C13 F 191 .C73 Copy 1 COLUMBIA HISTQRIiCJAt SOCIETY WASHINGTON, D. C- 1894-. GDb^ris, f uhlttatiotts, Of ttff Columbia Iftstortral ^orirtg IS A3 • # • ' • v - • • • • t)to< Qtohtmbra Ijistnrintl Swtetg This Association, founded and incorpo- rated in 1894, nas now completed its eighth year. It has contributed much to public information in its chosen field. At its monthly meetings have been read and dis- cussed more than seventy-five specially pre- pared essays and addresses treating of the City of Washington in many highly inter- esting phases. These papers have been his- torical, biographical, statistical, and descrip- tive, embracing a wide range of information from original sources, and personal reminis- cences. A selection from them has been published in book form, in the series entitled records of the Columbia Historical Society already extending to six volumes. A list of the subjects treated follows. The growing prevalence of the historical spirit in America, and especially in the larger cities, to which Washington belongs, invites a wider extension of the membership of this Society. You are respectfully invited to become a member. The annual dues of members of the (Cnlumbta Iftfltortral g^rirtu, are Five Dollars, with no initiation fee, and it is believed that this value is fully returned to members, in the permanent and interesting publications furnished to them without charge. All citizens interested in the past and present of the Capital City and the District of Columbia, are invited to become mem- bers and to attend the meetings, on the S^rotto iHmtoag rimttttg of ntrb. tttimtlf. P. Pttbitnttuma (ftnlumbta ijtatmiral Swtrty Titles of tKe Papers The titles of the papers in the volumes of the proceedings are as follows: Volume I. President's Inaugural Address. J. M. Toner. Methods and Aims of Historical Inquiry. A. R. Spof- ford. Memorial of James Clark Welling. A. B. Hagner and A. R. Spofford. Unwelcome Visitors to Washington. M. I. Weller and James Ewell. Military and Private Secretaries of George Washington. M. S. Beall. Eighty Years of the Public Schools of Washington. J. O. Wilson. Kate Field ; Memorial. W J McGee. Joseph Meredith Toner ; Memorial. M. F. Morris. Washington in the Forbes Expedition. J. M. Toner. Boundary Monuments of the District of Columbia. Marcus Baker. Records of the Volume 2. L'Enfant's Reports. Early Maps and Surveyors of Washington. John Stewart. L'Enfant's Memorials. L'Enfant and His Personal Affairs. W. B. Bryan. Pierre Charles L'Enfant. J. D. Morgan. Andrew Ellicott. S. K. Alexander. Reminiscences of the Mayors of Washington : Address by James G. Berret. Life and Labors of Peter Force. A. R. Spofford. Robert Brent. J. D. Morgan. Four Mayors of Washington. M. I. Weller. Development of the Nation's Capital. T. A. Lambert. Cabin John Bridge. W. T. S. Curtis. Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia. H. B. Looker. Columbia Historical Society Volume 3. Dolly Madison. J. M. Cutts. Old-time Places and People in Washington. J. T. Rives. Early History of Daguerrotypy in the City of Wash- ington. S. C. Busey. Reminiscences of Washington as Recalled by a De- scendant of the Ingle Family. V. C. Moore. Efforts to Obtain a Code of Laws for the District of Columbia. W. S. Cox. The Removal of the Government to Washington. J. B. Osborne. The District of Columbia's Part in the Early History of the Telegraph. E. L. Morse. Presidential Journey in 1800 From the Old to the New Seat of Government. H. T. Taggart. Orphans' Court and Register of Wills, District of Col- umbia. W. H. Dennis. Local Aspects of Slavery in the District of Columbia. W. C. Clephane. Board of Public Works. F. T. Howe. Homes of the Local Government. W. Tindall. Dr. Thomas Miller and His Times. Virginia Miller. The Centennial of the Permanent Seat of the Govern- ment of the United States. S. C. Busey, M. F. Morris, and A. R. Spofford. Records of the Volume 4. Issues