Evening star., 1931-04-26
Old Stcttinius and Grammer Families

trict of Columbia and he should surely know
for his father was one of the most celebrated
and foremost in his generation.
"John Adlum." according to L. H. Bailey
"was the son Of Joseph ana ca herine Adlum
and was born In York Fa.. April 80 1859. Al
the age Of 81 he married his cousin, Miss Mar
garet Album, daughter of John Adlum of Fred
erickstown, Md They had two children, Mar
garet c., afterWard Mrs. Cornelius Barber, o
Washington, D. c., and Anna Maria, afterward
Mrs. H. Dent They lived several years near
Havre de Grace, when Mr. Album moved 70
Montgomery County, Md, where he lived for
a few years. His last change of residence was
to The Vineyard, two miles from Georgetown
d. c., where he died March l. 1886. It was
at The Vineyard that he first began the cul-
tivation Of grapes. He a soldier in the
Revolution, a major in the Provisional Army
during the administration Ct the elder Adams
and afterward brigadier general in the Militia
of Pennsylvania. 1t is said of him that -as @
scientific sgriculturist he had few superiors
He devoted almost the whole of his life to the
acquisition and diffusion of useful information.
In early life he was a great friend of DR.
Joseph Priestly of Northumbe. L Id and the
knowledge he acquired Of chemical science
from that learned philosopher he applied with
signal success to various agricultural opera
TONS His wife died at the residence of their
daughter, Mrs. Barber, July 16, 1852, at the
age of &c.
lust IS years ago this month Mr.. Saul IN
describing Mr.. Adlurn's holdings where hs
had his nurseries and carried on his expert
ments said
He purchased three separate parcels of land
the nrst from John Heugh, called the Addition
to the Rock Of Dunbarton,' the deed of which
was acknowledged December 4, 1916 recorded
February o. 1877, containing As acres: tho
second from Joseph Nourse, acknowledged june
IL, 1919; recorded August 81, 1819 containing
I and
James Dunlop, acknowledged February T. 1920 !
recorded February 8, 1920, consisting two
tracts, one containing 80 acres and one-uuarte
OF an acre, called Part of the Addition to the
Rcck OF Dunbarton,' and the other 80 acres
ana one-quarter and four perches, called
'Gizor Although these deeds refer to one OF
their boundaries as the road leading from
Isaac P1erce's mill to Georgetown was un-
certain as to the exact location of the Adlun
property Upon speaking to Mr.. Francis d
Shoemaker however he said his father MrN
Pierce Shoemaker had often spoken of Mai
Adlum, and directed to the property
which Is the present site of the Bureau OF
Standards. The old Adlum house is near the
southeast corner of the property directly eas
OF the Bureau Of Standards, and therefore al
the southwest corner Of Connecticut avenud
and Pierce Mill road It is at present in "a
state Of decay.
Mai Adum does not appear to have had
general nursery, but seems to have satisfied
himself with growing grapes and making wine
pelng more OF vinyardist or viticulturist Hd
cultivated the vine with marked success"
Mr.. Saul concludes his reference to Adluu
by saying:
1T should also be remembered that Nicholad
Longworth Of Cincinnati, Ohio. who was SC
successful with the Catawba, obtained his frs
cuttings OF the same from Album"
From an early description of the senior Mich.
oIas LongWorth, that gentleman must have been
9ne Luther Burbank Of his day, for his genius
m certain respects was so great that some one
once said: IF Mr.. Longworth was to be sud-
denly thrown neck and heels into the Ohid
River, he would come to the s-,~face with
new variety of fish in each hand"
TYPOGRAPHICAL sketches of this unique mar
are not abundant. One published in 1885,
says, in part:
"Mr. Longworth was born at Newark. N j. il
1888. In early life it is said that he wa
brought up to the trade of a shoemaker III
soon abandoned this and tried his hand at trad
In South Carolina. In 1904 when just 81 I'D
removed to Cincinnati and entered the ofic@
OF Judge Jacob Burnet as law student Ed
pursued his studies about six months and ther
dashed into the practice of his hastily acquired
profession in the rough and irregular way ne
culiar to that primitive period He foresaw al
an early period Of his residence in the West, thu
future greatness of the then Insignificant villagd
of Cincinnati; and though unsustained in hi
opinions by those of his fellow settlers in thu
new community, took advantage of their unI
belief and began a series of systematic invest
ments of everything he could make by his serv
ices as lawyer and land agent in the vel
wooded acres surrounding the original clearing
of Fort Washington and Losantville nd
bought for trif1ing sums whatever was rejected
by everybody else, and thus acquired the title
which his heirs still retain, to some of thu
most valuable portions of the present city and
its immediate suburbs. BY this means he &C
cumulated, in the course of few years slcl
an amount Of property that, in 1919, he gay}
up practicing law that he might devote himself