-- for a new church. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton directed that the Union Army Chapel at Kalorama Hospital be moved to the site and refurbished, and St. Mary's Episcopal Church, came into existence. Catherine Pearson died a year after making the donation. A daughter of Joseph Pearson and Catherine Worthington, Elizabeth Pearson, married Carlile Pollock Patterson, and Mr. & Mrs. Patterson hosted many social events in Washington at the Brentwood Mansion during the Administration of President Ulysses S. Grant. A descendant (Edward Sisson) of the family that owned the mansion throughout its existence has posted a collection of paintings, drawings, photos, and histories of the mansion on-line in an "album" titled "Worthington House and Brentwood Mansion" on a Mac Web Gallery site: http://gallery.mac.com/sissoed#gallery. The Frick Art Reference Library (http://www.frick.org/) has drawings, paintings, and perhaps photographs (although none appear to be accessible on-line as of late 2007). Catherine Worthington Pearson, her father, her daughter Eliza Patterson and son-in-law C.P. Patterson, and many members of her family (but not her husband, who died while on a trip to North Carolina and was buried there) are buried in the Worthington vault at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington D.C.. Joseph Pearson and Catherine Worthington are ancestors of noted American author Susan Mary Alsop (born Susan Mary Jay) (obituary at https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13830-2004Aug18.html). Susan Mary Jay's parents were Peter Augustus Jay (III) & Susan Alexander McCook; her paternal grandparents Augustus Jay & Emily Astor Kane; Augustus Jay's parents were Peter Augustus Jay (II) and Josephine Pearson, daughter of Joseph Pearson and Catherine Worthington (Roberts mistakenly inserts the name Elizabeth instead of Catherine). Susan Mary Jay married, first, William Patten; after his 1960 death, she married Joseph Alsop V. See also Eleventh United States Congress Twelfth United States Congress Thirteenth United States Congress U.S. Congress Biographical Directory entry Brown, Stephen W. "Satisfaction at Bladensburg: The Pearson-Jackson Duel of 1809." North Carolina Historical Review 58 (Winter 1981): 23-43. References Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives 1776 births 1834 deaths American planters American duellists Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Members of the American Antiquarian Society People from Rowan County, North Carolina People from Salisbury, North Carolina