COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Washington, D. C. Records. Vol. I. 1895-97. Contents: Organization and proceedings for 1894-95; Inaugural address by J. M. Toner; The methods and aims of historical inquiry, by A. R. Spofford; Memorial of James Clarke Welling; Unwelcome visitors to Washington, August 24, 1814, by M. I. Weller and James Ewell; The military and private secre taries of George Washington, by Mary S. Beall; Eighty years of the public schools of Washington, 1805 to 1885, by J. Ormond Wilson; In memoriam, Kate Field, 1840-1896; Joseph Meredith Toner, 1825-1896; Washington in the Forbes expedition of 1758, by Joseph Meredith Toner; The boundary monuments of the District of Columbia, by Marcus Baker; List of officers and members with proceedings from Feb. 18, 1895, to Feb. 1, 1897, and index to Vol. I. COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records. Vol. 2. Washington, 1899. Svo, pp. 318. Illustrated. (1264 Contents: Constitution; Communications made to the Society; Proceedings of the Society; The L'Enfant memorials; Something about L'Enfant and his personal affairs, by Wilhelmus B. Bryan; Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the unhonored and unrewarded engineer, by James Dudley Morgan; A sketch of the life of Major Andrew Ellicott, by Sally Kennedy Alexander; Reminiscences of the mayors of Washington, by James G. Berret; The life and labors of Peter Force, mayor of Washington, by Ainsworth R. Spofford; Robert Brent, first mayor of Washington city, by James Dudley Morgan; Four mayors of the city of Washington, by Michael I. Weller: Daniel Rapine, James H. Blake, Benjamin G. Orr, Samuel N. Smallwood; Observations on the development of the nation's capital, by Tallmadge A. Lambert; Cabin John Bridge, by William T. S. Curtis; The office of surveyor of the District of Columbia, by Henry B. Looker; Index. (1265 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records. Vol. 3. Washington, 1900. Svo, pp. 366. Contents: Officers and members; Reports; Necrology; Report on the bibliography of the District of Columbia, by W. B. Bryan; Dolly Madison, by J. Madison Cutts; Old-time places and people in Washington, by Jeannie Tree Rives; Early history of Daguerreotypy in the city of Washington, by Samuel C. Busey Reminiscences of Washington as recalled by a descendant of the Ingle family, by Virginia Campbell Moore; Efforts to obtain a code of laws for the District of Columbia, by Walter S. Cox; The removal of the Government to Washington, by John Ball Osborne; The District of Columbia's part in the early history of the telegraph, by Edward L. Morse; The presidential journey in 1800 from the old to the new seat of government, by H. T. Taggart; Orphan's court and register of wills, by William Henry Tennis; The local aspect of slavery in the District of Columbia, by Walter C. Clephane; The board of public works, by Franklin T. Howe; Homes of the local government, by William Tindall; Dr. Thomas Miller and his times, by Virginia Miller; The centennial of the permanent seat of the government of the United States, by Samuel C. Busey; Discussion as to the date of the establishment of the seat of government at Washington, by M. F. Morris; Report of the Committee of the society upon the removal of the government to Washington, presented by A. R. Spofford; Index. (1266 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records. Vol. 4. Washington, D. C., 1901. 8vo. pp. 248. Illustrated. Contents: Proceedings; Reports: Issues of the District of Columbia press in 1800-'01-'02, by A. P. C. Griffin; The origin of the parking system of this city, by William Tindall; Some old family letters, by J. Henley Smith; Augustus Brevoort Woodward-a citizen of two cities, by Charles Moore; The United States capitol in 1800, by Glenn Brown; The defenses of Washington-General Early's advance on the capital and the battle of Fort Stevens, July 11 and 12, 1864, by William V. Cox: Origin of the building regulations, by Appleton P. Clark, Jr.; The first president's interest in Washington as told by himself, by John Ball Osborne; The navy-yard section during the life of the Rev. William Ryland, by Madison Davis; Thomas Law, Washington's first rich man, by George Alfred Townsend; Index. (1267 H. Doc. 923, 59-1, vol 2-12 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records. Vol. 5. Washington, D. C., 1902. Svo, pp. 329. Illustrated. Contents: Proceedings; Reports; Memorandum of sympathy and sorrow on the death of Queen Victoria; In memoriam-Dr. Samuel Clagett Busey; Old families and houses-Greenleaf's Point, by Jeannie Tree Rives; Early theatres in Washington city, by A. I. Mudd; Richard Forrest and his times, 1795-1830, by Kate Kearney Henry; The centennial of the first inauguration of a president at the permanent seat of government, by Samuel Clagett Busey: Remarks of John B. Gordon, embracing a communication from Judge James II. Embry in the Senate, March 3, 1897, on the centennial of the retirement of President