Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-13
Home of Taft
Was Located
On K Street
Notified There of
His Nomination
For President

Gaudens, the celebrated sculptor,
was friend of the Adamses and one
of the few of a small group of
friends privileged to visit their
home, and Mr. Hay declared the
memorial to Mrs. Adams as indie
scribably noble and imposing and a
masterpiece.
1T is full of poetry and sugges-
ton" he said, and infinite wisdom;
a past without beginning and a
future without end; repose, after
limitless experience: a peace TO
which nothing matters-all en-
bodied in this austere and beautiful
face and form
North of the Hay residence, at the
southwest corner of street. is the
Tuckerman-Porter residence, CO.
mated a year or so ago to the LIZ
brary of Congress and the Smith
sonian Institution. On the north
west corner is an imposing looking
old brick house that had as ar early
occupant Justice Horace Gray OF
Massa chusetts, who served as a
member of the United States SUI
preme Court from 1881 until he
died in 1902. He was probably the
largest man ever to sit on the SUI
preme Court bench, having been
about 6 feet inches in height and
weighed in the neighborhood OF 300
pounds. Justice John M. Harlan was
within 2 inches of being as high as
Justice Gray and only about so
pounds lighter Both of these men
were on intimate terms with Chief
Justice Melville w. Fuller. who vas.
if anything, an understood man, and
it was always an interesting sight
to see these two giants Saunterlng
down the avenue with the little
Chief Justice SandWiched in be-
tween them. Following Justice Gray
in this old mansion was John Barton
Payne, who occupied it until few
years ago. He was chairman o. the
American National Red Cross at the
time of his death.
Ran With Mcclellan.
Above Scott Circle, one Of the
most interesting houses on Sixteenth
street, is the one-time home OF
George H. Pendleton of Ohio, one 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 4, 1857, to March
3, 1865. In the autumn of 1864 he
failed of reelection, due probably
to the fact that he was also running
for the Vice Presidency on the
ticket with Gen. George B McClel-
Ian. who received just 81 electoral
votes to Mr. Lincoln's 212.
Mrs. Pendleton was the daughter
of Francis Scott Key, author OF
The Star -Spangled Banner" and
is mentioned among his children by
Francis Scott Key-Smith, descend
ant of the poet-lawyer, who in.
cludes among his ancestors chill
dren 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.
However, The Star, at the time of
Senator Pendleton's death in 1889,
refers to Mrs. PendletOn as "the
adopted daughter of the author of
The Star Spangled Banner" But
this, probably, is mistake.
Just how much of social lioness
Mrs. Pendleton was, the writer can
not say, though the chances are
that she did very little entertaining
in Washington, at least not until
after her husband entered the
United State Senate in 1879, and
then probably only during his serv-
ice in the United States Senate,
from 1882 to 1885, when he resided
in a new home still standing at 1915
Sixteenth street NV.
Miss Alice Key and George H.
Pendleton were married in Balti-
more in 1916 and the chances are
that they lived in Cincinnati from
that date until he first came to
Congress in 1857. In 1860 we find
him living in Carroll Row, now the
site Of the Congressional Library,
where he was boarding. BY 1862
he had moved to 500 Eleventh street
(old numbering), probably another
boarding house. The following year
he was living at 481 Tenth street
(also old numbering). His name ard
residence next appear IN the city
directory for 1881. when he lived at
the northwest corner of Thirteenth
and K streets NV, where is now
gasoline station, and from that
time on he lived on Sixteenth street
just two doors north of Scott Circle.
Being defeated for Congress in
the election that put Cleveland in
the White House, and being a con-
sistent Democrat and a man I'M
doubleday of means, Mr.. Cleveland
appointed Mr.. Pendleton early in
1885 United States Minister to Ger.
many, and here he remained until
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