On April 5, 1822, Dr. Samuel Annan, of Emmitsburg, reported the first case of a tracheotomy performed in Maryland. He reported a second case on August 22, 1822. On April 5, 1841, Jacob T. C. Miller was elected burgess of Middletown over Adam Keller, 51 votes to 19. Commissioners elected were Jacob Young, Jacob Weiss, Thomas Nottingham, Sam Riddlemoser, Van Swearingen and George Bier. Unsuccessful candidates for commissioner were Dr. Jacob Baer, George Bowlus, Peter Young and Sam Geisinger. On April 5, 1842, George Troxell Motter, who would serve as an "acting assistant surgeon" with the Union Army during the Civil War, and who would practice medicine in Taneytown into the 20th Century, was born in Emmitsburg. On April 5, 1854, Mrs. Jane Eves was "found dead with her throat cut in a house" northwest of Liberty. Basil Eves, her husband, from whom she had been separated for two years was arrested, but was never brought to trial. On April 5, 1865, Henry Warfel, a native of Pennsylvania who entered the Union Army at Frederick Junction, captured the Virginia State flag at Paines Crossing (VA). On May 3, 1865, he was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions. On April 5, 1881, Elizabeth Dulany (Bessie) Ingle, 10, fourth child of the Reverend and Mrs. Osborne Ingle, died. The Rev. Mr. Ingle, the rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Frederick, would lose eight members of his immediate family before the end of January 1883, when his wife and a son died during childbirth. On April 5, 1907, the Brunswick YMCA opened. It had dormitory rooms with a total of 46 beds. On April 5, 1942, Interior Secretary Harold Ickles selected Camp 3-Hi Catoctin near Thurmont as the presidential retreat for Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is now known as Camp David, so named after the grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower. On April 5, 1969, a huge moonshine still capable of producing 250 gallons per day was destroyed by federal and state police officials on Woodville Road near Mount Airy. Four Washington area men were arrested. On April 5, 1990, ground was broken for a new Frederick County Health Department complex on the site of the old (1870) Montevue Home on Rosemont Avenue at Montevue Lane 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 [email protected]