Evening star., 1927-06-02


things ancestral. the Association o
Oldest Inhabitants delved into the bi
ography of Charles A. Lindbergh
father of the world-lauded New York
Paris flyer, at its June meeting. he'll
last night in the old engine house
Nineteenth and II streets.
From a paper read by John Claget
Proctor, vice president of the asso
citation. the members at the meeting
learned, with other facts Of his per
sonal history, that the elder Lindbergl
lived at various addresses in Washing
ton from 1907 until 1917, while he wai
a member of the SiXtieth to the Sixty
fourth Congresses as a Representative
from Minnesota. That period. MI
Proctor pointed out, included par
of the flying Capt. Lindbergh's school
ing years. and so the aviator ATTENDED
two Washington schools-F'riends ant
the Eastern High School.
| Preceding the reading of Mr.. Proc
tors paper, the association voted ia
vorably upon five applications fol
membership. and the names of Charles
Henry Bates, Charles Ernest Colli
! flower, George G. Jordan, Walter I'll
| Wills and John Meilllejohn were added
| to the roll.
Reminding his fellow members OF
| the association that Capt. Lindbergh
| is preparing to return to the United
| States, where crowds are handled
much better, apparently, than they
are in Europe" Mr.. Proctor sketched
briefly the life of the flyers father.
Father Born in Sweden.
| Charles A. Lindbergh. father OF
| our celebrated ocean flyer. was born
| in Sweden in 1889" he read from his
| I,;c
| ents to the United States in 1860
| From the date of their landing in this
| country until 1881 the grandparents
of the aviator lived on a farm near
| Melrose, Mimi, and here their son
| Charles. the elder, was brought up.
| School advantages at Melrose at that
date were so limited that the educa'
tion of the father of the worlds great
| est flyer was necessarily neglected
and much of his boyhood life was
given to hunting and trapping. How
| ever, as proof of the fact that it is
| hard to keep a good man down, he
| gave practically all of his time from
| 1881 to 1885 to study, attending Grove
| Lake Academy. in Stearns County,
| Mimi. and Ann Arbor Law School,
Michigan. taking some literary studies
at the same time, graduating from the
| III" uSIJdI lilIclL III 1905 Lac AdtcI
practiced law in his home State, and
| was thus engaged when he was elect.
ed to the Sixtieth Congress, and it
was this honor that first brought him
to Washington in 1907.
He remained in Congress until
1917, when he retired to run for Gov.
ernor of Minnesota, dying during the
campaign. his successor from the
sixth Minnesota district being Harold
knutson.
when Representative Lindbergh
first came to Congress he permitted a
sketch of himself to be published in
the Congressional Directory. but after
December of that year this was omit.
ted, as was likewise, for much of, the
time, his local address. For this rea.
son, he seems to have been a poor ad
vertiser and besides was apparently
very ,seclusive.
First Lived on V Street.
"In 1907, when he first came tc
Washington, we find him residing al
1881 V street northwest. For some
unknown reason this place did not
| seem to suit his fancy, and in the fol
| lowing year he had moved to. l72f
| Willard street.
For his whereabouts after 1908, the
City Directory must be depended upon
| and this gives his 1910 address as the
Congress Hall Hotel, located at New
Jersey avenue and c street southeast
Perhaps you recall that on the site OF
this hotel formerly stood several
buildings owned by Thomas Law, the
corner one Of which was his residence
Mr.. Law had married Elizabeth Parke
Custis, granddaughter of Martha
Washington, and it was to their home
that the first President paid visits
when in this city.
'The Laws did not get along in per.
feet harmony, and ere long the prop
erty was leased to Conrad & McMunn
for hotel purposes, and it was here
that Thomas Jefferson resided while
Vice President and from here also
| that he marched with an escort to the
Capitol TO be sworn in as President in
| 1901. when some folks say he rode
up the Avenue unaccompanied and
hftched his horse to paling fence and
returned to the White House after the
ceremony, in the same democratic
fashion; but, of course, this is an ole
fable.
The next place we find Representa-
tive Lindbergh is at the Hotel Driscoll
First and B streets northwest, where
| he stopped in 1914. The directories dc
not give his address for 1915 and 1915
but during his last year in Washing
ton he stopped at the Continental Ho
tel, corner of North Capitol and E
streets.
Reserve Inherited.
young Lindbergh's reserve is un
doubtedly inherited from his father
| for of his service in Congress little is
known. Indeed, had it not been fol-
| the fame recently achieved by the son
| the fact, even at this early date, that
he once served in the Nations lower
| legislature would have been confined
to his family and a few limited
| friends.
Like all members Of Congress. he
| had his committee assignments and