Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-05
UNCLE SANS FORCE
General Register Begun
Nearly aCentury Ago.
FIRST NUMBER IN 1915
FIVE HUNDRED COPIES OF THE
VOLUME PRINTED.
List Of Government officials and Army
and Navy Officers It
Contained.

states ohcial Register, popularity the Blue
BOOK, now represented by two large vol
umes, Is, as a general register, less than a
century old. Such however, Is the case,
for, although prior to the war of 1912 there
appeared congressional directories, which,
IN addition to the names, residences and
committees Of the Senate and House of
Representatives, contained the names of
the principal officers of the government
possibly one hundred it was not till 1916
that a general register of the executive
ofhcers and employees of the departments
ana OF the army and navy appeared. This
was published in this city, and but 500 cop
les were ordered to be printed-a calf-bound
volume of less than 200 pages, measuring
less than five inches by eight. The lists for
the State, Treasury, War and Navy and
Post Office departments take up one-half
the DOCK, and those Of the post offices the
remainder 1t is entitled IA register of
ofhcers and agents, civil military and naval,
In the service of the United States, on the
3oth day of September, 1916; together with
the names, force and condition of all the
snlps and vessels belonging to the United
States, and when and where built: Pre-
pared at the Department Of State, in pur-
suance or resolution of Congress of the
9th of April, 1916. City of Washington
Printed by Jonathan Elliot. 1916"
is given in full.
Not few of the same family names are
10 De found on the government register to-
day, and numbers who have won high
places in their country's service may recog-
nize the names of their grandfathers on the
rolls Those conversant with the old mu-
nicipal affairs of the District cities will
also find that many department clerks and
many officers of the army and navy then
filled positions in the city councils
The register begins with the name Of
the President, James Madison. at $4,000
per annum, and the roster of the State De-
partment follows, James Monroe. Secre-
tary, and seat of government place Of
employment heading it. There are twelve
names given-John Graham, Stephen Pleas
anton, Daniel Brent, Richard Forrest, John
B. Colvin Josiah w. King and J. H. Pur-
Vance, clerks; John P. Maui and Joseph
Warren, messengers In the department
proper, and DR.. William Thornton. William
Elliot and Benjamin Fenwick, In the patent
office.
The Treasury Department. under Alex.
j. Dallas, had a total of eighty -four names
on Its rolls, ten in the Secretarys office,
seventeen in the controllers Office, eighteen
in the auditors office, twenty-four in the
registers office. seven in the treasurer's
Office, eleven in the revenue bureau and
fourteen in the land office. Among them
were s. Mexican, c. P. Polk. John Wood
side, Lupd Washington, Pontius D. STEELE,
John NJ Lovejoy, John, Coyle, Joseph, Mi
chael, Joseph R. and John R. Nourse Joseph
Stretch, James McCleafy, Rev. DR.. James
Laurie, John D. Barclay, w. B. Randolph.
T. L. Thurston. John Iaub, 8. H: Smith,
John Thaw, Joseph Cassin, Basil Warning.
Josiah Meigs, F: T. Tschiffely, N: B. Van
Zandt, John M. Moore and Joseph Wilson.
War and Navy Departments.
The Secretary of War, w. H Crawford,
had seventy-two employees, including Ma
| thaniel Frye Andrew Ramsey, VIM. Hickey,
| Timothy P. Andrews, r. T. Queen. Robt.
Brent John C. Brent, R. G. Brent, Tobias
Lear Peter Hagner, Charles Eaken w.
Ramsey. Richard Cults, ]. N. Moulder,
| Jonah Seaver, Charles Cruikshank charles
| Vinson and John Sessford-
| The Navy Department then mad a force
of thirty persons, under Secretary B. w.
Crowinshield among them Benz. Homans'
c. w Goldsborough, Thomas H: ellis,
| Clagett, James H. Handy, Joseph Mechi1n'
Alex suter, Enoch M. Lowe, John H. Lowe,
George John and Ezekial Macdaniel
Return j. Meigs was the Postmaster
General and had twenty-five employees;
Abraham Bradley jr., his assistant; Phn-
cas- Bradley, principal clerk; Andrew
Coyle, Thomas B. Dyer. James HeWett'
Tappan Webster, James M. Varnum, Rev.
| o. B. Brown, John Mcleod Alex. Dyer,
| Chauncey Bestor, Andrew Tate, David
Shoemaker, Joseph Burroughs and Nathan
The officers of the Senate were Charles
cutts secretary; Samuel Turner, j. G. Nc
Donald and L. H. Machen, clerks; Mount
| joy BayIy, sergeant-at-arms, ana henry
| l.
sentatives had Thomas Dougherty as chief
clerk: Samuel Burch, John t Frost, Benja-
min Sp.isg, b. N. terry ana IHonac Pat
terson, clerks; Thomas Dunn, sergeant-at-
arms. Thomas Claxton, doorkeeper; Benja-
min Burch assistant doorkeeper. and
James Barron, messenger. George Waiter
| son was the librarian
Richard Bland Lee of Virginia was COM
missioner of claims, with Perrin Willis,
clerk THOMAS L. McKenney superin-
| tendent of Indian trade, with Jere w. Bro
naugh John w. Rich and Meade FltzhuSh,
| clerks The office was located in George
| town. $780,,
Richard Rush was the Attorney General,
| and Elias B. Caldwell clerk Of the Supreme
Court of the United states.
The Judges of the Circuit Court of the
| District we're William Cranch, Buckner
Thurston and James S. Morsell, the first
| named also of the District Court Gen.
| Waiter Jones was the United States attor-
| new. washington Boyd, marshal, and Will
lam Brent, clerk for Washington county,
| and George Deneale for Alexandria county.
James Barnes was 4ss 20 OF
and Charles Simms at Alexandria,; w. A.
| Linton at Dumfries Va, while James e.
Bla e was collector of the direct tax TOT the
| District. James L.. Satheait was eoiisoi
to Cadiz, Spain.
The Roster of Fighters.
The army list gives the names Of thirty
two on the general staff, forty-one in the
|
| medical. twenty-five in the engineer, about
forty in the light artillery. one hun
dred and fifty in the corps of artil-
lery and about forty in each of the
( eight infantry regiments and the rifle regi-
ment Jacob Brown and Andrew Jackson,
! were major generals; Alexander Macomb,
| Edmund P. Gaines, Winfield Scott and E.
W. Ripley, the brigadier generals; Colonel
| general headed the list of general staff, In
which. with others. were Colonel John E:
| Wool, Inspector general; Major G. }.
| Nourse. assistant adjutant general; Majors
John Anderson, Roberdean. John J.
| Albert, James Kearney and Stephen H.
| Long, Typographical engineers; Colonel
| George Gibson, quartermaster general, and
Captain Mark Hardin, assistant quarter
master general. These were all at one time
| residents here, some Of them permanent
OF the ordnance officers headed by Colo
| mel D. Wadsworth. Colonel Bomford was
| well known from his long residence at Kali
Drama, and Captain N. Baden. VIM. Wade
and Lieutenants James Simonson and John