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Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA

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Wikipedia 2017:

Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States. A suburb of both Baltimore and Washington, D.C., it is the seat of Carroll County. The city's population was 18,590 at the 2010 census. Westminster is an outlying community within the Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA.

History:

William Winchester (1706-1790) purchased approximately 167 acres of land called White's Level in 1754 which became known as the city of Winchester. The Maryland General Assembly later changed the name of his town from Winchester to Westminster because Winchester was also the name of the county seat of Frederick County, Virginia where it was at that time located.

On June 28, 1864, the cavalry skirmish known as Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J.E.B. Stuart.

In April 1865, Joseph Shaw, newspaper editor, had his presses wrecked and his business destroyed, and was subsequently beaten and stabbed to death by four men in Westminster, allegedly because of an anti-Lincoln editorial that was published the week before the actual assassination. In a later trial at the Westminster Court House the four men were acquitted; the reason cited was "self-defense".

Since 1868, Westminster has held an annual Memorial Day parade, which is the longest continuously running Memorial Day parade in the country.

Just north of Westminster is the farm at which Whittaker Chambers hid the so-called "pumpkin papers."

A historic marker states that Westminster was the first place in the nation to offer Rural Free Delivery postal service.

Westminster is the birthplace of Sargent Shriver (1915–2011), the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1972, and the first director of the Peace Corps.

On March 10, 2006, members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Matthew A. Snyder who had been killed in the Iraq War. Church members stood on city property adjoining St. John Catholic Church where the funeral took place. Snyder's father sued the church for violating his privacy. The United States Supreme Court in March 2011 ruled in Snyder v. Phelps that church members had a free speech right to picket.

On Friday, June 26, 2015 the City of Westminster lit the Westminster Fiber Network, the first community wide gigabit fiber to the premise network in the mid-Atlantic region. The City partnered with Ting Inc., a subsidiary of Tucows, to light the network and provide gigabit services.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Zendgraft, Joseph Steward	27 Sep 1918	Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I165602

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Arter, Michael	28 Mai 1808	Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I237528
2	Diehl, Mary Catharine	30 Mai 1805	Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I237529

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Arter, Michael		Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I237528
2	Benedict, John Peter		Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I237441
3	Benedict, Peter		Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I237443
4	Bowersox, Mary Elizabeth		Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I165601
5	Diehl, Mary Catharine	1 Jun 1805	Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I237529
6	Heagy, Jane H.		Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I165609
7	Zendgraft, Joseph Steward		Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	I165602

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Bowersox / Hunter	24 Mai 1941	Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, USA	F54726