THIS WEEK IN DELAWARE
HISTORY
JUNE 4 TO JUNE 10
JUNE 4
1842: A quarrel in
Congress led to a duel in Claymont and the wounding of
General James Watson Webb
of New York and Comgressman Thomas Marshall of
Kentucky, nephew of Chief
Justice John Marshall. Webb has been know to cuff and cane
“inferior” rivals on
the streets.
1890: Dr. Joseph Conwell
of Milton, wrote his brother in St. Louis that the Milton peach
crop was a failure, and
wheat and corn not much better and that very little money was
around. He noted ship
carpenters were making $1.25 to $1.50 a day and labor 75 cents.
1954: Brookside at
Newark, has homes for $58 to $72 per month
2002: 140,000 came to
Dover Downs for NASCAR races, the largest number ever of
spectators in the 31 year
history of the track.
JUNE 5
1776: Thomas Cooch ,
recently from England, purchased 229 acres near Newark.
1864: The 1st
Delaware Regiment took part in the siege of Petersburg as General
U. S.
Grant tightened the ring
on the Confederacy.
1925: Near 5000 people
stood in the heat at the New Journal office to hear the results of
the Gene Tunney & Tom
Gibbon boxing match.
1956: Gary Deyoung, was
the first Caucasian to graduate from Dovers Delaware s State
College.
JUNE 6
1806: The Grand Lodge of
Delaware, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, A.F. & A. M. ,
was organized in
Wilmington's town Hall.
1904: Charles Bush,
Newark's Delaware College, Class of 1903, became Delaware's
first Rhodes Scholar.
1942: University of
Delaware, now allow men and women to attend class together.
JUNE 7
1848: U. S. Senator John
M. Clayton received one vote for the presidential nomination
at the Wigg Party
Convention in Philadelphia, and Zackary Taylor was nominated
.
1935: Mary Carey and her
son, Howard, of Frankford were hanged for the murder of
her brother Robert
Hitchens of Omar, over a $2000 insurance policy in 1927. Another
son received a life
sentence and another son got seven years.
1954: President Eisenhower
flew to Dover Air Base to speak at Washington College\
in Chestetown.
1988: 30 people were
treated a Kent General when 70 MPH winds hit Smyrna, knocked
out power, uprooted trees
at Belmont Hall, overturned planes at the airport. There were no
deaths.
JUNE 8
1906: Delawares trains can
run on Sundays, despite the Blue Laws, says Chief Justice
Charles Lore.
1919: The 59th
Pioneer Infantry of Delaware returned home from France.
1924: A measles epidemic in
Middletown caused the Forest Presbyterian Church picnic to
be canceled.
1984: Georgetown newswoman
Mary Houston Robinson, daughter of former Congressman
Robert Houston, died at
age 91.
JUNE 9
1813: Captain Robert
Stockton, of New Castle, later Delaware Governor, distinguished
himself fighting at Ft.
George, Ontario, Canada, a year later his brother was killed
at
Lundy's Lane , Niagara
Falls.
1923: President Warren
Harding had dinner at the home of Dr. Frank Grier of 301
Lakeview Avenue and was
that evening inducted in the Tall Cedars of Lebanon .
1951: The Charles Cullen
Bridge over Indian river Inlet was reopened after repairs from
storm damage.
1958: President Eisenhower
appointed Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr., to Judge of the US
District Court of
Delaware
JUNE 10
1826: Daniel &
William Newbold, anticipating growth with the opening of the
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, laid out straight and wide
streets at the east end and called the town
Delaware City.
1848: Congressman Abraham
Lincoln , campaigning for Zachary Taylor made an
address from the balcony of
the Athenaeum at Fourth Street Market House in Wilmington.
1918: Former President
William Howard Taft, now a teacher at Yale Law School , and a
future Chief Justice of
the U. S. Supreme Court, spoke to the class of 1918 of the U of D.
1967: After the class of
1967 of Jason High School in Geogetown was graduated the property
was turned over to
Delaware Technical & Community College
Abstract:: June 3, 2018 by
Harrison H. from June 6, 2002 Sussex Countian,
This Week in Delaware
History, by Roger A. Martin.
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