On December 11, 1746, Maryland Governor Thomas Bladen appointed the Rev. Samuel Hunter as rector of All Saints Parish in Frederick. On December 11, 1770, Dorcas Sedgewick Johnson, mother of Thomas Johnson, Maryland's first governor, died. She was born November 2, 1705. On December 11, 1797, Jacob Engelbrecht, who recorded local and world events in diaries from 1819 to 1878, was born in Frederick. On December 11, 1831, the first United Brethren Church was dedicated in Mechanicstown (Thurmont). On December 11, 1839, Edward Yerbury Goldsborough, an attorney, Confederate Civil War veteran, county state's attorney, SPCA advocate, and a U.S. Marshall for Maryland, was born in Frederick. On December 11, 1880, John H. Bruner, president of the Frederick City Board of Aldermen, died of typhoid pneumonia at his North Market Street home. He was born November 20, 1847. On December 11, 1929, Thomas J. C. Williams, who with Folger McKinsey wrote History of Frederick County published in 1910, died in Baltimore. On December 11, 1993, The Board of Directors of The National Museum of Civil War Medicine voted to establish the museum at 48 East Patrick Street in downtown Frederick. The building formerly housed the Carty Furniture Store. 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 <mailto:Wasps1965@comcast.net> Wasps1965@comcast.net