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This Day In History

By John Ashbury

On April 15, 1725, Tasker's Chance, on part of which the City of Frederick was established in 1745, was surveyed for Benjamin Tasker, president of The Governor's Council of Maryland.

On April 15, 1770, Trinity Reformed Church of Thurmont (then Mechanicstown) was organized at a meeting one mile east of the town. It is the mother church of both the Lutheran and Reformed congregations in the vicinity of the town.

On April 15, 1779, Richard Potts, who would later replace Charles Carroll of Carrollton in the U. S. Senate, married Elizabeth Hughes of Hagerstown MD. She was his first wife and bore him nine children.

On April 15, 1860, William Cost Johnson, a native and resident of Jefferson, died suddenly at The National Hotel in Washington. He was a member of the state legislature and represented the district in Congress for three terms.

On April 15, 1909, a marble sculpture of the Last Supper, done in Italy, was unveiled behind the communion table in All Saints Episcopal Church on West Church Street in Frederick. The piece was donated to the church by Mrs. William P. Maulsby and her sister, Mrs. G. W. Z. Black, as a memorial to their sister Miss Alexinia Pigman, who had died at the Maulsby home on Court Square on April 28, 1904.

On April 15, 1910, The Rev. Edmond R. Eschbach, pastor of The Evangelical Reformed Church in Frederick on West Church Street for 36 years, died. He was born November 9, 1835, in Paradise Township, Northumberland County, PA. He was buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

On April 15, 1914, George Alfred "Gath" Townsend, who built the memorial to Civil War Correspondents at Gapland State Park on South Mountain, died in New York City.

On April 15, 1930, The Taney Home on South Bentz Street in Frederick was opened as a tourist attraction for the first time.

On April 15, 1946, D. John Markey, of Walkersville, withdrew as a candidate for governor of Maryland, and announced his intention to challenge for the U. S. Senate seat.

On April 15, 1950, Holmes Davenport Baker, who succeeded his father, Joseph Dill Baker, as president of The Citizens National Bank, died at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore following hernia surgery. He was born in Frederick on April 11, 1880.

On April 15, 1969, Dr. Bernard O. Thomas, Sr., who practiced medicine in Frederick County from 1906 to 1965, and who served as county medical examiner for 10 years, died at his Watkins Acres home at age 86. He was born near Adamstown on November 6, 1882.

On April 15, 1976, The National Municipal League named Frederick as one of the 10 "All-American Cities" for the bicentennial year. The presentation was actually made at a banquet at The Elks Club on May 22, 1976.

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