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Records

OF THE

Columbia Historical Society WASHINGTON, D. C.

Compiled by

The Committee on Publication and the

Recording Secretary

Volume 10

WASHINGTON Published by the Society

1907



Copyrighted

by the

Columbia Historical Society

1907

Press of The New Era Printing Conpaky,

Lancaster. Pa,



TABLE OP CONTENTS.

Page.

The Life and Times of Ann Royall, 1769-1854. By Miss Sarah Harvey Porter 1

Tree Culture, or a sketch of Nurseries in the District of Columbia. By John A. Saul 38

A Ramble along the Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia with a Camera. By Fred E. Woodward. . 63

Prefatory note to Thornton Diary. By Worthington C. Ford 88

Diary of Mrs. William' Thornton, 1800 89

Appendix. Officers for 1907 229 Committees for 1907 230 List of Members on March 11, 1907 231 Communications made to the Society during 1906 238 Proceedings of the Society during 1906 239 Letter of retiring President John A. Kasson to the

Society 242 Resolutions adopted by the Society in reply , 242 In Memoriam- Lewis J. Davis. By Alexander B.

Uagner 243 Report of Committee in reference to the Marking of His-

toric Places in the City of Washington 247 Report of Treasurer 250 Thirteenth Annual Report of the Recording Secretary. . . 251 Thirteenth Annual Report of the Curator 253 Report of the Chronicler; Principal Local Events of the

Tear 1906 255 Necrology 256 Index 257

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

FLATE NO. FACING PAGE.

I. Facsimile, Volume I. No. I. The Huntress, Courtesy of the Library of Congress I

II. Photograph of Major John Adlum 38 III. Home of John Adlum, facing Southwest 40 IV. Home of Joshua Peirce, facing Northwest : . 48 V. Home of Joshua Peirce, facing South 50

VI. Photograph of John Saul- by Rice 52 VII. Home of John Saul, facing East 56

VIII. Diagram showing scheme of lettering on intermediate and corner stones, Boundary District of Columbia 64

IX. Northwest No. 4, near Chain Bridge; Northwest No. 5, near Receiving Reservoir 66

X. Northwest No. 6, American University Park; Northwest No. 7, near Chevy Chase Circle, Bannockburn Golf Club 66

XI. Northwest No. 8, near Pinehurst; Northwest No. 9, near upper end of Rock Creek Park 68

XII. North corner, near Woodside, Md. - on land of C. A. Snow; Northeast No. 1, near Silver Springs and Blair Lee Farm 68

XIII. Northeast No. 2, in Takoma Park - edge of sidewalk; Northeast No. 3, near Stott's Station in edge of woods 70

XIV. Northeast No. 4, near Sergeant Road; Northeast No. 5, near Queen's Chapel Road 72

XV. Northeast No. 6, near Brentwood Road; Northeast No. 7, back of Reform School 74

XVI. Northeast No. 8, Kenilworth, D. C. ; Northeast No. 9, near Burrville 74

XVII. East corner, near end of Electric Railroad at Chesapeake Beach Railroad Station - in open marsh; Southeast No. 1, near Capitol Heights 76

A VIII. Southeast No. 2, near the Bowen Road - in open pasture; Southeast No. 3, near the Suit Road - abnormal size ... 78

XIX. Southeast No. 4, near Walker Road; Southeast No. 5, near Oxon Road - in truck garden , 80

XX. Southeast No. 6, on plateau near Wheeler Road - in truck garden; Southeast No. 7, near Livingston Road - buried in ground to tip 82

XXI. Southeast No. 8, near mouth to Oxon Road - in edge of woods; Southeast No. 9, in Waters of Potomac at Fox's Ferry opposite Alexandria 84

XXII. Portrait of Mr. Lewis J. Davis 244 iv



APPENDIX.

227



OFFICERS.

Officers Elected at the Thirteenth Annual. Meeting Held February 11, 1907.

President Alexander B. Hagner.

17- Vice-Presidents -d •* j. f AlNSWORTH R. SPOFFORD, ' 17- Vice-Presidents -d •* j. < T ^ '

t Job T Barnard. ^

Treasurer William Henry Dennis.

