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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: History Moment - 11-18
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:55:21 -0500
On November 18, 1821, the Rev. David Bossler was installed as the pastor of
the Trinity Reformed Church in Mechanicstown (Thurmont). He served until
November 11, 1832.
On November 18, 1862, Dr. John Moran, the examining physician for the draft
in Frederick, was acquitted at a hearing in Washington on charges he took
bribes to exempt certain young men from military service.
On November 18, 1866, Perry McCleery, the co-publisher with his brother
Valentine of The Moon, and composing room foreman for The Frederick
News-Post for 40 years, was born in the same North Market Street house in
which he died January 24, 1927.
On November 18, 1898, Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, a Frederick native,
arrived in Frederick for a hero's welcome following his July victory at The
Battle of Santiago.
On November 18, 2001, Stoll D. Kemp, who opened the first antique shop in
New Market in 1936, died at a Frederick nursing home. He coined the name of
New Market as "The Antiques Capital of Maryland.
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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