Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05

| though Mr. Peter had an interest. Ii
1897 Gen. Lingan assigned his interests
| 1t was apportioned among the Peter heirs
in 1872. but laid idle for nearly twent.
years after.
In 1929 w. W. Billing owned lot T. on
street. and the year after John P1ckrel
Of Georgetown owned nine lots and X.
Dunlop five lots Mr.. p. ckrell aft rward con
veying to Joseph Libbey of Georgetown
In 1881 w. w. Corcoran owned lot %. or
NJ street. and in 1894 n. Frye owned lo'
on l. street and one on 21St street: r. h
Lord lot 20. on NJ street; James Thomp-
son. '6. on Goth street: S. Redfern, Is. or
| 21st street: William Jewell. 2S or %. or
10Th street; Thomas Corcoran. II on 2lst
street, and W. w. CorCoran 30, on 10th
street.
In 1898 Dr. W. B. Magruder owned on
list street lot 13, and the next year the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank had lots
II and Is. on 21st street, and Mary Will
llams 20, on NJ street.
In the original valuation one cent was
the rate on the ground. but it was below
that for thirty years, when it increased
to the original figure. but no Improve
ments were listed up to 1880.
Between 10Th and 10Th and l. and NJ
streets there was a division into thirty
two lots of square III between the United
States and Gen. Lingan in 1872. but five
years later was redivided into thirty lots
as the ground of Gen. Lingan and Mr..
Peter and title to half the lots vested in
Gen: Lingan. In 1917 lots 10 to %.
on NJ and 10Th streets. were bought by
John Heugh. and W. P. Gardner bought
lots to II on L and 10Th streets
In 1919 George Beall bought lots 10 to
- and the next year H. Simms had lot
81, John McDuel ~ and ~. which soon
after were bought by John Little, the
price being about 3l2 mills per foot. In 1921
Fl. c. and S. Scott had lot %: William
Cole lots 10 to 20. including the corner
of 10Th and NJ streets and Robert
the square on which was one-hundred-
dollar improvement. In 1926 Dorcas Lowell
bought in lot on NJ street. having a
hfty-dollar Improvement; William Brown
lot IL on Goth street and Arthur McIntre
lots to 10 on Goth street.
w. W. COrcoran acquired lots 10 to IS,
including the corner of Goth and NJ streets.
in 1880; W. w. Billing IS and 81 and S.
Redfern lot Ii. Mr.. Jewell had lots II.
Is and Is in 1884 and F. r. Wood bought
to ]. T. McConchie. In 1899 John Boyle
had lots 4 to 10: Grafton Powell lots <
and u, and in 1912 William Linkins had
lot Z.
Values Fluctuate.
By 1890 and 8 cents was the value of
the ground and other improvements than
those mentioned above were listed to Chloe
Llnk1ns. 500 on l. street: George Beall,
The square south, No 81. of twentv-two
lois, fronting X. l.. 18th and Goth streets
was first apportioned in 1871. and again
IN lEb when Gen. Lingan took the west
half of the square. the United States the
east half In 1879 Samuel Smith bought
lots to II. the Lingan portion. and the
next year Solomon Etting had lots II
and 10. In 1902 J. Gray had lots TO 2
and IS to Is. In 1924 Col John Tavloe
bought the west half of the square lots
TO IA. and the next change was in 1S43.
when Samuel Stott bought lots Ii to IS.
the corner of 10Th and l. streets
one cent was the first value but in
thirty years two to three cents per foot
was the taxable basis on the ground.
The we'll known Shorter family of col
ored people. of which Joe Shorter. now
about ninety years of age, survives came
on 10Th street about 1887 Joe is known
TO all the old-timers for having made
Shorter's tonsorial emporium on 9th street
near the avenue famous. Alfred Jones.
colored, about the same year built home
and feed store on X street between DIST
ana I'D streets. Colored families named
Pompey. Tinney and Logan were there
IN the forties, as was Jerry Campbell,
who settled in 1882.
In the forties Mrs BeedIe. a dress
maker. lived on NJ street and other resi-
dents were the Caddes and SewalIs. col
ored families; Henry Gosh. who kept a
dairy, and Joseph Mason dealer in
smoked fish. Thomas Conner i'm the
thlrties built two small houses on ODD
street above l. street. which was the
nucleus of Connaught row. so called from
most of the residents being from that
county of Ireland.
JAMES CPOCcnN