Recording Secretary .Mary Stevens Beall.

Corresponding Secretary Michael I. Weller. Curator James F. Hood. Chronicler William A. Mearns.

1908 i J°HN B' Larner> \Hugh T.-Taggart.

Managers classified ( W. B. Bryan, according to ex- J \ J. Ormond Wilson. piration of term (James Dudley Morgan, of service \ Allen C. Clark.

1911 i Mrs# Chas. W. Richardson, I E. Francis Riggs.

229



COMMITTEES.

On Communications. W. B. Bryan, Chairman, Hugh T. Taggart, W J McGee, M. I. Weller,

James Dudley Morgan.

On Membership. A. B. Hagner, Chairman, A. R. Spofford, M. I. Weller, James F. Hood,

W. B. Bryan.

On Publication. John B. Larner, Chairman, W. B. Bryan, Mary Stevens Beall, J. Henley Smith, J. Dudley Morgan, E. Francis Riggs.

On Building. Job Barnard, Chairman, J. Ormond Wilson, James F. Hood, J. Dudley Morgan, Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall, Mrs. Chas. W. Richardson.

On Exchange. James F. Hood, Chairman, J. Ormond Wilson, A. R. Spofford, Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall.

230



LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE COLUMBIA HISTORI- CAL SOCIETY, MARCH 11, 1907.

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

Baker, John A., Ballinger, Mrs. Madison A., Barber, Mrs. Julia L. L., 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, Bradley, Charles S., Brice, Arthur T., Britton, Alexander, Brown, Chapin, Brown, Glenn, Browne, Aldis B., Bryan, Joseph H., Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart, Bukey, Mrs. Jean Magruder, Bundy, Charles S., Butler, Charles H., Butterfield, John W., •Byington, Miss Marie E.,

1520 K St. 1765 N St. 1531 New Hampshire Ave. 2007 Massachusetts Ave. 1763 P. St.

1819 H St. 1534 28th St. 14th and Clifton Sts. 1306 Rhode Island Ave. 1643 Wisconsin Ave. 1327 Connecticut Ave. The Grafton. "Argyle," Fourteenth St. ext. Colorado Building. 1416 F Sit Corcoran Building. "The Oaks/' 3i01 R St. 1722 N St. 1711 M St. 1419 F St. 323 John Marshall Place. 1925 I St. 1528 P St. 818 Seventeenth St. 1330 Eighteenth St. 1828 S St. Columbian Building. U. S. Supreme Court. 419 Fourth St. 1468 Rhode Island Ave.

231



232 Records of the Columbia Historical Society.

Cammack, John, Carpenter, Frank G., Chilton, Robert S., Jr., Church, Charles B., Clark, Allen C, Clark, Appleton P., Jr., Clephane, Walter C, Conrad, Holmes, Cook, George Wythe, Cook, John, Corning, John Herbert, Cox, William Van Zandt, Coyle, Miss Emily B., Cragin, Charles H., Croffut, W. A., Cull, Judson T., Curry, Miss Cora C, Curtis, William Eleroy,

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

Eaton, George G., Edson, John Joy, Ellicott, Eugene,

Ffoulke, Charles Mather, Fischer, Victor G., Flather, William J., :

-3553 Brightwood Ave. 1318 Vermont Ave. 822 Eighteenth St. 306 Eleventh St., S. W. 605 F St. 1762 Lanier Ave. 1747 Corcoran St. Amer. Ho. Life Ins. Bldg. 3 Thomas Circle. Perpetual Building Asso. 815 Vermont Ave. Brightwood, D. C. 1760 N St. 3127 Dumbarton Ave. 142 B St., N. E. 317 John Marshall Place. 937 K St. 1801 Connecticut Ave.

1331 Eighteenth St. 1624 H St. 1413 G St. 213 C-St, S. E. 2211 R St. 316 A St., S. E. 1319 F St. 416 Fifth St. Georgetown University. 1336 Nineteenth St. City Hall.

