Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
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During its nearly 100 years Of existence
many thousands of clerks have been employed
in the Pension ONCE in this city including
both men and women whom we might recall
perhaps related to us by ties of blood. To
give all these names would not be possible,
but the writer does feel that many would be
interested in list of the employees Of 1864,
just toward the close Of the Civil War
James H. Barrett was then the comnis-
sioner and William Helmick the chief clerk,
the other employees being Clerks. d. Will
son, L. M. Drury, Darius Forbes, j.. M. Hay,
E. S. Barrett, w E. Gapin, E. S. Dana, H.
TORY, E. A. Parker, N. c. Birch, S. Caldwell,
H. p. Leech, H E. Miner, E. D. Collier, w. H.
Collins, H II. Hamlin, z. Hartman, Henry
Hartung, C. C. Helmick, j. M. D. France,
George B, Whiting j. H. Squier, E. A. Harding,
r. Crawford J. B. John, John G. Eiler, j.
M. Gordon, A. d. Clark, ]. B. Dawson, W. T.
Ford, T. Sargent Treadore, Warren Young, y.
w. Phelps, R. B. Crippen, A. w. Kimmen, r.
H Corwin, A. H. Merriweather, M. S. Bebb,
M. G. Baxter L. Holtztander, M. NJ. Rhorer, e.
N. Houghton, J. r. McCurdy, H. E. Knox,
William Chappell. M. P. Barry, H. c. Peck,
j. S. KidweH, John T. Parson, W. B. Grove,
G. T. Cotton, G. E. Upham, G. A. Van Arden,
N. j. Cox, S. Davis, --) KeSSinger, r. @.
Russell ]. L. Penman, Daniel D. Addison John
c. Winn, J. B. Russell, J. N. Pryor, James q.
Long, w. w. Whfttlesey, 0. B. Barrett, J.
E. Forbush, Robert Wilson, Cyrus Bugh, w. Z.
r. Joseph. r. NJ. Hall, J. d. Woodward. E. H.
Talbot w. r. Morris, A. Cook, John Benton,
w. r. Snider, Daniel Welch j. @ Thompson,
Thomas PieTson, c. p Webster, Charles Hop
kins Kennon Newell, J. p. Tuston, c. S. Butts,
d. G. Wilson, s. C. Hotchkiss, w. H. Cham
pion, G. w. Kellogg, A. B. LIE Merle, H. d.
Swayze, c. Shane, C. M Thompkins, James
Abrams, A. j. Brooks. F. A. Goodenough,
Franklin Price, H. G. Lauck E. L. Kirkland,
w. s. Graft, A. c. Spaulding. L. G. Lovejoy,
s. A. Fitch, j. H. Patrick, D. Blakeslee, J.
C. Williamson, z. Duvall, William Hutchinson,
Frank Moore. A. M. Scott, G. B. NJ. Ringwalt,
J. A. Morgan, George Ewing, J. B. Shaw, II.
c. Fields @. H. Hilton, James w. Somers,
AIonzo johnson, T. j. Barrett, P. H. Berkan,
w. B. Croxton, J. B. warfel, w. H: Coleman,
B. Rixford, Hugh Nicely, F. A. Soule and s.
Davis.
Lady clerks-G. M. Douglass, Margaret
Jones, L. Fleischman, l.. A. Price, A. w. Young,
A. E. SomerS M. Linton, M. @. Mahon, Helen
Clinton, Elizabeth Bowie, A. w. Glass. G. w.
Seaton, c. NJ. Morse, @. L. Ellsworth, @. d.
Carnes, o. NJ Ford and Jane Nisbet.
Messengers. M. Maloney, w. H. Goddard.
A B. Swiggett ard C. A. Hopper.
Laborers-G. r. Ketchum, Charles Syphax,
Paul Jennings, w. r. Clark and Joshua
whitney.
T OoKNG over . list of these employed in
the Pension ONCE in 1897 the writer found
some names that struck him as being rather
familiar. For instance, that of Robert E. Mat
tingiy, the genial Judge of the Municipal Court:
Walter Klopfer, who died not long ago; Will
liam T. Person another soldier and father Of
the popular radio announcer over Station
WMAL, who bears q similar name: Wallace
Streater, who now afHxes major to his name;
DR.. Newton A. Strait. whose widow resides
in st. Cloud, Fla; Charles T. Heinecke my
neighbor, DR.. Heinecke's, father; Maj. Aurestus
S. Perham, whose father was a Governor Of
Maine; another friend Billy" Mehn; Jackson
A. Winner of Brightwood, retired; Elra q.
Palmer, close neighbor and member of the
Oldest Inhabitants, who came here from Ohio
about 40 years ago.
Another resident of Brightwood, DR.. Rowland
H. Ford is the son of William T. Ford, who in
1897 was the senior clerk in time of service
in the Office, having been first appointed mese
Senger on August l. 194S, and who rose to the
position of chief of the record division. For
long while Mr.. Ford was a resident Of South
Washington and built the house at the SOUTH
west corner Of Eleventh street and Virginia
avenue, afterward owned and occupied by Capt.
e. S. Randall.
W. w. Dudley, another clerk, back in 1854
left the service after a years work and went
West made for himself a place in Indiana
politics and returned in 1881 to become the
Commissioned
Another well known man employed there
from 1880 on was Thomas A. Broadus. whose
father was a prominent man of Alexandria
before the Civil War and whose relatives have
filled high places in Southern church and coll
lege history. Ira G. Abbott and Dennis Keax.
ney, clerks in the office in the eighties, were
both brigadier generals in the Civil War and
Mrs La Sale De C. Pickett was the widow OF
the famous Confederate general George T.
Pickett, who made the famous charge at Get-
tvShur0 which haarc HE 1arna AErS C,soh.kA