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    1. [MDFR] History Moment - 12-14-15
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    3. On December 14, 1910, M. E. Getzendanner, a grocer and dealer in liquor on West Patrick Street in Frederick, and among the founders of the Frederick Seamless Hosiery Company (later The Union Manufacturing Company), died. He was known as Eugene and was born on January 23, 1845. On December 14, 1919, Clarence S. Wallace, who shot and killed Thurmont merchant Leo M. Creager on October 18, 1919, during a manhunt in the area surrounding Thurmont, was himself shot and killed by police in Santa Barbara, CA On December 14, 1924, St. Timothy's Episcopal Church on Franklin Street in Frederick was consecrated. When the church opened for services, it was debt free. The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland closed the church in September 2015. On December 14, 1952, Dr. Thomas S. Eader, who, when he retired as a practicing dentist on August 3, 1952, was the oldest active dentist in America, died following a fall at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen Eader Johnson, on Clarke Place in Frederick. On December 14, 1973, Red Men's Hall was purchased for the Brunswick Museum. 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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