1324 South Capitol St. 1324 Sixteenth St. 2205 De Lancey PL, Phila., Pa.

2013 Massachusetts Ave. 2605 Fourteenth St. Riggs Bank.



List of Members. 233

Fletcher, Miss Alice C, Ford, Wothington C, Foster, John Watson, Fraser, Daniel,

Gadsby, Mrs. J. Eakin, Gale, Thomas M., Gait, Sterling, Gerry, Philip T., Gilkey, Miss Malina A., Glover, Charles C, Graham, Andrew B., Granger, John Tileston,

Hagner, Alexander Burton, Hallock, E. S., Harlan, John M., Harries, George H., Harvey, Frederick L., Hearst, Mrs. Phoebe Apperson, Hemphill, John J., Henderson, John B., Jr., Henning, George C, Henry, J. William, Heurich, Christian, Hibbs, William B., Hieston, Walter, Hill, William Corcoran, Hitz, John, Hood, James Franklin, Hopkins, James H., Hornblower, Joseph C, Howard, George H., Hoxie, Mrs. Vinnie Ream, i Hughes, Percy M., :

Hutcheson, David, '. Hyde, Thomas,

214 First St., S. E. Library of Congress. 1323 Eighteenth St. 1626 P St.

3114 R St. 2300 S St. 1861 Mintwood Place. Office Evening Star. 1410 M St. 1703 K St. Graham Building. 1838 Connecticut Ave.

1818 H St. 205 E St. U. S. Supreme Court. Fourteenth & E. Capitol Sts. 622 F St. Pleasanton, Cal. 2108 Bancroft Place. 1720 R. I. Ave. Traders'- National Bank. 1319 F St. 1307 New Hampshire Ave. 1419 F St. 1420 F St. 1724 H St. 1601 Thirty-fifth St. 1017 O St. 1324 Eighteenth St. 2030 Hillyer Place. 1914 N St. Stoneleigh Court. 318 B St., S. E.

Library of Congress. 1537 Twenty-eighth St.




Jackson, Miss Cordelia, Jameson, John F., Janin, Mrs. Violet Blair, Johnson, Jerome Blakeslee, Johnston, James M., Jones, Thomas R.,

Kasson, John Adam, Kern, Charles E., Kibbey, Miss Bessie J., Kingsman, Richard, Knox-Heath, Mrs. Nelly Lloyd,

Kober, George M.,

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

McCarthy, Helena, McGee, W J,

McGill, J. Nota, McGuire, Frederick Bauders, McKee, David R., McKee, Frederick, McKenney, F. D., McLanahan, G. William, McNeir, William, Macfarland, H. B. F.,

3010 0 St. Carnegie Institution. 12 Lafayette Square. 805 H St. 1628 K St. National Safe Deposit Co.

1726 I St. 1328 Harvard St. 2025 Massachusetts Ave. 711 East Capitol St. 147 Highland Ave., Newton-

ville, Mass. 1600 T St.

2209 Massachusetts Ave. 2511 Fourteenth St. 1817 H St. 1335 F St. 1732 Q St. 344 D St. 1100 Twelfth St. The Roland. Cor. Eleventh and F Sts. 1515 Massachusetts Ave. 1335 F St.

915 Fifteenth St. 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. Department of State. District Building.



List of Members, 235

Magruder, G. Lloyd, Magruder, John H., Marshall, James Rush, Mason, Otis Tufton, Matthews, Henry S., Mattingly, William F., May, Frank P., May, George J., May, Henry, Mearns, William A., Meriwether, Colyer, Merritt, William E. H., Mickley, Miss Minnie, Miller, J. Barton, Moore, Frederic Lawrence, Moore, General John, U.S.A., Moore, Mrs. Virginia Campbell, Morgan James Dudley, Morris, Martin F., Morris, Miss Maud Burr, Mosher, Mrs. James, Moss, George W., Mott, Rev. Edward Marshall, Munn, Henry B.,

Neale, S. C, Newcomb, Simon, U.S.N., Newton, Watson J., Norris, James L., ; Noyes, Crosby S., ( Noyes, Theodore Williams, O'Connell, Rt. Rev. D. J., Owen, Frederick D., ! Owen, Owen, Oyster, James F., :

Parker, E. Southard, : Parr is, Albion K., J

4 Jackson Place. 1843 S 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. P. 0. Box 65. 1008 F St. Wash. Loan and Trust Bldg. 1325 Wisconsin Ave. 1680 Thirty-first St. 930 Sixteenth St. 1680 Thirty-first St. 919 Fifteenth St. 1314 Massachusetts Ave. 1603 Nineteenth St. 2000 S St. 1411 G St. 1822 Fourth St. 1334 R St.

