On March 7, 1807, Frederick Greenwood, an apprentice to architect Steven Steiner, placed the last shingle on the steeple of Trinity Chapel on West Church Street in Frederick. It was the first of the city's famous Clustered Spires and dates from1763. On March 7, 1828, Fredericktown Savings Institution was organized. It opened its doors in the office of Dr. Jacob Baer on North Market Street in Frederick. Until 2003 the financial institution was known as Fredericktown Bank, a member of Mercantile Bankshares Corporation. The name Fredericktown Bank disappeared in 2003 when Mercantile purchased Farmers & Mechanics National Bank and decided to continue that name rather than Fredericktown. On March 7, 1856, at a dance at Slabtown, four miles south of Frederick, James Diggs, a free Negro, killed a slave belonging to James H. Simmons with a shovel. Diggs himself was a victim of murder on February 17, 1857, when he was killed by Philip Hawkins, who was hanged at the Frederick County Jail on West South Street for the murder on January 29, 1858. On March 7, 1861, The Examiner newspaper of Frederick reported the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln without any mention of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney of the Supreme Court of the United States, a former Frederick resident who administered the oath of office. On March 7, 1867, Joseph W. L. Carty, former clerk of the Frederick County Circuit Court and a director of Farmers & Mechanics National Bank, died. He was 45 and was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery. On March 7, 1947, Esther E. Grinage, widow of artist William H. B. Grinage, and for whom the Grinage Kindergarten for Negro children (founded By F. Elizabeth Browne and Edna Bowie Dykes in 1937) died at age 54. 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]