Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11


President johnson was present at q festival and
entered a shooting contest, when he succeeded
IN carrying of the prize. The guests of tho
association on such occasions have been the
leading citizens of the country. and it has al
ways been the endeavor to show them true
German hospitality. At other times whenever
there has been public appeal made for chari-
table purposes the association has responded
with money and with assistance
7 HE active and passive membership of the
~ washington SchuetZen Veren in 1886
amounted to about five hundred and the board
OF directors then included: Charles Graft
president; J. ]. Appich vice president: r.
SpringSguth secretary: W. E. Muehlhesen,
treasurer; G. j. Seuherle, first shooting master;
John Leopold. second shooting master; John
Angerman and Charles Ebel kings George c.
Walker, marshal; C. Hcurich John L. Vogt,
CHRIS. Rupert. William Hclnlus w. Berens,
Charles Schroth, George C. Walker, Simon
Wolf and G. Hartig.
The presidents of the verein from the begin
ming of the association up to 1885 included the
names of well known Washingtonians.
Charles Kloman w2s the first president; the
second, B. Henze. Then John L. Vogt served
for two years, and he followed by Simon
Wolf, who served for nine Jars and SubSe-
quently became honorary vice president and
member of the board of directors. He
succeeded by William He'mus, Charles Ebel
and Charles Graf i'll order.
As child the writer frequently attended these
schuet2en fests-,egiima ely surreptitiouSly
for his stamping ground was not more than
half mile distant; and though he never tried
to climb a creased pole, yet he did not find 1t
a difficult task to climb the rear fence Of the
Schuetzen Park or find some other means Of
getting in without the customary quarter.
But the Germans liked children, and always
treated the outside kids with kindness, provid-
ing they did not become too much of a nui-
sance. Indeed the writer has become older
and has had the opportunity of studying the
people Of this country of German birth de-
scent he realizes more and more their great
Importance in the making and preserving OF
this great republic. In the Revolutionary period,
Won Steuben will always be remembered as an
indispensable factor in the acquiring of Amer
lean independence, and the best troops of Gen.
Smauwood'S army were the Germans recruited
from Frederick County. Maryland.
At the first Inauguration of Abraham Lin
coin, at q time when there were probably more
SecessioniSts than Unionists in Washington, it
was the 9th Battalion District Of Columbia Vol
unteerS. consisting of three companies under
the command of Maj Arthur BAlbach, who
were called upon to march before. behind and
at the sides Of the Presidents carriage, and
members Of this battalion were also stationed
ShaTpShoOters along the route at strategic posi-
tionS. This battalion was composed entirely Of
the German citizens of Washington and was
organized early in 1861, and no doubt some Of
these and thousands Of others fought through
out the war that followed Under the command
OF Mai Gen Franz Sigcl.
MAYHEM q plaster bust OF a woman was re-
w Gently found in removing buildings in the
area acquitted by the Government the writer
asked: Who Mrs Pendleton?" To
him the name was quite familiar, and yet, for
the time being he could not answer the ques-
ton. However, just day ago. he
across the name of the only Mrs Pendleton
who he thinks would fit in with the story re-
1ating to the bust, and. incidentally, he also
found that this lady met with very tragic
death well within the period Of his recollec-
tions, which probably accounts for her name
being familiar to him, at leaet.
To begin with Mrs Alice Key Pendleton
for such the 1ady's namc-was the wife
of Mr. George H. Pendleton of Ohio of
the few Democrats who served in Congress
during the dark days of the Civil War, his
term in the House at that time covering the
period from March T. 1857 to March 3, 1865.
In the Autumn of 1864 he failed Of reelection,
due probably to the fact that he was also run
ming for the vice presidency on the ticket with
Gen. George B. Mcclellan, who received just
Fl electoral votes to Mr.. Lincoln's PIP
Mrs. Pendleton the daughter of Francis
Scott Key author of The Star Spangled Ban
ner," and is mentioned among his children by
Francis Scott Key-Smith, a descendant of the
poet-lawyer who includes among his ancestors
children the names of Elizabeth Phoebe, Maria
Lloyd Francis Scott, John Ross Ann Arnold,
Edward Lloyd Daniel Murray, Philip Barton,
Ellen Lloyd. Alice and Charles Henry. How
ever, The Star, at the time of Senator Pendle-
tons death in 1889, refers to Mrs. Pendleton as
1.-The adopted daughter of the author of The
Star Spangled Banner"
Just how much of social lioneSS Mrs. Pen
dleton was the writer cannot say. though the
chances that she did very little entertain
ing here, at least until after her husband
tered the United States Senate in 1879, where
from 1882 until he left Congress in 1885 he
resided in a home still standing at 1915
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