On January 6, 1776, Thomas Johnson was selected as brigadier general of The Maryland Militia in The Upper District. On January 6, 1882, Gertrude Ingle, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Osborne Ingle, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Frederick, died of diphtheria. Her brother Osborne Ingle, Jr., 3, died less than five days later of the same disease. On January 6, 1949, William R. Diggs, longtime employee of the Baker family in Frederick, and for whom the swimming pool in Mullinex Park is named, died at Frederick City Hospital about nine hours after his wife, Florence, passed away. He was 83 at the time of his death. On January 6, 1960, Lloyd C. Culler, who served as mayor of Frederick for 22 years, died at Frederick Memorial Hospital. He was born June 1, 1869. He also served as an alderman and headed one of Frederick's largest construction firms. On January 6, 1988, it was announced that the Charles Wilson Peale painting of the Thomas Johnson family, which had been willed to the C. Burr Arts Library, was to be "loaned" to The Baltimore Museum of Art. The reason given for the loan was the high cost of insurance for the painting, valued then at $1.5 million. 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 [email protected]