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    1. [MDFR] History Moment - 8-10-16
    2. John Ashbury
    3. On August 10, 1753, King George II granted land to John Hawkins. Berlin, now Brunswick, was begun on this land in 1787. On August 10, 1820, Enoch Louis Lowe, the youngest governor in Maryland history, and a resident of East Second Street in Frederick as an adult, was born. He died August 23, 1892, in Brooklyn, NY, and is buried in St. John's Catholic Cemetery in Frederick. On August 10, 1826, the first graduation exercises from "St. John's Female Benevolent and First Frederick Free School" on East Second Street was conducted. 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 Wasps1965@comcast.net <mailto:Wasps1965@comcast.net>

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