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tanning j. Mason Campbell and son;
Joseph Taney, nephew of the deceased.
and We believe the only male relative
of the name living, and Messrs. Howard
and Perrine, relatives of the deceased;
carriage containing President Lincoln,
carriage containing the Secretary of
State, Postmaster General and Attor-
ney General, carriages containing
other friends of the deceased, followed
by other carriages containing the serv-
ants"
WEST of the Taney house, at 322,
was once the home of Rev.
Horace Stringfellow, rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church from 1910 to 1846,
and next door, at 324, lived Franck
Taylor, who built the house in 1858.
He was native of Lancaster, England,
where he was born in 1911. Shortly
after coming to Washington he be-
came manager of Coale g. Co.'S book
store on the Avenue, little to the
east Of Sixth street, and this he bought
out about 1888, and continued to op-
crate for many years. OF his chill
dren. the writer finds recorded Mrs.
P. B. MCGUIRE, Maj. Daniel Morgan
Taylor, Mrs. Robley D. Evans and
Rear AdmirafH. C. Taylor.
Real Admiral Evans and Rear Ad.
miral Taylor, substantially local men,
reflected undying credit upon their
fame as naval officers in the Battle Of
Santiago, 80 years ago. Robley D.
Evans, or Fighting Bob" as he was
called by some, lived with Mrs. Evans
in the home built by his father in-law,
and it is quite likely that his brother
in-law, Rear Admiral Taylor, was born
there. When standing, it was for
many years pointed out as one of
Washington's historic homes.
Mr.. Zevely informs us that before
Mr.. Taylor built his home on Indiana
avenue there were two 1-story frame
buildings on the lot adjoining his own
which were owned by Robert Beale, an
early resident of Capital Hill. In one
Of these lived Andrew McCalla, and
in the other Samuel L. Phillips, in
1860. The four-story building, for
rnerly at No. $50, was probably the
remodeled McCalla home.
INCLUDING this house, all the build
ings which once stood between the
Taylor home and the Fendell Building
had the appearance of old structures,
and along here once lived Charles S.
Wallach and Mrs Peyton. Gen. Peter
Bacon built No. 1886, and 1913 was the
home of Even L. Childs, and later it
became the office and residence of DR..
w. ]. c. Duhamel, whose Office hours
were: "8 to 10 am, 3 to Z pm"
James F. Duhamel, now the corre-
spending secretary Of the Association
OF Oldest Inhabitants, and w. K,
Duhamel, then practicing law near by.
were Of the doctors family, living at
the same address. Prior to 1864 Rev.
Byron Sunderland, who oficiated at
the marriage Of President and Mrs.
Cleveland, was near neighbor of Mrs.
Childs.
Where stood $40 Indiana avenue,
were once two residences, one mar
rover than the other.
The Fendall Building, which stood
on, the southeast corner of Indiana
avenue and John Marshall place, was
erected in 1885. Prior to It's erec-
ton, Philip Ricard Fendall, who owned
the property from very early date,
lived with his family on this corner
until his death in 1868, and subse-
quently mis- descendants occupied it
at least up to 1880. He was born in
Alexandria in 1894, and was probably
the son Of Philip Richard Cor Ricard)
Fendall Of Alexandria, who on Jan.
uary IL, 1892, sold to Samuel Blodgett,
for a syndicate, 1874 acres Of a tract
Of land in Northwest Washington
known as Jamaica, for 80, $40 Mexican
silver dollars.
7 ATER we find this same Fendall
- organizing In Alexandria in De-
cember, 1892, what is refererd to as
the second bank south Of Philadelphia
oAO GAAC SG OlbC AL NAblllld.
nically, however, since Alexandria at
that time was in the District of Co.
lumbia, this distinction should 60 to
the District.
The junior Fendall, who was born
in Alexandria in 1894, graduated from
Princeton College in 1920, and after
being admitted to the bar in his ma
tive city moved to Washington shortly
afterward and continued until his
death as one Of our most prominent
lawyers. In 1841 President Tyler ap-
pointed him United States district at
torney to succeed Francis Scott Key.
and after being out Of ofiice for a
few years he was again appointed to
that office in 1848.
THE old building on the southwest
corner Of John Marshall place
and Indiana avenue was built as q
Masonic Temple, on ground purchased
By Federal, Columbia, Lebanon and
New jef1iaalem Lodges.