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Cunningb2
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Capital
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Pennsylvania Avenue
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February 25, 2021
This happened on MM White same block infront of Capital building in 1861.
In the confusion that followed Wednesday’s desecration of the Capitol, it was widely reported that the last time the building was stormed was in 1814. That overlooked a desperate day in 1861, nearly as lethal to democracy. On Feb. 13, a mob gathered outside the Capitol and tried to force its way in to disrupt the counting of the electoral certificates that would confirm Abraham Lincoln’s election three months earlier. LINK
New York Times
Posted by
Cunningb2
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Patent office
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Watchman
| Posted on
February 25, 2021
The great Streets of Washington blog has a
Patent Department building article. MM White was employed there as a nightwatchman there from 1845-1849.
The Old Patent Office Building, the city's first national museum
LINK
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Cunningb2
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Congressional burials
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Undertaker
| Posted on
October 15, 2020
Posted by
Cunningb2
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employees
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Undertaker
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October 13, 2020
M.M. White and E.C. Merriam (his son-in-law MM daughter Helen is married to ECM ) attest to a black man (newspaper says colored) John Reed's will in 1867.
I do know that John Reed had at one time lived with the White family - but his family connection remains a mystery. Here is Reed listed in 1866 DC Directory as living N Capital n Mass Ave (the White residence that year)
He names Gilson Brown as his executor and leaves him $50 and leaves balance of his property to his son J.J. (John James) Reed of Jefferson County, VA and his cousin, Susan Moore of DC.
His will, I would love to more about who Mr Reed was or find his descendants.
Posted by
Cunningb2
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October 04, 2020
MM dies in 1868 when Margaret Alice is only 10 years old and before she's 15 her mother also dies. We know Ellen left the family the house at Massachusetts and North Capital and we find the youngest two children, brother and sister ( Boyds directory of DC 1874) John C.C. (only 5 years older) living with his sister, Margaret A. (Maggie) at 17 Mass av nw. (some cheap apartments Mass Ave in the 1920s)
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Cunningb2
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Directory
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October 03, 2020
Boyd's Washington and Georgetown directory : containing a business directory of Washington
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Cunningb2
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articles
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October 03, 2020
Taken up astray on the premises 457 Pa avenue night of Friday December - 1859 a dark black and white spotted sow, which the owner can have by calling on M.M. White and paying he charges and c. dec 14
