by Thomas
Robertson and Thomas Clarke in the first decade of the nineteenth
century. In the 1920's it was the home of Mrs. Hare Lippincott.

Across the street, at number 2723, a good many years ago, was where
Thomas Harrison and his sister lived for a long time. Miss Virginia kept
a little school for several years and her brother was a translator at
the Naval Observatory until he was well up in his eighties. When he was
over ninety he used to go out calling on Sunday afternoons, as spry as
could be, and with his cheeks as rosy as pippins. They were a couple
much beloved and typical of old-time days.

Chapter XI

_The Three Philanthropists_

George Town produced three eminent philanthropists: one whose
benefactions were solely to Georgetown; a second, who became the
greatest benefactor the City of Washington has ever had, and inaugurated
the tremendous gifts to schools and colleges that have since become the
fashion among men of great wealth; the third started his gifts at home,
then crossed the ocean and made enormous contributions to the largest
city in the world.

The first one, Edward Magruder Linthicum, had a hardware store on the
northwest corner of High (Wisconsin) Avenue and Bridge (M) Street, the
business hub then, as now, of Georgetown. He was a trustee of the
Methodist Church and member of the Town Council.

He built the home at number 3019 P Street, which has such a beautiful
doorway, and lived there until in 1846 he moved up on the Heights to The
Oaks, for which he paid $11,000. William A. Gordon, in his book _Old
Houses in Georgetown Heights_, says of him:

Mr. Linthicum was a prominent and prosperous merchant of the highest
type, a man of great civic activities, and deeply interested in
everything which tended to beautify the community. In his will by a
legacy of $50,000 he provided for the endowment of a school for the
free education of white boys of Georgetown in useful learning and in
the spirit and practice of Christian virtue being, as he expressed
it, convinced that knowledge and piety constitute the only assurance
of happiness and healthful progress to the human race and devoutly
recognizing the solemn duty to society which develops in its
members, and entertaining a serious desire to contribute in some
manner to the permanent welfare of the community, amongst whom my
life has been spent.

As a commentary on the length to which pa