Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Charming Young Family
Craces Home of New
District Commissioner
Doughertys, Natives of Bay
State, Have Lived Here
Since Marriage.

The Capital City lacks the dignity
which the presence of a mayor ana
his corporation can lend to civic gath
erings or municipal amenities, but for
some years past the Board of Com
missioners, facetiously called a COM
posite lord mayor, has been accorded
all the courtesy which the big cities
render to their official chief. Mr..
Cuno Rudolph, as chairman of the
board by reason of seniority, figures
as the representative of the city on
all important occasions, and his col
leagues, the newly appointed mem
Der. Mr.. Proctor Lambert Dougherty,
and the Engineer Commissioner, Col.
Franklin Bell, do not fail of attention.
Mr.. Dougherty has been for II
years a resident Of Washington, but
his early days here were studiously
spent, and 1t was not until some years
after his marriage, in 1910, that, be-
coming a householder. he entered
more heartily into it's social as well
as its civil life. Mrs. Dougherty was
Miss Grace Holmes. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George H. Holmes of Cam
bridge. Mass, and the romance be-
gan with the visits of the Commits.
sioner to his old home in that scho-
lastic city. The wedding was cele.
brated in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Holmes on October IL, 1910 Mrs.
Dougherty was educated in the schools
of Cambridge. Commissioner Dough-
erty attended the public schools in
his home city and then matriculated
in the Institute of Technology and
took his degree in 1897. He is the
son of Rev. NJ. A. Dougherty of Cam
bridge, and he and his family are
members of the Unitarian Church.
There are four children, one boy and
three girls, Proctor Lambert, jr., who
is Is, a student of the Mckinley
High School,; Elizabeth, who is at
tending the E. 3. Barnes Public
School, is 8, and Frances H. Dough-
erty.
There is an infant daughter, just
10 months old, and she has been given
the quaint, old.fashioned name of
Faith. Mrs. Dougherty, who becomes
one of the important hostesses Of the
Capital. is of a domestic type, but also
is prominent in the affairs of All
Souls Church, which she and the
Commissioner attend. She is a mem
Der OF the Womans Alliance and of
the Twentieth Century Club, both of
which are activities of this Unitarian
congregation. The Commissioner is
an active member of the Laymen's
League Of All Souls
The new Commissioner presents
many cultured and varied character
istics. He has been for many years
student of botany and is a member
OF the Botanical Club Of this city The
activities OF this body have been for
years mainly directed from the De-
partment Of Agriculture and it's men,
bership includes the most illustrious
naturalists of the city. Having a
scientific knowledge Of plants and
deep love for them, Mr.. Dougherty
will be a stanch friend of the pro.
posed arboretum and Of all the
measures which mean a more beauti-
full and scientifically planned Wash
ington. He has been for some time
one Of the governors Of the University
Club and Of the Washington Society
Of Engineers. Having devoted his
leisure from his professional labors
to civic reform. and social welfare,
the new Commissioner Is a member of
the Rotary Club. Of the Board of
Trade and Of the Chamber OF Com
merce. In all these associations he
has been conspicuous and he comes
into his important Office with perhaps
wider personal knowledge OF more
Of it's citizens and in every walk Of
life than his recent predecessors have
possessed. Mr.. and Mrs. Dotlgherty
are both members Of the Columbia
Country Club and frequently entertain