Histories

BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1871-1887

BEALE, Edward Fitzgerald 1822-1893
naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher, diplomat

CHURCHILL, Sylvester 1783-1862
Inspector General of the U. S. Army

DOUGLAS, Frederick 1818-1895
American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

DONEGAN, John Dominic
(1858-1934)

DRURY, Ella Elizabeth Donegan
(1893-1972)

GRIMKE, Francis 1852-1937
a Presbyterian minister who was prominent in working for equal rights for African Americans

HENRY, Joseph 1797-1878
First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Richard Wilson HENDERSON, born 28 Aug 1856 in Washington, DC to John & Jane McCully Cumming Henderson
Contributed May 2011 by Ann Chandler

Clara Bell HENDERSON BROOKE, and her twin Nellie HENDERSON SCOTT in the lower right. The others, the date, and the place are unknown. Contributed May 2011 by Ann Chandler

Sept 29 1894 Sisters *3
Left to Right: Ethel Wilson Henderson, Elizabeth Cummings Henderson, Esther Louise Henderson, Clarabel Henderson, Eleanora Henderson.

WIRT, William 1772-1834
Author, statesman, United States Attorney General

Josh and Phebe YODER c1895 Lincoln Park DC; Josh Yoder was the brother of Sam Yoder, Congressman from Ohio. Josh was Cashier of the House in the early 1890s. The Yoders lived at 1225 Euclid St NW from about 1913 until their deaths in the 1930s.
Contributed May 2013 by Paul Sangster

*3 Richard Wilson HENDERSON's daughters with his first wife, Esther Jane Ferguson Henderson. After Esther died, he married her sister, Rosalee, and had two more children, and then Rosalee died and he married Mae Woodin Hoover.
Contributed May 2011 by Ann Chandler

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"My great grandfather, Denis Connell was born in Ireland in 1838. I am unsure of when he arrived in Washigton DC but he co-owned a grocery store (name "Fine Foods"?) and livery stable around the area of North Capitol and H Sts. He owned this with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, John and Thomas Rover. This area was called Swampoodle at the time. I do not have any pictures of the business or of my great grandmother Catherine Rover Connell. These 2 pictures may be relatives.

The first may be my great-grandfather Conell and the second picture may be one of my grandfather's siblings or a McGill. Contact me with any leads." --Carolyn

Military

Armory Square Hospital
7th & Independence Ave SW

Streets

Seventh Street, 1950
where record shops offered listening booths, and the latest hits boomed on to the sidewalk. (The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.)

F Street
Broad awning shade a busy F Street in the late 19th century, seen here looking west toward teh US Treasury Building.

F Street
John Wilkes Booth and others plotted the assassination of President Lincoln in the building seen here at the far left, at that time a hotel called the Herndon House. It once stood on the corner straight ahead. The camera is pointed west down F Street in this 1880s view.

F Street, 1900
All of the tallest of these buildings stood in the 600 block of F Street (site of today's Verizon Center) at the time of Abraham Lincoln.

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