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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: History Moment - 8-24
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:04:56 -0400


On August 24, 1764, Father John Dubois, who founded Mount Saint Mary's
College (now University) 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 (now Monocacy Boulevard) 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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