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From: "John W. Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 10-1
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:45:29 -0400
On October 1, 1822, John Garrison Etchison, who
founded The Etchison Funeral Home in 1848 in
Jefferson, was born. He died February 24, 1880, at
age 57.
On October 1, 1853, Robert E. Jones opened a
military academy at the former Landon Female
Seminary in Urbana.
On October 1, 1860, Lewis Edward Byerly, a tanner
and for 48 years president of The Great Southern
Printing and Manufacturing Company, publishers of the
Frederick News-Post, was born on East Patrick Street.
He died February 27, 1941, of a heart attack.
On October 1, 1912, Charles Wright Ely, superintendent
of The Maryland School for The Deaf and Dumb for 42
years, died in Washington, D.C. He was born in 1839 in
Madison, Conn.
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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