On December 26, 1774, The Maryland Gazette reported the case of John Parks who was forced by the Committee for The Upper Part of Frederick County, to walk bare-headed and set fire to a “chest of tea” he owned in defiance of an order barring such commodity. On December 26, 1788, Dr. Elisha John Hall, of Fredericktown, addressed a small local group of physicians in Baltimore. This speech led eventually to the formation of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1799. On December 26, 1794, a Corporation of Frederick ordinance required all homes to keep leather buckets near their front entrances to supply water in case of fire. On December 26, 1839, First Lieutenant George E. Davis, Company D, 10th Vermont Infantry, who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions at The Battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864, was born in Dunstable, MA. On December 26, 1941, William Tyler Page, who was born on Record Street in Frederick and who was also the author of The American's Creed, set the record of 60 years service at the United States Capitol in Washington. He was the clerk of The House of Representatives for many years. John W. Ashbury [email protected]