DC History Editathon

The DC Wikimedia group presented an editathon at the DC Historical Society in their library. I asked a librarian for suggestions and he got me a 1932 collection of biographies of notable contemporary Washingtonians, volume III of John Clagett Proctor's "Washington Past And Present".

I looked through it for biographies of people who seemed notable enough for Wikipedia. Many of them were lawyers or business executive who didn't seem to be of interest today, but then I found Crosby Stuart Noyes, who founded a newspaper, the Evening Star, that ran until 1981. I also worked on the entries for his sons Theodore W. and Frank Brett, who also worked at the newspaper. It was quite a dynasty: two further generations worked at the paper, and some of them already had stub entries.