Washington from public life and the congress of that era; Equestrian statuary in Washington, by S. II. Kauffman; Walter Jones and his times, by Fanny Lee Jones; Old houses on C street and those who lived there, by Douglass Zevely; Early botanical activity in the District of Columbia, by Frederick V. Coville; Washington as I first knew it, 1825-1855, by Byron Sunderland; James Greenleaf, by Allen C. Clark; Ninth and F streets and thereabout, by Henry E. Davis; A history of the office of justice of the peace in the District of Columbia, by Charles S. Bundy; Life and times of William Cranch, judge of the District circuit court, 1801-1855, by William F. Carne; Index. (1268 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records. Vol. 6. Washington, D. C., 1903. Svo, pp. 296. Illustrated. Contents: The making of a plan for Washington city, by Glenn Brown; The making of a plan for the city of Washington, by Charles Moore; Recollections of a Washington newspaper correspondent, by Francis A. Richardson; Washington in literature, by Ainsworth R. Spofford; The beginnings of government in the District, by W. B. Bryan; Remarks of James Dudley Morgan, M. D., before the society, March 10, 1902, in exhibiting a unique picture of Duddington, the residence of Daniel Carroll: Remarks of John B. Larner, when exhibiting an old photograph of the southeast corner of 14th & F streets; Old residences and family history of the city hall neighborhood, by Douglass Zevely; The Bradley family and the times in which they lived, by Charles S. Bradley; A history of the city post-office, by Madison Davis; The seal of the Columbia Historical Society, by Elizabeth Bryant Johnston; The theatres of Washington, from 1835 to 1850, by Aloysius Mudd; Officers; Members; Reports; Index. COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records, Vol. 7. Washington, D. C., 1904. 8vo, pp. 290. Illustrated. (1269 Contents: Historic Fort Washington on the Potomac, by James Dudley Morgan; Early history of the Washington Library Company and other local libraries, by W. Dawson Johnston; John Barnes, a forgotten philanthropist of Georgetown, by Cordelia Jackson; The life and times of Pontius D. Stelle, by Maud Burr Morris; Washington's houses on Capitol Hill, by Henry B. Looker; Hotels of Washington prior to 1814, by W. B. Bryan; Why the city went westward; L'Enfant's idea as to how the Capitol building should face, by J. Dudley Morgan; The plan of the city and its expected growth, by Glenn Brown; Development of the eastern section and the policy of the landowners, by Allea C. Clark; The central section of the city, by W. B. Bryan; Old residences and family history in the City Hall neighborhood, by Douglass Zevely; The first master of ceremonies of the White House, by John H. McCormick; Houses of bricks imported from England, by George Alfred Townsend; The lyric element in American history, by Ainsworth R. Spofford; Street nomenclature of Washington city, by Alexander B. Hagner; List of officers, committees, and members; Proceedings of the society, 1903; Principal local events of the year 1903; Index. (1270 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records. Vol. 8. Washington, 1905. 8vo, pp. iv, 209. Illustrated. Contents: The financial institutions of Washington city in its early days, by Charles E. Howe; The beginnings of the Presbyterian church in the District of Columbia, by W. B. Bryan; Early Methodism in the District of Columbia, by W. M. Ferguson; Jefferson and the newspapers, by Worthington Chauncey Ford. Reprints: Observations on the River Potomack, the country adjacent, and the city of Washington, New York, 1793, by Tobias Lear; Enquiries into the necessity or expediency of assuming exclusive legislation over the District of Columbla (anonymous, probable date of publication, 1800); Prefatory note; Some data concerning Thomas Law and the Washington Canal Company; Observations (1271 on the intended canal in Washington city, 1804, by Thomas Law. Appendix: Officers; Committees: List of members; Communications made to the Society during 1904; Proceedings; In memoriam Marcus Baker: Minute, by W. B. Bryan Tribute to Marcus Baker, by W J McGee: Tribute to Marcus Baker, by John Joy Edson; Annual reports; Principal local events during 1904; Necrology Index. COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. a list of books, maps, and other publications to 1898. by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan. Svo, 3 p. 1., pp. 211. Bibliography of the District of Columbia, being newspapers, including articles in magazines and Prepared for the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, 1900. (1272 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. A history of the Washington city post-office. From 1795-1903. By Madison Davis. Lancaster, Pa. [1903]. Svo, pp. 80. pl., port., plan. Paper read before the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D. C., May 12, 1902. (1273 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Objects, Publications, Officers, and Members of the Columbia Historical Society, 1903. 