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    1. [MDFR] History Moment - 10-11-06
    2. John Ashbury
    3. On October 11, 1825, Dr. Fairfax Schley, great-great-grandson of John Thomas Schley, who built the first house in Fredericktown, and a prominent physician and proponent of The Frederick Fair, was born. On October 11, 1863, Samuel Weinberg, a prominent Frederick businessman, married Amelia Lowenstein, of Baltimore, after a courtship of 28 days. On October 11, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes attended The Great Frederick Fair. On October 11, 1901, The Rev. James Addison Ingle, son of the Rev. Osborne Ingle, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Frederick, was elected the Episcopal missionary bishop of Hankow, China. On October 11, 1971, McCutcheon Cider Mill was incorporated as McCutcheon Apple Products, Inc., on South Wisner Street in Frederick. 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 (wasps65@earthlink.net)

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