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M. Thomas, Dr. Tobias Watkins and Dr. Nicholas Worthington. The 

 church supplied pastors of several denominations, five of whom also 

 held clerical positions in the Government, as follows: Kev. Andrew 

 Bigelow, Rev. Obadiah B. Brown, Rev. John N. Campbell, Rev. Ira 

 Chase, Rev. R. R. Gurley, Rev. Dr. Andrew Hunter, Rev. James 

 Laurie, first president of the Washington Botanical Society, Rev. 

 Robert Little, Unitarian minister and one of the most notable preach- 

 ers of the day in Washington, Rev. William Matthews, founder of 

 St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Rev. Isaac Orr and Rev. Dr. William 

 Staughton, who was the first president of Columbian College. 



Of architects, besides Dr. Thornton, there were B. Henry Latrobe, 

 Charles Bulfinch and George Hadfield, connected with the planning 

 and erection of the Capitol; James Hoban, designer of the White 

 House, and Robert Mills, designer of the Washington Monument. 

 The local press, including writers, publishers and editors, was repre- 

 sented, in addition to the several already mentioned, by Jonathan 

 Elliot, Pishey Thompson and Samuel L. Knapp. Among educators 

 were Benjamin Hallow ell, Prof. William T. Carroll, Rudolph Schaer 

 and George E. Ironsides. Others who were active in the society in- 

 cluded Daniel Carroll of Duddington, banker; Philip Richard Fen- 

 dall, banker, lawyer and editor; Overton Carr, banker and one of the 

 original land owners in the federal district ; Col. Archibald Hender- 

 son and John McClelland, of the Washington Monument Society; 

 John Law, son of Thomas Law, lawyer ; Col. William Tatham, pos- 

 sessor of an important scientific library; John Coyle, jr., secretary of 

 the Howard Society ; Samuel Eliot, jr., vice president of the Wash- 

 ington Botanical Society ; Tobias Lear, who had been Washington's 

 private secretary ; John Stretch, director of the Washington Library 

 Co.; Timothy Winn, one of the incorporators of the Navy Yard 

 Bridge Co.; Joseph Mechlin, Thomas P. Jones, Edmund Law and 

 Benjamin L. Lear. 



The minutes record the election of 122 corresponding members, 

 but some transfers to and from the resident list occurred. There were 

 apparently no rules for the selection of candidates for this class, but 

 the nominees proposed were generally the choice of individual resi- 

 dent members and represented a diversity of callings. The list con- 

 tains the names of 15 Senators, 28 Representatives in Congress, and 

 at least 6 members of presidential cabinets. Among the few promi- 

 nently representative of objects of the Institute were Dr. James Cut- 

 bush, brother of Edward Cutbush; Nathaniel Bowditch, mathe- 

 matician, of Boston; Dr. William Darlington, botanist, of West 

 Chester, Pa.; Jared Sparks, historian, of Cambridge; Col. John 

 Trumbull, historical painter; Prof. Parker Cleaveland, mineralogist, 

 of Bowdoin College; Ferdinand R. Hassler, first superintendent of 

 the U. S. Coast Survey; Peter S. Duponceau, philologist, of Phila- 



