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Records

OF THE

Columbia Historical Society WASHINGTON, D. C.

Compiled by

The Committee on Publication and the

Recording Secretary

Volume 9

WASHINGTON Published by the Society

1906



Copyrighted

by the

Columbia Historical Society

1906

Press or The New Era Printing Compamv.

Lancaster. Pa.



TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE.

The Earliest Free Public Library Movement in Washing- ton, 1849-1874. By W. Dawson Johnston 1

William Duane. By Allen C. Clark 14 The Rise of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the

District of Columbia. By Arthur S. Browne 63 Curious Customs of the Past as Gleaned from the News-

papers in the District of Columbia. By Allan B. Slauson 88

Our Postal System. By Francis C. Huebner 126 The Eloquence of Congress; Historic Notes. By Ains-

worth Rand Spofford, LL.D . 175 A Fire in an Old-Time F Street Tavern and What It

Revealed. By Wilhelmus B. Bryan 198

Reprints.

Extract from an Address to the people of the United States on the subject of the Report of a Committee of the House of Representatives appointed to ex- amine and report whether monies drawn from the Treasury, have been faithfully applied to the objects for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly accounted for (Report presented to Congress April 29th, 1802), by Oliver Wolcott, late Secretary of the Treasury, dated at

Litchfield, Connecticut, July 12th, 1802. 217 Also extract from Report of Committee appointed to

make examination of such expenditures, including an account of payments made at the Treasury for removal of the officers and clerks of the several Ex- ecutive Departments to the seat of Government ; also the expenses attending the removal of papers, books, etc 220

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iv Records of the Columbia Historical Society.

Appendix. Officers, 1906 245 Committees, 1906 246 List of Members, February 12, 1906 247 Communications made to the Society during 1905 255 Proceedings of the Society, 1905 257 Luncheon, February 22, 1905 260 Twelfth Annual Report of Treasurer 262 Twelfth Annual Report of Recording Secretary 263 Twelfth Annual Report of Curator 265 Principal Local Events during 1905. Report of the

Chronicler 267 Necrology 269

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATE. FACING PAGE.

I. The Southerner, Built 1845-46; the first Steamboat to carry United States Mail across the Atlantic Ocean 126

II. Page from Franklin's Ledger of Postal Accounts, showing the

accounts of the Georgetown and Bladensburg Post Offices. 132

III. International Postal Commission- Paris, 1863 164

IV. The " F Street Tavern " 198

V. The Southwest Corner of 13th and F Streets, Northwest, -

December, 1905 200

VI. Dr. Jesse Torrey, Jr 204

VII. View of the Capitol of the United States after the con-

flagration in 1814 206



REPRINTS.

217



APPENDIX.

243



OFFICERS.

Officers Elected at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Held February 12, 1906.

President Alexander B. Hagner. T7. D ., . TAinsworth E. Spofford, T7. Vice-Presidents D ., . i T ^

L Job T Barnard. ^

Treasurer William A. Mearns. Recording Secretary Mary Stevens Beall. Corresponding Secretary Michael I. Weller. Curator James F. Hood. Chronicler Wilhelmus B. Bryan.

1Q/17 /Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, \E. Francis Riggs.

Managers classified 1908 /John B. Larner, according to expi- \Hugh T. Taggart. ration of term of ±9Q9 /Lewis J. Davis, service I J- Ormond Wilson.

/James Dudley Morgan, t Allen C. Clark.

245



COMMITTEES.

On Communications.

W. B. Bryan, Chairman, Hugh T. Taggart, James Dudley Morgan, M. I. Weller, Allen C. Clark.

On Membership.

A. B. Hagner, Chairman, M. I. Weller, James F. Hood, A. R. Spofford, W. B. Bryan.

On Publication.

John B. Larner, Chairman, Mary Stevens Beall, W. B. Bryan, J. Dudley Morgan, J. Henley Smith,

Lewis J. Davis.

On Building.

Lewis J. Davis, Chairman, James F. Hood, Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall. J. Ormond Wilson, Weston Flint,

On Exchange.

James F. Hood, Chairman, J. Ormond Wilson, Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall.

246



LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE COLUMBIA HISTORI- CAL SOCIETY, FEBRUARY 12, 1906.

