On November 17, 1895, James Bowen, 23, was lynched by an angry mob after he was arrested and charged with attempting to rape Miss Lilly Long at the home of Hamilton Geisbert, where she was employed. The lynching occurred on the Jefferson Road from a locust tree on the farm of Kennedy Butler, near where another lynching occurred in 1887. On November 17, 1896, Anne Grahame McPherson Ross, who donated the portrait of The Thomas Johnson Family to the Frederick library to be established by the will of Mrs. C. Burr Artz, died. On November 17, 1941, the first bells were placed in the tower and carillon in the Baker Park Memorial to Joseph Dill Baker, Frederick's First Citizen. On November 17, 2010, a building on the Columbia Campus of the Maryland School for the Deaf was named in honor of Dr. David Denton, who served as the superintendent of that institution from 1967 until his retirement in 1992. Dr. Denton was headquartered at the Frederick Campus of MSD, located on South Market Street. 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]