On October 1, 1822, John Garrison Etchison, who founded The Etchison Funeral Home in 1848 in Jefferson, was born. He died February 24, 1880, at age 57. On October 1, 1853, Robert E. Jones opened a military academy at the former Landon Female Seminary in Urbana. On October 1, 1854, Wesley Chapel of the Methodist Church was dedicated in Urbana. It was also known as the Urbana Methodist Episcopal Church in its early history. On October 1, 1860, Lewis Edward Byerly, a tanner and for 48 years president of The Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing Company, publishers of The Frederick News-Post, was born on East Patrick Street in Frederick. He died February 27, 1941, of a heart attack. On October 1, 1882, the banking house of Annan, Horner & Company, of Emmitsburg, was organized. It was the first banking institution in Frederick County outside Frederick City. On October 1, 1903, the Citizens Savings Bank of Thurmont opened for business in the "Mackley Building." On October 1, 1908, the First National Bank of Monrovia, Maryland, opened for business. It had been organized on June 30, 1908. On October 1, 1912, Charles Wright Ely, superintendent of The Maryland School for The Deaf and Dumb for 42 years, died in Washington, D.C. He was born in 1839 in Madison, CT. On October 1, 2010, Army Sgt. 1st Class Lance Herman Vogeler, a 1999 graduate of Frederick's Gov. Thomas Johnson High School, was killed in action in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, during a ferocious firefight. He was born August 9, 1981, in Manchester, MD, the son of Timothy R. and Donna L. Vogeler. At the time of his death, he and his wife and two children made their home in Savannah, GA. 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]