Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . o is a native of Rappa-hannock county, Virginia,was born in 1819, and cameto Washington in 1843, inthose eaily days when ourCapital was a village ofbeautiful distances. studied law underRobert Y. Conrad, of Vir-ginia, and was admitted tothe bar of that Common-wealth in 1842, and topractice before the UnitedStates Supreme Court in1853. The firm attend toa general business as solicit-ors of patents, and
Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . o is a native of Rappa-hannock county, Virginia,was born in 1819, and cameto Washington in 1843, inthose eaily days when ourCapital was a village ofbeautiful distances. studied law underRobert Y. Conrad, of Vir-ginia, and was admitted tothe bar of that Common-wealth in 1842, and topractice before the UnitedStates Supreme Court in1853. The firm attend toa general business as solicit-ors of patents, and theirlegal advice in patent lawshas contributed largely totheir staunch Evans has securedmany notable patents, andhis views are often solicitedby the officers of the Gov-ernment. He was for some j^ears the president of the popular Woodmont Rodand Gun Club, whose object is the enjoyment of the sports of fishing and hunt-ing, the propagation and preservation of fish and game, and enforcement of properlaws for the protection of game and fish. This club was organized in March, 1880,and has its own club-house and grounds at all times open to the free use of EDSON BROTHERS, Attorneys at Law & Solicitors of Patents917 F StreerN. J. J. and J. R. Edson estab-lished themselves in this city in 1866,devoting their energy at once to the studyof the intricate patent-laws and the soli-citing of patents. The Messrs. Edsonhave practiced before the Patent Officesince 1866, and before the bar of theSupreme Court of the District of Colum-bia since 1868, and are now practitionersbefore the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates. They have solicited some of themost difficult patents successfully, a large number of rejected cases having beenrevived and finally allowed through theirefforts. A visit to their finely fitted upsuit of offices at 917 F street N. W. willbe interesting to their many patrons andfriends. The completeness of its appoint-ments, in all respects,
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