Evening star., 1934-03-04

bureau building stands had previously been oc-
supded by one or more small frame residences
and shops for It was here that Samuel W.
Lloyd, father of Mrs. Willis, lived and had
his carpenter shop, and where Mrs. Willis
was born, as stated. map of this square,
known as block 23l, made before the Civil
War; indicates that there were then one
large building on the @ street side, facing
SOUTH and several smaller buildings to the
north, which might have been small dwellings,
or outhouses. There were then % lots In the
block, lot No. l being at the southeast corner
The block upon which the new building stands,
No. 232, shows, prior to 1860, only one build
ing, and that the fine old home Of Mai. Parke
G. Howle, u. S. NJ c., who lived there at
least as early as 1843 1t stood ON the south
west corner Of Fourteenth and streets ana
faced east.
THIS property, quite likely, descended TO the
wife of Maj. Howle, whose mother, Ann
Young, daughter Of Motley Young, married
Peter Casanave. Motley Young was one of
the original proprietors Of land when the city
was laid out, one of his tracts in the Dis
trict of Columbia being known as Duddngton
Pastures. lying in the southwest section. A
description OF this early farm tells us that 1t
"commenced at point the Potomac River
ut the junction of Fifteenth and streets,
thence east by north to the junction of Ninth
and streets, thence east southeast to the
junction of Third and c streets, thence south
east to st. James Greek, thence along the
creek to Greenleaf's Point, thence along the
Potomac River to the place of the beRinning
comprising 800 acres"
Motley Young built mansion on this tract
about l756-shortly after he was married to
his first wife, the daughter Of Nicholas Digges.
It Ion the bank Of the river in what is
now known as G street. between Ninth and
Tenth streets southwest" He was born about
1877 and died in 1902 and was first buried in
the family lot, near the southeast corner Of
square No. 800 between Ninth and Tenth and
G and H streets Later his son-in-law. Robert
Brent first mayor of washington who had
married his daughter Eleanor, had the re-
mains transferred to Carroll Chapel Cemetery,
near Forest Glen, Md, where they repose
today in an unidentified grave. By his first
wife Motley Young had six children who grew
of Daniel Carroll of Marlboro and the sister
of Archbishop John Carroll.
Motley Young died wealthy. and among
items mentioned in his will he left to his
daughter Ann square No. 232 upon which she
built a mansion. After the death Of her huS-
band. Mrs. Casanave gave over the mansion to
her son-in-law, Maj. Parke G. Howle and she
took up her residence in frame dwelling in
the block to the south This, no doubt, is the
dwelling indicated on the map referred to. An
idea of Mr.. Youngs fortune may be gained by
the fact that the census for 1890 shows that
he owned 245 slaves The Howles had at least
one son, named Parke.
The Casanave-H Howle mansion was a stately,
picturesque residence of the Colonial type,
built of light brick the porches and porti-
cos being covered with wistaria and Harri-
sons yellow roses. One Of its last occupants
was John NJ Young, carriage maker C -'7
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