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From: "John W. Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 9-17
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 07:04:02 -0400


On September 17, 1743, Joseph Wood, after whom
Woodsboro is named, was born.

On September 17, 1792, Thomas John Clagett was
consecrated as the first Episcopal Bishop of Maryland.
He was the first bishop ordained on American soil and
it is for him that the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
named its Christian education center south of
Buckeystown, the former site of The Buckingham
School.

On September 17, 1861, the Maryland General
Assembly reconvened in Frederick at Kemp Hall to take
a vote on secession, but no vote was ever taken
because several legislators with Southern sympathies
were arrested.

On September 17, 1862, Mrs. Lucy Ware Hayes,
wife of Col. Rutherford B. Hayes, of the 23rd Ohio
Regiment, who would later become President of The
United States, arrived in Middletown to comfort and
care for her husband who had been wounded at The
Battle of South Mountain.

On September 17, 1862, the bloodiest, single-day
battle of The Civil War occurred at Antietam in
Washington County, sending thousands of wounded
men to hospitals in Frederick and Frederick County.

On September 17, 1918, The G.L. Bakery on South
Carroll Street in Frederick was converted into a U.S.
government bakery to make hard bread, sometimes
called hardtack, for soldiers fighting World War I.
James H. Gambrill, Jr., was the bakery owner.

On September 17, 1926, The Lawrence Everhart
Chapter of The Sons of The American Revolution
unveiled a memorial to General Lafayette's visit to
Frederick in 1824.

On September 17, 1937, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and a party of about 30 White House aides,
Secret Service men, and reporters, ate an impromptu
picnic lunch at Braddock Heights overlooking the
Middletown Valley.

On September 17, 1942, Leo Weinberg, who donated
the building used as a synagogue in Frederick since
1923, died in Philadelphia.

On September 17, 1978, The Camp David Accords, an
agreement between Egypt and Israel, was signed at
Camp David near Thurmont. It was the highlight of
President Jimmie Carter's administration.

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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