16mo, pp. 15. COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Historic Fort Washington. (1274 Read before the Columbia Historical Society. [By] James Dudley Morgan. Washington, D. C., 1904. 8vo, cover-title, pp. 19. pl., 2 port., 2 maps, facsim. "Reprinted from the records of the Columbia Historical Society." (1275 COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Houses of bricks imported from England. By George Alfred Townsend. (Read before the Society November 9, 1903.) [Washington, D. C., 1904.] Svo, pp. 195–210. Caption title. Reprinted from the Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. VII, (1276 1904. DEUTSCHE HISTORISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR DEN DISTRICT COLUMBIA. Washington, D. C. DEUTSCHE HISTORISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR DEN DISTRICT COLUMBIA. Berichte. 1. Jahrgang. 1. Heft. 1. Geschäftliches. 2. Die ersten Deutschen im nachmaligen District Columbia. Von Dr. Christian Strack. Washington, D. C., 1905. Svo, pp. 55. (1277 DEUTSCHE HISTORISCHE GESELLSCHAF. Die ersten Deutsche im nachmaligen District Columbia. Von Dr. Christian Strack. I. Teil. Sonderabdruck aus den Berichten der Deutschen Historischen Gesellschaft für den District Columbia. 1. Jahrgang. 1. Heft. Washington, D. C., 1905. 8vo. pp. 19-55. (1278 SOCIETY OF THE OLDEST INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. OLDEST INHABITANTS' ASSOCIATION. An address on the life and character of John Carroll Brent, delivered by John B. Blake before the Society, April 5, 1876. Washington, 1876. Svo, pp. 12. (1279 OLDEST INHABITANTS ASSOCIATION. Washington sixty years ago. Paper by Lambert Tree, read before the Association, 7th April, 1880. [Philadelphia, 1880.] 8vo, pp. 6. Title on cover. (1280 SOUTHERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION. Washington, D. C. Publications. Vol. I. SOUTHERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION. 1897. Svo, pp. 390. Washington, D. C., Contents: Historical sketch of the association; On the promotion of historical studies in the south, by Stephen B. Weeks; The planter of the old south, by Richard Malcolm Johnston; Two southern magazines, by Edward Ingle; Colonel David Crockett, of Tennessee, by Marcus J. Wright; Bibliography of the statute law of the southern states-Parts 1-111-by Theodore Lee Cole; John Owen's journal of his removal from Virginia to Alabama in 1818; Extracts from Bishop Spangenberg's journal of travels in North Carolina; Bryant Lester, of Lunenberg co., Va.. and his descendants, by Thomas McAdory Owen; John Brown's raid, by Andrew Hunter; A bibliography of John Brown, by Thomas Featherstonhaugh; Thomas Lamar, of the province of Maryland, and a part of his descendants, by William Harmong Lamar; Huck's defeat, or the battle of Williamson's plantation, S. C., July 12, 1780, by Marcus J. Wright: A question of fact-Thomas Pinckney vs. J. B. McMaster, by C. C. Pinckney; Journal of the siege of Savannah in 1779, by Gen. Prévost, commanding the town; A bibliography of William Gilmore Simms, by A. S. Salley, Jr.; Book notes; Notes and queries; Index. (1281 SOUTHERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION. 1898. Svo, pp. 390. Publications. Vol. II. Washington, D. C., Contents: Report of second annual meeting, by Colyer Meriwether; Unpublished letters of Andrew Jackson, 1793-1820; Some account of the transfer of the territory of Louisiana from France to the United States, by Marcus J. Wright; The society of the Cincinnati in the southern states, by Charles L Davis; The dismemberment of Virginia, by William Baird; Anti-slavery sentiment in the south, with unpublished letters from John Stuart Mill and Mrs. Stowe, by Stephen B. Weeks; Journal of a voyage to Charlestown, in So. Carolina, by Pelatiah Webster in 1765, edited by T. P. Harrison; William Strother, of Virginia, and his descendants, by Thomas McAdory Owen; Richard Winn, by J. L. M. Curry; Maryland's greatest politician-Cecilius Calvert's career as an index to the history of the Palatinate, by Edward Ingle; Christopher Gadsden, by E. 1. Renick; Virginia women and the civil war, by B. W. Arnold; Early southern institutions, by Peter J. Hamilton; DocumentCommission of Button Gwinett as president and commander in chief of the state of Georgia; Literary estimate and bibliography of Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Stephen B. Weeks; Sir Richard Everard, baronet, governor of the colony of North Carolina, 1725-1731, and his descendants in Virginia, by Marshall De Lancey Haywood; Mount Vernon, Alabama, by T. II. Ball; Monroe's poverty. by Thomas M. Owen; Social affairs in 1760-letter from Sally Fouke, February 26, 1760; Book notes; Notes and queries; Index. (1282 Contents: The mound-builders of central Florida, by Thomas Featherstonhaugh; Edward Moseley, a North Carolina colonial patriot and statesman, by James Franklin Shinn; Jacob Ammonet, of Virginia, and a part