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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: History Moment - 11-17
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:35:08 -0500
On November 17, 1895, James Bowen, 23, was lynched by an angry mob after he
was arrested and charged with attempting to rape Miss Lilly Long at the home
of Hamilton Geisbert, where she was employed. The lynching occurred on the
Jefferson Road from a locust tree on the farm of Kennedy Butler, near where
another lynching occurred in 1887.
On November 17, 1896, Anne Grahame McPherson Ross, who donated the portrait
of The Thomas Johnson Family to the Frederick library to the established by
the will of Mrs. C. Burr Artz, died.
On November 17, 1941, the first bells were placed in the tower and carillon
in the Baker Park Memorial to Joseph Dill Baker, Frederick's First Citizen.
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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