On November 2, 1705, Dorcas Sedgewick, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Sedgewick and future wife of Maryland's first governor, Thomas Johnson, was born. She died December 11, 1770. On November 2, 1783, Dr. Francis Brown Sappington married Anne Ridgley. He practiced medicine in Libertytown and died in 1839. He was also among the founders of the Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty in 1799. On November 2, 1883, Walkersville was connected by telephone to Frederick, adding to the telephone network that was building across the county. On November 2, 1901, Horace Zacharias and Joseph l. Carty purchased the Schissler property on East Second Street on behalf of the Grace Reformed Congregation. The purchase price at auction was $5,940. On November 2, 1906, the cornerstone was laid for the James Mifflin Hood Memorial Wing at Frederick City Hospital. The wing was removed during a remodeling of the hospital some years later. On November 2, 1908, the Rev. E. L. McLean and his family first occupied the rectory of Grace Reformed Church, located at 28 East Third Street in Frederick, which was directly behind the church. The property was purchased from Albert Maynard for $4,700. On November 2, 1933, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt made her second stop in Frederick in four months when she had dinner at Miller's Restaurant on East Patrick Street. She was accompanied by Col. Louis Henry Howe, secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The First Lady had eaten dinner at the Francis Scott Key Hotel on July 26. On November 2, 1940, Challedon, who was bred and raised on a Walkersville area horse farm, won his second Pimlico Special. The horse, with his victory in the Santa Anita Derby, brought about the air conditioning of The Tivoli Theater in downtown Frederick, now The Weinberg Center for the Arts. On November 2, 1975, the first service of the Brunswick Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was held in the Moose Lodge. 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>