1306 F St. 1620 P St. 610 Thirteenth St. 501 F St. Office Evening Star. 1730 New Hampshire Ave. Catholic University. 3 Grant Place. 423 Eleventh St. 1314 Rhode Island Ave.

1738 Connecticut Ave. 3022 P St.




Parsons, Arthur J., Payne, James G., Peacock, Miss Virginia T., Pellew, Henry E., Pelz, Paul J., Pentland, Andrew W., Perry, R. Ross, 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, Robinson, "William P., Rudolph, Cuno H.,

Satterlee, Rt. Rev. Henry Yates, Saul, John A., Shand, Miles M., Shir-Cliffe, William H., Shoemaker, Louis P., Shuey, Theodore F., Simmons, B. Stanley, Simpson, Henry K., Simpson, John Crayke, Sleman, John B., Jr., Sloan, Charles G., Small, John H., Jr., Smith, J. Henley, Smith, Rev. Roland C, Smith, Thomas W.,

1818 N St. 2112 Massachusetts Ave. 2466 Ontario Road. 1637 Massachusetts Ave. 2011 F St. 1330 Eighteenth St. 344 D St. Bureau of Forestry, U. S. De-

partment of Agriculture. Corcoran Building.

1923 N St. 916 F St. 1317 Connecticut Ave. 1308 Vermont Ave. Treasury Department. 1311 Massachusetts Ave. 1607 Twenty-eighth St. 1818 Jefferson Place. 1314 Vermont Ave. The Wyoming. Stoneleigh Court.

1407 Massachusetts Ave.» 344 D St. Department of State. War Department. 920 F St. The Driscoll. Warder Building. 1207 E. Capitol St. 1738 Fifteenth St. The Union Savings Bank. 1407 G St. Cor. Fourteenth and G Sts. 1224 Connecticut Ave. 1325 Sixteenth St. 2334 Columbia Road.



List of Members. 237

Smith, William R., Snow, Alpheus H., Sowers, Z. T., Spear, Ellis, Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, Sturtevant, Charles L., Sullivan, Thomas J., Sunderland, David O., Sylvester, Richard,

Taggart, Hugh T., Taylor, C. Bryson, Thompson, W. B., Tindall, William, Tree, Lambert, Truesdell, George, Tucker, Charles Cowles,

Van Wickle, William P.,

Warner, Brainard Henry, Weller, Michael I., White, Charles E., White, Enoch L., Whitney, Edson L., Willard, Henry A., Willard, Henry K., Williams, Charles P., Williams, W. Mosby, Wilson, Clarence R., Wilson, James Ormond, Wolf, Simon, Woodhull, Maxwell V., Woodward, Fred E., Woodward, S. Walter, Woodward, Thomas P., Wright, W. Lloyd, Wyman, Walter,

Zevely, Douglass,

Supt. Nat. Botanic Garden. 2013 Massachusetts Ave. 1707 Massachusetts Ave. 1003 F St. 1621 Massachusetts Ave. 928 F St. 1530 Ninth St. 618 Twelfth St. Hdqrs. Met. Police.

3249 N St. 1822 Massachusetts Ave. 1419 F St. District Building. 70 La Salle St., Chicago, 111. 1403 F St. Colorado Building.

1225 Pennsylvania Ave.

916 F St. 602 F St. 621 Third St. 1753 Corcoran St. 1232 Roanoke St. 1333 K St. Kellogg Building. 1675 Thirty-first St. 416 Fifth St. Pacific Building. 1439 Massachusetts Ave. 1756 Q St. 2033 G St. Eleventh and F Sts. 2015 Wyoming Ave. 507 E St. 1908 G St. Stoneleigh Court.

1525 O St.



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