Abert, William Stone, Addison, Mrs. Clare G., Anderson, Thomas H., Arms, John Taylor, Ashford, Mrs. Isabella W.,

Babson, J. W., Baker, John A., Ballinger, Mrs. Madison A., Barnard, Job, Beall, Mrs. Mary Stevens, Bell, Charles James, Bingham, Edward F., Blagden, Thomas, Blair, Henry P., Blair, John S., Blair, Montgomery, Blount, Henry Fitch, Bowie, W. W., Bradley, Charles S., Brice, Arthur T., Britton, Alexander, Brown, Glenn, Browne, Aldis B., Bryan, Joseph H., Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart, Bukey, Mrs. Jean Magruder, Bulkley, Barry, Bundy, Charles S., Burdette, Walter W., Butler, Charles H., Byington, Miss Marie E.,

1520 K St. 1765 N St. 1531 New Hampshire Ave. 1408 Massachusetts Ave. 1763 P St.

108 Eleventh St., S. E. 1819 H St. 1534 28th St. 1306 Rhode Island Ave. 1643 Wisconsin Ave. 1327 Connecticut Ave. The Grafton. "Argyle," Fourteenth St. ext. Colorado Building. 1416 F St. Corcoran Building. "The Oaks," 3101 R St. 2630 University Place. 1722 N St. 1711 M St. 1419 F St. 1925 I St. 1528 P St. 818 Seventeenth St. 1330 Eighteenth St. 404 M St. 1612 I St. Columbian Building. 1026 Vermont Ave. U. S. Supreme Court. 1468 Rhode Island Ave.

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248 Records of the Columbia Historical Society.

Cammack, John, <

Carpenter, Frank G., '. Chilton, Robert S., Jr., I Church, Charles B., I

Clagett, Charles W., Clark, Allen C, 1

Clark, Appleton P., Jr., '.

Clarke, Daniel B., '. Clephane, Walter C, : Conrad, Holmes, Cook, George Wythe, :

Cook, John, Corning, John Herbert, Cox, William Van Zandt, Coyle, Miss Emily B., Coyle, Rev. Leonidas E., Cragin, Charles H., Cull, Judson T., Curtis, William Eleroy,

Davenport, R. Graham, U.S.N., Davidge, Walter D., Davidson, H. Bradley, Davis, Miss Adelaide, Davis, Eldred G., Davis, Lewis J., Davis, Madison, Deeble, W. Riley, Dennis, William Henry, Dixon, William Suel, U.S.N., Dutton, Robert W.,

Easterday, George J., Eaton, George G., Eckhardt, Cornelius, Edson, John Joy, Ellicott, Eugene,

3553 < Brightwood Ave. 1318 '. Vermont Ave. 822 I Eighteenth St. 306 I Eleventh St., S. W. 422 Fifth St. 605 1 F St. 1762 '. Lanier Ave. 1422 '. Massachusetts Ave. 1747 : Corcoran St. Amer. Ho. Life Ins. Bldg. 3 : Thomas Circle. Perpetual Building Asso. 25 Lafayette Square. Brightwood, D. C. 1760 N St. 35 Lake St., Bridgeton, N. J. 3127 Dumbarton Ave. 344 D St. 1801 Connecticut Ave.

,1729 G St. 1624 H St. 1413 G St. 213 C St., S. E. 2211 R St. 1411 Massachusetts Ave. 316 A St., S. E. 1319 F St. 416 Fifth St. 1336 Nineteenth St. 467 C St.

1410 G St. 1324 South Capitol St. 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. 1324 Sixteenth St. 2205 De Lancey PI., Phila., Pa.



List of Members. 249

Fardon, Abram P., Ffoulke, Charles Mather, Flather, William J., Fletcher, Miss A.Cunningham, Fletcher, Robert, Flint, Weston, Ford, Worthington C, Foster, John Watson, Fraser, Daniel, Fulton, Creed M.,

Gadsby, Mrs. J. Eakin, Gale, Thomas M., Gait, Sterling, Gilkey, Miss Malina A., Glover, Charles C, Gordan, J. Holdsworth, Gordon, William A., Graham, Andrew B., Granger, John Tileston, Gurley, William Brooks,

Hagner, Alexander Burton, Hallock, E. S., Handy, Charles W., Harper, Albert, Harries, George H., Harvey, Frederick L., Hearst, Mrs. Phoebe Apperson, Heaton, Augustus George, Hemphill, John J., Henderson, John B., Jr., Henning, George C, Henry, J. William, Herron, J. Whit, Heurich, Christian, Hibbs, William B., Hieston, Walter, Hill, William Corcoran,

1918 I St. 2013 Massachusetts Ave. Riggs Bank. 214 First St., S. E. The Portland. 1101 K St. Library of Congress. 1323 Eighteenth St. 1626 P St. 319 Four-and-a-half St.

3114 R. St. 2300 S St. 1861 Mintwood Place. 16 Fifth St., S. E. 1703 K St. 3028 Q St. 6 Cooke Place. Graham Building. % 1838 Connecticut Ave. 1335 F St.

