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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 8-24
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:09:32 -0400


On August 24, 1764, Father John Dubois, who founded
Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary in Emmitsburg,
was born in Paris. He died in New York, where he was
a bishop, on December 20, 1842.

On August 24, 1889, a dispute over a beehive in a tree
led to the shooting death of John W. Hooper, youngest
son of ex-County Commissioner Charles Hooper, at the
hands of Thomas F. Show, at Highlands, west of
Middletown. Show was later found not guilty of
wrongdoing by a jury in Frederick.

On August 24, 1964, ground was broken for the regional
office of State Farm Insurance on Oak Street in Frederick.
The original building was 80,000 square feet, but it grew
to more than 200,000 square feet before a far more
elaborate building was constructed starting in 1993 near
Worman's Mill off Trading Lane between U. S. 15 and
MD 26. This second facility opened October 21, 1996.

If anyone can add information to these History Moments,
or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day,
please contact me privately.

John W. Ashbury
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Walkersville, MD 21793


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