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Objects, Publications, Officers and Members of the Columbia C13 F 191 .C73 Copy 1 COLUMBIA HISTQRIiCJAt SOCIETY WASHINGTON, D. C- 1894-. GDb^ris, fuhlttatiotts, 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 T according 9°4{ HUGH T TAGGART to expiration LEWIS J.J DAVIS of term of 1005.' service * lj. ORMOND WILSON W J McGEE [906 < MARCUS BAKER Hiat of Mvmbvts of % (Etflitmhta Ifistnriral £>$twty Emmbtr X, 19 112 Mrs. Clare G. Addison Joseph H. Bryan Thomas H. Anderson Wilhelminus B. Bryan John Taylor Arms Barry Bulkley J. Walker Babson Charles S. Bundy Frank Baker Mrs. Marie E. Byington Marcus Baker John Cammack John A. Baker Frank G. Carpenter Mrs. M. A. Ballinger Robert S. Chilton, Jr. Job Barnard Charles W. Clagett Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall Allen C. Clark Charles James Bell Appleton P. Clark, Jr. Edward F. Bingham Daniel B. Clarke Thomas Blagden Walter C. Clephane Henry P. Blair George Wythe Cook John S. Blair John Herbert Corning Montgomery Blair William V. Cox Henry F. Blount Thomas Antisell Cruikshank W. Worthington Bowie Judson T. Cull Charles S. Bradley William Eleroy Curtis Arthur T. Brice Edwin C. Cutter Alexander Britton James Madison Cutts Glenn Brown Richard Graham Davenport Aldis B. Browne H. Bradley Davidson 12 Members of the Walter D. Davidge, Jr. Alexander Burton Hagner Eldred G. Davis Charles W. Handy Lewis J. Davis Albert Harper William A. DeCaindry George H. Harries W. Riley Deeble Frederick L. Harvey William H. Dennis Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst Louis A. Dent Augustus G. Heaton Frederick M. Detweiler John J. Hemphill William S. Dixon John B. Henderson, Jr. Charles C. Duncanson George C. Henning Robert W. Dutton J. William Henry Andrew B. Duvall William B. Hibbs George G. Eaton D. Percy Hickling John Joy Edson Walter Heiston Eugene Ellicott William Corcoran Hill Abram P. Fardon James Franklin Hood Charles M. Ffoulke Joseph C. Hornblower Miss Alice C. Fletcher George H. Howard Robert Fletcher Robert R. Howison Weston Flint Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie William D. Foulke Frank Hume Daniel Fraser William A. Hungerford Creed M. Fulton Gaillard Hunt Thomas M. Gale David Hutcheson Edward M. Gallaudet Stiison Hutchins Miss Malina A. Gilkey Thomas Hyde Charles C. Glover Miss Cordelia Jackson J. Holdsworth Gordon Henry L. E. Johnson William A. Gordon Miss Elizabeth Bryantjohns- George C. Gorham ton John Tileston Granger James M. Johnston William B. Gurley Miss Fannie Lee Jones Columbia Historical Society 13 Thomas R. Jones William A. Mearns John Adam Kasson William A. Meloy Samuel H. Kauffmann William E. H. Merritt Miss Bessie J. Kibbey J. Barton Miller Richard Kingsman Miss Virginia Miller George M. Kober Charles Moore Tallmadge A. Lambert Frederic Lawrence Moore John S. Larcombe John Moore John Bell Larner Mrs. Virginia C Moore Noble D. Larner James Dudley Morgan Blair Lee Martin F. Morris Benjamin F. Leighton Miss Maud B. Morris Levi Z. Leiter Mrs. Isabella H. Morrison Miss Isobel H. Lenman Mrs. James Mosher Henry B. Looker George W. Moss Alvin Mason Lothrop Henry B. Munn James Lowndes Mrs. Ellen S. 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