1818 H St. 205 E St. 610 Thirteenth St. 426 Fifth St. Fourteenth & E. Capitol Sts. 622 F St. Pleasanton, Cal. 1618 Seventeenth St. 2108 Bancroft Place. Ballston, Va. Traders' National Bank. 1319 F St. Office Evening Star. 1307 New Hampshire Ave. 1419 F St. 1420 F St. 1724 H St.




Hodge, Frederick Webb, Hood, James Franklin, Hopkins, James H., Hornblower, Joseph C, Howard, George H., Howison, Robert R., Hoxie, Mrs. Vinnie Ream, Hughes, Percy M., Hume, Frank, Hutcheson, David, Hyde, Thomas,

Jackson, Miss Cordelia, Janin, Mrs. Violet Blair, Johnson, H. L. B., Johnson, Jerome Blakeslee, Johnston, Miss Elizabeth B., Johnston, James M., Jones, Thomas R.,

Kasson, John Adam, Kauffmann, Samuel Hay, Kern, Charles E., Kibbey, Miss Bessie J., Kings-man, Richard, Knox-Heath, Mrs. Nelly Lloyd,

Kober, George M.,

Lambert, Tallmadge A., Lansburgh, James, Larcombe, John S., Larner, John Bell, Lee, Blair, Leighton, Benjamin F., Lenman, Miss Isobel Hunter, Lincoln, Charles H., Lothrop, Alvin Mason, Lowndes, James, Lynch, John, Jr.,

Smithsonian Institution. 1017 0 St. 1324 Eighteenth St. 2030 Hillyer Place. 1914 N St. Fredericksburg, Va. Stoneleigh Court. 318 B St., S. E. 1235 Massachusetts Ave. Library of Congress. 1537 Twenty-eighth St.

3010 O St. 12 Lafayette Square. 1821 Jefferson Place. 805 H St. 1320 Florida Ave. 1628 K St. National Safe Deposit Co.

1726 I St. 1421 Massachusetts Ave. 1328 Harvard St. 2025 Massachusetts Ave. 711 East Capitol St.

,147 Highland Ave., Newton- ville, Mass.

1600 T St.

1219 Massachusetts Ave. 2511 Fourteenth St. 1817 H St. 1335 F St. 344 D St. 416 Fifth St. 1100 Twelfth St. Library of Congress. Cor. Eleventh and F Sts. 1515 Massachusetts Ave. 1335 F St.




McCahill, Mrs. Emma, McGee, W J,

McGill, J. Nota, McGuire, Frederick Bauders, McKee, David R., McKee, Frederick, McKenney, F. D., McLanahan, G. William, McLeran, John E., Macfarland, H. B. F., Magruder, G. Lloyd, Magruder, John H., Mann, Miss Mary Elizabeth, Marshall, James Rush, Mason, Otis Tufton, Matthews, Henry S., Mattingly, William F., May, Frank P., May, George J., May, Henry, Mearns, William A., Merritt, William E. H., Mickley, Miss Minnie, Miller, Frederick A., U.S.N., Miller, J. Barton, Miller, Miss Virginia, Moore, Frederic Lawrence, Moore, General John, U.S.A., Moore, Mrs. Virginia Campbell, Morgan, James Dudley, Morris, Martin F., Morris, Miss Maud Burr, Morrison, Mrs. Isabella H., Mosher, Mrs. James, Moss, George W., Munn, Henry B.,

The Woodley. Director, Pub. Museum, 3d and

Pine Sts., St. Louis, Mo. Woodley Lane. 1333 Connecticut Ave. 1753 Rhode Island Ave. 507 E St. 1317 F St. 1601 Twenty-first St. 45 Wesley Heights. District Building. 4 Jackson Place. 1843 S St. 918 F St. 1516 H St. U. S. National Museum. 1410 G St. 1616 H St. 634 Pennsylvania Ave. 634 Pennsylvania Ave. 1325 K St. 1319 F St. 1008 F St. The Berkshire. 2201 Massachusetts Ave. 1325 Wisconsin Ave. 1729 P St. 1680 Thirty-first St. 930 Sixteenth St. 1680 Thirty-first St. 919 Fifteenth St. 1314 Massachusetts Ave. 1603 Nineteenth St. 811 Thirteenth St. 2000 S St. 1411 G St. 1334 R St.




