IN MEMORIAM-ALEXANDER BURTON HAGNER, JULY 13, 1826 TO JUNE 30, 1915. BY WILHELMUS B. BRYAN. 11 (Read before the Society, January 18, 1916.) For more than a decade and a half, the late Mr. Justice Alexander Burton Hagner was one of the officers of the Columbia Historical Society. He took part in its formation, serving as a member of the Board of Managers. For nine years he was Vice-President and for three years President. It was by no means a perfunctory service. For he was deeply interested in the objects and purposes of the Society in preserving and recording the history of a community of which it could be said, with more than usual accuracy, that he was a part. Here he was born and here, for the most part, he spent the fruitful years of a long and useful life. His father, Peter Hagner, came to the city in 1800 with the government and continued to live here, achieving, although in the pre-civil-service period, the remarkable record of fifty-four years as an officer in the executive departments of the government. In a very real sense, Mr. Justice Hagner had grown up with the town. Added to his rich and varied store of impressions and associations was what he had heard from his father. He was able in the discussions of the topics that came before the Society, to give a touch of reality and humanness to what, of necessity, could be gleaned only from dry records. As a presiding officer, he had the charm as well as the stateliness of a gentleman of the old school. It is not the place here to touchupon the service he rendered during the twenty-four years he sat upon the bench of the Supreme Court of the District, as that has already been well done in the tributes paid to him by his associates of the Bench and of the Bar. But it can be said that his intimate knowledge of the past of the District supplied a necessary background which made possible the able and luminous decision in the Potomac Flats case. It is the desire of the Columbia Historical Society at this time to place on record this testimonial of respect and regard. ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CORCORAN THOM, TREAS URER COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. FROM JANUARY 15, 1915 TO JANUARY 16, 1916. 1915. Receipts. Jan. 15. Balance in Riggs National Bank Amount received from members in pay- $ 344.82 775.00 56.90 $1176.72 Feb. 2. Amt. paid Mary Stevens Beall, acct. salary and postage ... 32.13 Feb. 3. Amt. paid Shoreham Hotel, 3 mos. rent, acct. meetings 45.00 Feb. 3. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. rent 10.00 Feb. 20. Amt. paid Mary Stevens Beall, acct. salary and postage 30.97 Feb. 20. Amt. paid The Courant Print, acct. print ing 2.65 Mch. 2. Mch. 2. Amt. paid Shoreham Hotel, acct. meeting 15.00 rent 10.00 Mch. 17. Amt. paid Mary Stevens Beall, acct. salary and postage 31.17 Mch. 17. Amt. paid W. F. Roberts, acct. cash books, cards, etc. 9.05 Mch. 17. Amt. paid The Courant Print, acct. envelopes and notices 17.65 Mch. 17. Amt. paid Treasurer, refund of postage and services of clerk 10.84 Mch. 22. Amt. paid National Engraving Co., photo map Georgetown 2.00 Apr. 2. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. rent .. 10.00 .... Apr. 2. Amt. paid Shoreham Hotel, acct. meeting 15.00 30.13 Apr. 20. Amt. paid The Courant Print, acct. printing 2.65 May 3. 3. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. May 3. Amt. paid Shoreham Hotel, acct. meeting May 18. Amt. paid Mary Stevens Beall, acct. salary and postage 15.00 31.75 ..... May 18. Amt. paid The Courant Print, acct. sta tionery 9.75 June 4. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. rent 10.00 July 19. Amt. paid John B. Larner, postage for sending out books 22.36 July 27. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. rent... 10.00 Sep. 21. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. rent 2 mos. 20.00 Sep. 21. Amt. paid National Capital Press, acct. printing 482.40 Oct. 5. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. rent ... 10.00 Oct. 5. Amt. paid Chas. E. Hood, insurance on books, maps, etc. 9.19 Nov. 4. Amt. paid Pacific Office Bldg. Co., acct. rent 10.00 Nov. 24. Amt. paid Mary Stevens Beall, acct. post age 15.10 |