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From: "John W. Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 3-13
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:08:17 -0500


On March 13, 1749, Eva Catherine Schley, daughter of
John Thomas Schley, who built the first house in Frederick,
was born. It is thought that this child was the first to be born
in Fredericktown.

On March 13, 1845, John W. Baughman purchased The
Citizen, which remained in his family well into the 20th
Century.

On March 13, 1872, Walter Osborn, an elderly and destitute
man, died in a small stream in the northwest section of
Frederick County. Seven years later Daniel Smith, who was
seen in possession of some of Osborn's clothing, was
arrested, tried and found not guilty of the murder of Osborn.

On March 13, 1898, Professor Joseph H. Apple, president
of the Women's College of Frederick, preached the sermon
at Trinity Chapel of the Evangelical Reformed Church, after
which the Rev. Eugene L. McLean was selected as the
pastor of a second Reformed Church in Frederick. It became
known as Grace Reformed Church.

On March 13, 1948, The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
station at the southeast corner of East All Saints Street and
South Market Street, from which President Lincoln addressed
Fredericktonians on October 4, 1862, was closed. Passenger
service was moved to a refurbished station on South Carroll
Street.

On March 13, 2001, the Frederick News-Post was sold to
a single branch of the Delaplaine family. The newspaper,
which was started in 1883 by William T. Delaplaine, had
been owned by George B. Delaplaine Jr. and his sister
Frances Delaplaine Randall and their children. The Randall
family purchased the newspapers from The Great Southern
Printing and Manufacturing Company, Inc., and formed The
Randall Family LLC. No purchase price was announced.

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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