Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-08

| west corner of and 9Th streets. was taken
| by the trustees of Foundry-George Gram
| die. John Council, Richard Thompson.
George Bushby, Jacob Hines and Ulysses
Ward. Familiarity known as the chapel and
| being the scene of a memorable revival in
which Rev. j. Newland Moffftt was the
leading spirit. resulting in hundreds or con-
versions and several other such occasions,
it was not many years before il became one
| of the largest charges of thar denomination
The original church was enc OF the con-
ventiona, chapel buildings Of that day
Alongside Of it on 5th street, IN 1910, part OF
lot IL was asauired by the trustees-W ash
ington Lewis, DIR. Thos. Sewaii. Fnoch
Tucker II. c. Sade, John Scrivener. c. w.
Boteior and Thomas Havener, and Sum
day school room was erected. In the fifties
the present church building was erected,
covering the ground originally acquired,
with that conveyed in 1910.
Brick Yard Ponds.
Though the holdings remained to a large
extent unimprcved for several years prior
to about $780, much Of the ground in the
form of brick had gone into houses else
where, and there were consequently some
brckyard ponds IN the square. NJ. Boyle
was then the largest owner in the square.
Van Ccble. a carpenter and builder, had 10
ca ted on the square, and from to u cents
per foot was the value before the ground
had appreciated to - and 20 cents per foot.
Mr. Boyle buiu blocks of hoises-one at
the southeast corner of the square, and
one at the northwest corner of the square:
and J. s. Clarke, Van Cobie and Philip En-
mis- improved the 6th-Street front. MIR.
BOYLE resided n his 9Th and street block
for some years. His was a leading family
of the neigfhorhood and city. The father
was long chief clerk of the Navy Depart
ment, and his FIVE sons alta med preni-
hence they being Commodore Juaius l.
Boyle, United States navy; j. Franklin
superintendent OF tie construction of the
treasury; Cornelius. q physician, who was
in the medical service of the confederacy;
Bert. United States consul at Port Mahone,-
and Eugene, who distinguished himself in
the Mexican war by winning promotion
from the ranks to captaincy. and who
a victim of ye low fever when home
ward bound. The poetess, Miss Esmeralda
Boyle now of Baltimore, represents the
family in literary circles. In the block
Amos Kendall, Postmaster General. and
John Mason chief clerk, afterward assist
ant postmaster general. resided on F street
for time, as did also DR.. Cornelius Boyle.
and afterward Dr. Johnson Elliott. Charles
De SEEDING ard others.
Mr.. Boyle In 1883 was assessed s. COO on
four three-stcry brick houses at the corner
OF 9th and Z streets and 81 800 on the block
at etl and f streets: j. S. Clarke So SOD and
eco on br,cN houses on 9th street. and
M. LETTERS and Ingie & Lindsey 81 200 each;
south of them and north of Ctlrk's houses
was. an $i.Sc3 house of Mr. Van Coble and
an 81, 100 house of Mr.. Ennis. Mr. Salter
was assessed on 81 $50 on 5th street, and on
the corner lot, E and 9th streets, Lynch's
house had been reduced to $500 valuation
and MI. Flanagan to the same amount
. Eighty years ago or more among the res
ideats of the square not already named I
were Mason Piggott, halter, and later
for, many years constable and police Of /
fcer; Mr. Tarleton, also a halter: John /
Hume. carpenter. and R. Ballard mer |
chant tailor, On 9Th street: Mark Hickey /
and Thomas Camp. brickiayers. On 5th /
street, and James Mccormick on e street.
JAMES CROGGON.