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PRESS OF W. F. ROBERTS Co. WASHINGTON, D. C.
Exchange
F191 C7 V125
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
Joseph Lancaster and the Lancasterian Schools in the
District of Columbia, with Incidental School
Notes. John Clagett Proctor.......
Early Movements for a National Observatory-1802-
1842. Dr. Charles O. Paullin.............................
History of the Washington Humane Society. John P.
Heap.
Tudor Place. Cordelia Jackson.........
1
36
57
.... 68
87
John Thomas Towers-Mayor and Printer. Allen C.
Clark.
William A. Bradley, Eleventh Mayor of the Corpora-
tion of Washington. Maud Burr Morris.............105
The Safe Burglary Case. An Episode and a Factor
in the District's Development. Henry E. Davis.....140
Aboriginal Occupancy of the District of Columbia.
S. V. Proudfit........
.182
Daniel Rapine, Second Mayor of the Corporation of
Washington. Allen C. Clark........ ............194
Correspondence. Monument of Alexander Hamilton
(Bryan) Old Down-Town Churches. (Topham)
Operations of the British Squadron on the Po-
tomac River.
(Tindall).....
.216
Titles of Papers and Illustrations, Records Columbia
Historical Society, Vols. 1 to 25, Incl., and Pro-
ceedings 1894-5, compiled by John B. Larner........257
Index
...........
ILLUSTRATIONS.
..279
PLATE NO.
1. 3126 "O" Street,
FACING PAGE
Home of First Lancasterian
School in the District of Columbia, Corner-
stone Laid in June, 1811. (From a Photo-
graph Made for the Society in 1923)............ 6
2. Tudor Place (From a Photograph Made in 1900) 68
3.
Mrs. Beverly Kennon nee Britannia Wellington
Peter. (From a Photograph Made in the
Sixties)
4. Major George Peter........
72
74
76
6. Tudor Place-South View Showing Sago Palm..... 86
7. John T. Towers, Mayor Corporation of Washing-
ton, 1854-6 ....
88
8. Dedication Ceremonies of Statue of Alexander Hamilton-President Harding Delivering Address. (From Photograph Made by Harris & Ewing). .............216
9
Rev. Andrew I. McCormick. (See Sketch, Vol. 24, Page 196)..
.........220