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    1. [MDFR] History Moment - 11-9-06
    2. John Ashbury
    3. On November 9, 1778, Thomas Johnson began his third one-year term as Maryland Governor. On November 9, 1819, Thomas Sim Lee, second governor of Maryland, died at Needwood near Petersville. He was born October 29, 1745. On November 9, 1925, the bylaws of The Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter of The Sons of The American Revolution, located in Frederick, were adopted. On November 9, 1931, Walker N. Jolliffe, the pioneer real estate entrepreneur who developed Rockwell Terrace in Frederick, died at the Maryland State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Sabillasville. He was an active Rotarian and member of Calvary Methodist Church. On November 9, 1945, Margaret Minerva Robinson, the first principal and first teacher at Girls High School in Frederick in 1889, died at the Home for The Aged on Record Street, now the Record Street Home. 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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