Evening star., 1950-09-10
Old Florida Avenue
Known for 100 Years as Boundary Street,
Many Prominent Families Lived in Area
By John CIoqett Proctor

until 1873, when he moved to 200
A street Sc. after stopping for a
brief while that same year at the
Willard Hotel. During 1877 and
1878 he was practicing law in Chi
cago and when he returned to Con-
gress in 1879 he took up his resi-
dence at 812 Twelfth street NV,
in building probably still stand
ing, where he continued to live
until 1885. when he moved to No.
4 Iowa circle and shortly after
ward he bought the old Stone
homestead, which stood for years
at the northeast corner of Thir-
teenth and Clifton streets, which
he named Calumet place and
where he died on Sunday. Decem-
ber 26. 1886. -.
Washington. we ind, figured
greatly in Senator Logan's life,
for when nominated for the vice
presidency of the United States,
at Chicago, June 6, 1884, not only
was he living here, at 812 Twelfth
street, but James G. Blaine. the
Republican nominee for the, pres
idency, was also residing in this
city, at No. % Lexington place, in
the residence later known as %
Jackson place and occupied by
Theodore Roosevelt during the
remodeling of the White House
in 1902. .---.
The Blaine-Logan and Cleve.
land Hendricks campaign was a
warm one and everything seemed
to favor the Republicans until a
clergyman named Burchard, on
behalf of that political party. tried
his hand at coming phrases and
then it was all off, for one of these
in particular acted as a boomerang
and killed the Republican ticket.
resulting in the election of Grover
Cleveland and Thomas A. Hend-
ricks.
Blaine, the "Plumed Knight"
later served for three years a.
Secretary of State in the admin
istration of Benjamin Harrison
and died in the historic Seward
mansion-site of the Belasco
Theater-January q. 1893.
Logan's Sendoff
Blaine had no military service
to commend him to the Grand
Army, but Logan, of course, was
very popular with the old vet
erans, who regarded him as mill
taristically and politically in
vincible, and when. in July, 1884,
shortly after his nomination. he
left Washington for the Grand
Army encampment at Minne-
apolis. as the guest of the District
delegation, he was given an es-
pecially enthusiastic sendoff.
The local veterans secured the
Marine Band and escorted him to
the Baltimore & Potomac depot.
at Sixth and B streets NV,
where he boarded the train with
Past Department Comdrs. C.
C. Royce, A. H. G. Richardson.
William Gibson and B.. F.
Hawkes.; Delegates Charles King.
H. S. Hunter and L. K. Brown; G.
M. Hustled (still living, National
Council of Administration; De-
partment Comdrs. Woodman Of
Virginia and Henninghausen Of
Maryland; Messrs. Christie.
Stokes, Baxter, Roland and A. r.
Grant.
Logan's reputation as soldier
was not gained exclusively during
the Civil War, for he served in the
War With Mexico as a second
lieutenant, and another thing
about him is that he was not al
ways a Republican. having been
an active Democrat until the
Civil War and a follower Of
Stephen A. Douglas. ..-...
When the war commenced, in
1861, Logan was serving in the
House of Representatives, but i'm
mediately set to work organizing
the 31st Illinois Infantry. Of which
he was commissioned colonel on
September 18 of that year.
/ Prior to this, on July 81, at the
First Battle of Bull Run, he had a
novel experience of fighting in the
ranks as a private soldier in the
costume in which he had been
dining the evening before with q
Union officer of his acquaintance.
Gen. Logan did not survive his
defeat very long, dying December
26. 1886-two years after the
presidential campaign. He was
not i'll very long, and until q day
or two before his death. at Calu-
met place, his condition was not
regarded as serious. and his pass
ing away was generally unlocked
for