. 916 F St. 2103 California Ave. 1 23 1 Pennsylvania Ave.

229 First St., N. E. 22 Wyatt Building, Four-

teenth and F Sts. 1507 R St. 1003 F St.

1757 d St.

916 F St.

727 Nineteenth St. 16 1 9 Massachusetts Ave. 1523 Thirty-First St. 602 F St. 1364 Harvard St. Georgetown University. 1526 New Hampshire Ave.

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12 Records of the Columbia Historical Society.

Wilcox, Mrs. Mary E. D., Willard, Henry A., Wilson, Albert A.,

Wilson, James Ormond, Wilson, Jesse B., Wilson, Jesse H., Wilson, Thomas, Wolf, Simon, Woodhull, M. Van Zandt, U. S. A., Woodward, S. Walter, Woodward, Thomas P., Wright, Mrs. Addie Lloyd,

1760 Corcoran St. 1333 K St. Firemen's Ins. Co., Seventh

and Louisiana Ave.

1439 Massachusetts Ave. Lincoln National Bank.

2914 P St. 1 218 Connecticut Ave.

1756 Q^St. 2033 G St. 2015 Wyoming Ave.

507 E St. 225 Thirteenth St., S. W.

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