Neale, S. C, Newcomb, Simon, U.S.N., Newton, "Watson J., Norris, James L., Noyes, Crosby S., Noyes, Theodore Williams, Noyes, Thomas C,

O'Brien, Robert Lincoln, Osborne, John Ball, Owen, Frederick D., Owen, Owen, Oyster, James F.,

Palmer, Aulick, Parker, E. Southard, Parris, Albion K., Parsons, Arthur J., Payne, James 6., Pellew, Henry E., Pelz, Paul J., Pentland, Andrew W., Perry, R. Ross, Petty, James T., Phillips, Robert A., Pickford, Thomas H., Pinchot, Gifford,

Pratt, Frederick W.,

Ramsay, Francis M., U.S.N., Rheem, Clarence B., Richardson, Mrs. Charles W., , Richardson, Francis Asbury, Ridgely, William Barret, Riggs, E. Francis, Rittenhouse, David, Rives, Mrs. Jeannie Tree, Robbins, James,

1306 F St. 1620 P St. 610 Thirteenth St. 501 F St. Office Evening Star. 1730 New Hampshire Ave. Office Evening Star.

45 Wyatt Building. 2116 Connecticut Ave. 3 Grant Place. 423 Eleventh St. 1314 Rhode Island Ave.

1401 Staughton St. 1738 Connecticut Ave. 3022 P St. 1818 N St. 2112 Massachusetts Ave. 1637 Massachusetts Ave. 2011 F St. 1330 Eighteenth St. 344 D St. 3331 O St. 1406 G St. 120 Maryland Ave., N. E. Bureau of Forestry, U. S. De-

partment of Agriculture. Corcoran Building.

1923 N St. 916 F St.

, 1317 Connecticut Ave. 1308 Vermont Ave. The Portland. 1311 Massachusetts Ave. 1607 Twenty-eighth St. 1818 Jefferson Place. 1314 Vermont Ave.




Robinson, William P., Rudolph, Cuno H.,

Satterlee, Rt. Rev. Henry Yates, Saul, John A., Saunders, William H., Shand, Miles, Shir-Cliffe, William H., Shoemaker, Louis P., Shuey, Theodore F., Simmons, B. Stanley, Simmons, George, Simpson, Henry K., Simpson, John Crayke, Sleman, John B., Jr., Sloan, Charles G., Small, John H., Jr., Smith, J. Henley, Smith, Thomas W., Smith, William R., Solomons, Adolph S., Sowers, Z. T., Spear, Ellis, Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, Sturtevant, Charles L., Sullivan, Thomas J., Sunderland, David 0., Sylvester, Richard,

Taggart, Hugh T., Thomas, Edward H., Thompson, W. B., Tindall, William, Townsend, George Alfred, Tree, Lambert, Truesdell, George, Tucker, Charles Cowles, Turpin, William B.,

The Chapin. Stoneleigh Court.

,1407 Massachusetts Ave. 344 D St. 1407 F St. Department of State. War Department. 920 F St. The Driscoll. Warder Building. 2549 Eleventh St. 1207 E. Capitol St. 1738 Fifteenth St. The Union Savings Bank. 1407 G St. Cor. Fourteenth and G Sts. 1224 Connecticut Ave. 616 East Capitol St. Supt. Nat. Botanic Garden. 1205 K St. 1707 Massachusetts Ave. 1003 F St. 1621 Massachusetts Ave. 928 F St. 1530 Ninth St. 618 Twelfth St. Hdqrs. Met. Police.

3249 N St. 916 F St. 1419 F St. 2103 California Ave. 229 First St., N. E. 70%La Salle St., Chicago, 111. 1403 F St. Colorado Building. 1429 New York Ave.




Van Wickle, William P., Warner, Brainard Henry, Weller, Michael L, Wells, Henry, West, Henry Litchfield, White, Charles E., White, Enoch L., White, Oscar W., Whitney, Edson L., Willard, Henry A., Williams, Charles P., Williams, W. Mosby, Wilson, Clarence R., Wilson, James Ormond, Wilson, Jesse B., Wilson, Jesse H., Wolf, Simon, Woodhull, M. Van Zandt., U, Woodward, Frederick E., Woodward, S. Walter, Woodward, Thomas P., Wyman, Walter, Zevely, Douglass,

1225 Pennsylvania Ave. 916 F St. 602 F St. 1410 G St. 1364 Harvard St. 621 Third St. 1753 Corcoran St. 1116 F St. 1232 Roanoke St. 1333 K St. 1675 Thirty-first St. 416 Fifth St. Pacific Building. 1439 Massachusetts Ave. Lincoln National Bank. 2914 P St. 1756 Q St. S.A., 2033 G St. Eleventh and F Sts. 2015 Wyoming Ave. 507 E St. Stoneleigh Court. 1525 0 St.



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