of the District of Columbia Press in 1800-1802. A. P. C. Griffin. The Origin of the Parking System of this City. William Tindall. Some Old Family Letters. J. Henley Smith. Augustus Brevoort Woodward — A Citizen of Two Cities. Charles Moore. The United States Capitol Building as it Appeared in 1800. Glenn Brown. The Defenses of Washington; General Early's Advance on the Capital and the Battle of Fort Stevens, July 11 and 12, 1864. Illustrated. Origin of the Building Regulations. Appleton P. Clark, Jr. The First President's Interest in Washington, as told by himself. John Ball Osborne. The Navy Yard Section during the life of the Rev. William Ryland. Madison Davis. Thomas Law, Washington's First Rich Man. George Alfred Townsend. Columbia Historical Society Volume 5. Old Families and Houses — Greenleaf's Point Section. Mrs. Jeannie Tree Rives. Early Theaters in Washington. A. I. Mudd. Reminiscences of the Early Days of Washington Con- nected with Richard Forrest and His Times, 1795- 1830. Mrs. Kate Kearney Henry. Centennial of the First Inauguration of a President at the Permanent Seat of Government. Samuel Clagett Busey. Equestrian Statuary in Washington. S. H. Kauffmann. Walter Jones and His Times. Miss Fanny Lee Jones. Old Houses on C Street and Those Who Lived There. Douglass Zevely. Early Botanical Activity in the District of Columbia. Frederick V. Coville. Washington as I First Knew It. 1852-55. Byron Sunderland. James Greenleaf. Allen C. Clark. Ninth and F Streets and Thereabouts. Henry E. Davis. History of the Office of Justice of the Peace in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Charles S. Bundy. Life and Times of William Cranch, Judge of the District Circuit Court, 1801-1855. William F. Came. Records of the Volume 6. The Making of a Plan for the City of Washington. Glenn Brown. L' Enfant and the Improvement of the City of Wash- ington. Charles Moore. Recollections of a Washington Newspaper Correspond- ent. Francis A. Richardson. Washington in Literature. Ainsworth R. Spofford. The Beginnings of Government in the District of Col- umbia. W. B. Bryan. Old Residences and Family History in the City Hall Neighborhood. Douglass Zevely. The Bradley Family and the Times in which They Lived. Charles S. Bradley. History of the City Post Office. Madison Davis. Some Account of the History of the Seal of the Society. Elizabeth Bryant Johnston. The Theatres of Washington, 1835-50. A. I. Mudd. Columbia Historical Society Wftunz thttth at tift iEtglitl) Annual iM^ttng Sanitary fi, 1902 President .... JOHN A. KASSON AINSWORTH R. SPOFFORD Vice-Presidents , ALEXANDER B. HAGNER Treasurer . . . WILLIAM A. MEARNS Recording Secretary . MARY STEVENS BEALL Corresponding Secretary . MICHAEL I. WELLER Curator JAMES F. HOOD Chronicles W. B. BRYAN ilanagrrs t ELIZABETH BRYANT JOHNSTON y (TALLMADGE A. LAMBERT Classified rJOHN B. LARNER according T 9°4{ HUGH T TAGGART to expiration LEWIS J. DAVIS of term of 1005.' J service * lj. ORMOND WILSON [906 < W J McGEE MARCUS BAKER Hiat of Mvmbvts of % (Etflitmhta Ifistnriral £>$twty Emmbtr X, 19 112 Mrs. Clare G. Addison Thomas H. Anderson John Taylor Arms J. Walker Babson Frank Baker Marcus Baker John A. Baker Mrs. M. A. Ballinger Job Barnard Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall Charles James Bell Edward F. Bingham Thomas Blagden Henry P. Blair John S. Blair Montgomery Blair Henry F. Blount W. Worthington Bowie Charles S. Bradley Arthur T. Brice Alexander Britton Glenn Brown Aldis B. Browne Joseph H. Bryan Wilhelminus B. Bryan Barry Bulkley Charles S. Bundy Mrs. Marie E. Byington John Cammack Frank G. Carpenter Robert S. Chilton, Jr. Charles W. Clagett Allen C. Clark Appleton P. Clark, Jr. Daniel B. Clarke Walter C. Clephane George Wythe Cook John Herbert Corning William V. Cox Thomas Antisell Cruikshank Judson T. Cull William Eleroy Curtis Edwin C. Cutter James Madison Cutts Richard Graham Davenport H. Bradley