PRESS OF W. F. ROBERTS Co.
WASHINGTON, D. C.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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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

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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