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From: "John W. Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 9-20
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:04:26 -0400


On September 20, 1737, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
was born in Annapolis. He was the only Roman Catholic
to sign The Declaration of Independence. At various
times he owned vast tracts of land in Frederick County
and was considered the most wealthy of all the signers
of the most significant document in our nation's history.

On September 20, 1806, the first vestry of St. Mark's
Episcopal Parish at Petersville was elected.

On September 20, 1814, The Baltimore Patriot became
the first newspaper to publish Francis Scott Key's poem
"The Defence of Ft. McHenry."

On September 20, 1838, Thomas Jackson, of Cape
Palmas, addressed a crowd at the Evangelical Lutheran
Church on East Church Street in Frederick on the
colonization program. He left Frederick for Africa in 1831.
(The independent African state of Maryland was founded
at Cape Palmas in 1833 and was annexed by Liberia in
1857.)

On September 20, 1876, the Junior Fire Company put
the first steam engine in service in Frederick.

On September 20, 1909, the Rev. Osborne Ingle, rector
of All Saints Episcopal Church on West Church Street in
Frederick for 43 years, died at the church rectory on
Record Street.

On September 20, 1952, George T. Bruchey, Jr., 13, of
474 West South Street, Frederick, was killed when he rode
his bicycle into the side of a tractor-trailer on West Patrick
Street hill, just east of Jefferson Street.

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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