of his descendants, by Clifton Wood Bransford; Some difficulties of a Texas empresario, by Lester G. Bugbee; The Texan expedition against Mier, 1842: Petition of Gen. Thos. J. Green; The personnel of the North Carolina convention of 1788, by J. B. Cheshire, Jr.; A confederate incident, by J. L. M. Curry: Documents (giving insight into the trials and difficulties under which our patriot forefathers labored); Report of the third annual meeting of the association, by Colyer Meriwether; Sidney Lanier, his life and writings by George S. Wills; Nullification resolutions of 1828, submitted by A. S. Salley, Jr.; The Renick family of Virginia, by E. I. Renick; Henry Timrod: Literary estimate and bibliography, by Henry E. Shepherd and A. S. Salley, Jr.; John Brown's men: The lives of those killed at Harper's Ferry, with a supplementary bibliography of John Brown, by Thomas Featherstonhaugh; History of the Salisbury, N. C., confederate prison, by A. W. Mangum; Book notes; Notes and queries; Index. Contents: Washington and the Constitution, by J. L. M. Curry; Andrew R. Govan, by A. S. Salley, Jr.; The Revolutionary war in North Carolina, by John Hodges Drake; Why the Confederacy had no supreme court, by Bradley T. Johnson; John V. Wright; J. A. Orr; L. Q. Washington; The Texas frontier, 1820-1825, by Lester G. Bugbee; Documents; A Baptist appeal: From the pastor of the First Baptist Church" in Alexandria to President Lincoln; Report of the fourth annual meeting of the association; The purchase of Louisiana and how it was brought about, by Daniel R. Goodloe; The journal of Thomas Nicholson, 1746-1771; Anecdotes of General Winfield Scott; Congressman Stoke's plan for investigation of public archives; The Southern planter of the fifties, by Louisa Preston Looney; Letter from a revolutionary officer, Philip Slaughter, January 5, 1847; A brief outline of Governor Richard Bennett, by I. T. Tichenor; Light on the negro problem-a review; Lee and the confederacy, by Peter J. Hamilton; The battle of King's mountain, written by William Martin, in 1843, from accounts of eyewitnesses; The society of the Cincinnati in Virginia, by John Cropper; Some colonial ancestors of Johns Hopkins, by Miles White, Jr.; Southern frontier life in revolutionary days-narrative of William Martin, from the Draper MS. collections in the Wisconsin State historical society library; Notes on John Wright Stanly, of Newbern, No. Carolina, by John D. Whitford; The Highlanders in America; Index. (1284 SOUTHERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION. 1901. Svo, pp. 565. Publications. Vol. V. Washington, D. C., Contents: The history of the confederate treasury, by Ernest A. Smith; The South in the olden time, by J. M. L. Curry; Edward Ireland Renick, by Gaillard Hunt; The report of the fifth annual meeting of the Society, by Colyer Meriwether; A sketch of William Vans Murray, by Clement Sulivane; The Calhoun letters-a review, by J. L. M. Curry; A sketch of the life of General John Peter Muhlenberg, by Marcus J. Wright; Introduction to the genealogy of the descendants of Judge Paul Carrington and his wife Priscilla (née) Sims, by J. B. Killebrew; William Lyne Wilson, by William H. Wilson; President Davis's last official meeting, by Mrs. M. E. Robertson; The Kinsey family-supplementary data on the ancestors of Johns Hopkins; On the history of slavery; John A. Broadus- a review, by J. L. M. Curry: Was Texas included in the Louisiana purchase, by John R. Ficklen; Map published, 1762; Henry Baker and some of his descendants, by Miles White, jr.; The lost colony of Roanoke; The organization of the Texas revolution, by Eugene C. Barker; An example-Canada's work for history; Herbert Baxter Adams (1850–1901): His work for southern history; The struggle of the confederacy, by J. L. M. Curry; Book reviews; Notes and queries; Index. (1285 Vol. VI. Washington, D. C., Contents: The Virginia literary museum, by John Walter Wayland; William Lyne Wilson-two tributes, by Hilary A. Herbert and Oscar S. Straus; Discovery of Lake Suppernong (Phelps), North Carolina, with notes by George P. Collins; Letters from Joseph Martin to Patrick Henry, July, 1789-Jan., 1790; Documents on the Texas revolution; The American negro: an answer, by W. II. Councill: Report of the sixth annual meeting, by Colyer Meriwether; Journal of Charles Porterfield, from March 3, 1776, to July 23, 1776, while a prisoner of war in Quebec; Southern political views, 1865-John II. Reagan's letter to President Johnson; A bibliography of the women writers of South Carolina, by A. S. Salley, jr.; The bi-centenary of the French settlement of the southwestHamilton; An early decision on imperialism, by David Y. Thomas; Early Quaker records in Virginia, 1763; William Murrell, an old-time merchant in South Carolina, by Kate Furman; The Spaniards in the south and south west, by Stephen B. Weeks; Diary of a march from El Paso to San Antonio, 1849; An account of the organization and operations of the post-office department of the Confederate |