Davidson 12 Members of the Walter D. Davidge, Jr. Eldred G. Davis Lewis J. Davis William A. DeCaindry W. Riley Deeble William H. Dennis Louis A. Dent Frederick M. Detweiler William S. Dixon Charles C. Duncanson Robert W. Dutton Andrew B. Duvall George G. Eaton John Joy Edson Eugene Ellicott Abram P. Fardon Charles M. Ffoulke Miss Alice C. Fletcher Robert Fletcher Weston Flint William D. Foulke Daniel Fraser Creed M. Fulton Thomas M. Gale Edward M. Gallaudet Miss Malina A. Gilkey Charles C. Glover J. Holdsworth Gordon William A. Gordon George C. Gorham John Tileston Granger William B. Gurley Alexander Burton Hagner Charles W. Handy Albert Harper George H. Harries Frederick L. Harvey Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst Augustus G. Heaton John J. Hemphill John B. Henderson, Jr. George C. Henning J. William Henry William B. Hibbs D. Percy Hickling Walter Heiston William Corcoran Hill James Franklin Hood Joseph C. Hornblower George H. Howard Robert R. Howison Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie Frank Hume William A. Hungerford Gaillard Hunt David Hutcheson Stiison Hutchins Thomas Hyde Miss Cordelia Jackson Henry L. E. Johnson Miss Elizabeth Bryantjohns- ton James M. Johnston Miss Fannie Lee Jones Columbia Historical Society 13 Thomas R. Jones John Adam Kasson Samuel H. Kauffmann Miss Bessie J. Kibbey Richard Kingsman George M. Kober Tallmadge A. Lambert John S. Larcombe John Bell Larner Noble D. Larner Blair Lee Benjamin F. Leighton Levi Z. Leiter Miss Isobel H. Lenman Henry B. Looker Alvin Mason Lothrop James Lowndes W J McGee Frederick B. McGuire David R. McKee Frederick D. McKenney J. William McKinley G. William McLanahan John E. McLeran Henry B. F. Macfarland Miss S. Somervell Mackall G. Lloyd Magruder John H. Magruder Miss Mary Elizabeth Mann James Rush Marshall Otis Tufton Mason William F. Mattingly William A. Mearns William A. Meloy William E. H. Merritt J. Barton Miller Miss Virginia Miller Charles Moore Frederic Lawrence Moore John Moore Mrs. Virginia C Moore James Dudley Morgan Martin F. Morris Miss Maud B. Morris Mrs. Isabella H. Morrison Mrs. James Mosher George W. Moss Henry B. Munn Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey Simon Newcomb Watson J. Newton James L. Norris Crosby S. Noyes Theodore W. Noyes Thomas C. Noyes James O'Neil John Ball Osborne Frederick D. Owen Owen Owen Aulick Palmer E. Southard Parker John C. Parker Albion K. Parris James G. Payne 14 Members of the Henry E. Pellew Paul J. Pelz Andrew W. Pentland R. Ross Perry James S. Petty Robert A. Phillips Thomas H. Pickford Gifford Pinchot John Caldwell Poor Mrs. Altha Gibbs Powell Francis M. Ramsey Clarence B. Rheem William J. Rhees Mrs. Charles W. Richardson Francis Asbury Richardson E. Francis Riggs David Rittenhouse Mrs. Jeannie Tree Rives James Robbins Cuno H. Rudolph Henry Y. Satterlee John A. Saul William H. Saunders Miles Shand William H. Shir-Cliffe Louis P. Shoemaker Theodore F. Shuey George Simmons Henry K. Simpson John C. Simpson Charles G. Sloan John H. Small, Jr J. Henley Smith Thomas W. Smith William R. Smith Z. T. Sowers Ainsworth Rand Spofford Charles L. Sturtevant David O. Sunderland Geo. W. F. Swartzell Richard Sylvester Hugh T. Taggart Edward H. Thomas William B. Thompson Charles G. Thorn William Tindall George Alfred Townsend George Truesdell William P. Van Wickle Bra in aid H. Warner John Sidney Webb Harris Webster Michael I. Weller Henry Litchfield West Charles E. White John D. Whitney William C. Whittemore John B. Wight Henry A. Willard Charles P. Williams W. Mosby WillLims Albert A. Wilson James Ormond Wilson Jesse B. Wilson Columbia Historical Society 15 Jesse H. Wilson Henry C. Winship Simon Wolf M. Van Zandt Woodhull Frederick E. Woodward S. Walter Woodward Thomas P. Woodward Mrs. Addie Lloyd Wright Walter Wyman Douglass Zevely LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 001 530 635 fi ® PNIAt OF W. r. ROBERTS