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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.

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17:37

Emory R. Johnson and the Panama Canal

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/09/07

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #066 - Laurel Hill and the Panama Canal, Part 4Emory Richard Johnson was the only Professor of Transportation and Commerce in the United States when he was asked to come up with a payment schedule for people using the Panama Canal. His methods were used for more than half a century.

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15:09

Charles Day and the Panama Canal

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/09/06

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #066 - Laurel Hill and the Panama Canal, Part 3 Charles Day was a master builder. His Philadelphia firm Day & Zimmerman was first to pour concrete at the massive Culebra locks, which worked perfectly from day one.

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11:30

Lewis M Haupt and the Panama Canal

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/09/05

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #066 - Laurel Hill and the Panama Canal, Part 2 Lewis Haupt was son of famed railroad Engineer Herman Haupt (see Biographical Bytes from Bala #10: Lincoln's Railroad Man). Lewis became a civil engineer who was skeptical about a canal across Panama but joined the working committee when he was invited.

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23:07

John Cresson Trautwine and the Panama Canal

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/09/04

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #066 - Laurel Hill and the Panama Canal, Part 1 John Cresson Trautwine was a civil engineer who wrote what became the definitive Engineer's Handbook which was standard text for decades; he also predicted that it would be impossible to build a canal through Panama.

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30:52

Rudolph Hering & Reversing the Chicago River

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/09/03

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #066, Pushing Water, Section 2 Rudolph Hering was son of the famed homeopath Constantine Hering. He became such as expert on hydraulic engineering that he was invited to Chicago to assist with their drinking water problem, and he helped them reverse the river.

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31:58

Frederick Graff and Watering Philadelphia

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/09/02

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #066, Pushing Water, Section 1 Frederick Graff was a civil engineer / architect who quickly learned the principles of hydraulics when he was tagged to set up the water supply for Philadelphia. He became a master of his craft.

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02:28:43

ABC066 Frederick Graff, Rudolph Hering, John C....

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/09/01

All Bones Considered #066: Pushing WaterFrederick Graff took over from Benjamin Latrobe to develop the Philadelphia Water Works Rudolph Hering was summoned to Chicago to help them with their drinking water problem and helped them reverse the flow of the Chicago River John C. Trautwine is remembered for his book, called "The Engineer's Bible," and for predicting a canal could never be built across Panama Lewis Haupt was another doubter, although he served on the Panama Committee Charles Day

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27:39

Anna J Magee: Rescuing the Disabled

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/16

ABC060-3Anna Justina Magee was the last of seven siblings who lived together their entire lives. Her legacy for the family was a hospital designed for people who were convalescing from injury – The Magee Rehabilitation Hospital.

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34:33

Elizabeth Duane Gillespie: The Woman Who Saved the...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/16

ABC060-2 Elizabeth Duane Gillespie came from a politically active family; she was the chief fundraiser and organizer for the Sanitary Fair of 1864, which put her in the position to lead the way for the Centennial Exposition of 1876. She ended up rescuing it from disaster.

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49:44

Esther DeBerdt Reed: From Tory to American Patriot

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/16

ABC060-1 London-born Esther DeBerdt Reed married a man who became George Washington’s right-hand man and switched her Tory allegiance to become a radial patriot; the organization she founded to provide some relief to the soldiers fighting for her freedom didn’t quite go the way that she had planned.

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36:34

George Meade Easby and the Haunting of Baleroy

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/16

ABC051-1 George Gordon Meade Easby, a wealthy and eccentric character named after his great grandfather, lived in a Chestnut Hill mansion called Baleroy for most of his 87 years. He didn’t mind sharing the space with phantom apparitions, which included his younger brother, his mother, Thomas Jefferson, and a malevolent spirit named “Amanda”, along with several others.

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34:00

William Welsh Harrison and the Haunting of Grey...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/16

ABC050-2 William Welsh Harrison was a moneyed man due to America’s sweet tooth – he made a fortune as a sugar manufacturer. Part of his wealth went to build the family home, Grey Towers Castle in Glenside. His former home now serves as administrative offices for Arcadia University, but his presence is still felt on the property. Apparently, the castle and other campus buildings are haunted.

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33:58

William M. Meredith: U.S. Poet Laureate

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/14

BBB035 William Morris Meredith, Jr., described himself as a "B+ poet who has written a few A+ poems". Despite his modesty, his poetry was recognized as some of the best in post-WWII America. He served for two years as US Poet Laureate and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is interred at Laurel Hill West.

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22:36

Katherine "Kitty" Hershey: Temporary Residency

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/04

BBB034-3Milton Hershey's beloved wife Kitty died in a Philadelphia hotel room and spent nearly three years in a receiving vault at Laurel Hill West until a new cemetery was built in Hershey as her final resting place.

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26:51

Franklin Baker: Sublime with the Coconut

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/04

BBB034-2 Grain merchant Franklin Baker once received a load of coconut as payment for a boatload of grain. Baker turned this serendipitous occurrence into a lifetime of working with coconut, such that the name “Baker’s” is almost synonymous with coconuts.

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23:46

Henry Oscar Wilbur: Buds vs. Kisses

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/04

BBB034-1 Henry Oscar Wilbur was a Philadelphia chocolatier who was probably most famous for his small chocolate pieces with his name on the bottom. He called them Wilbur Buds and offered a spirited competition to Milton Hershey’s Kisses.

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32:58

Lawson "Robbie" Robertson - Coach Extraordinaire

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/02

ABC #064- Part 1 The Olympics are here. If you missed it the first time, here’s an opportunity to learn about some Olympiads interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Lawson “Robbie” Robertson won medals in the Intercalated Games of 1906 in Athens and went on to become head coach of the University of Pennsylvania track and field team. He took them back to the Olympics several more times. You will learn about these four athletes along with the jumbled letters of the AC4A, the AAU, the NCAA, and the

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23:16

Jervis Watson Burdick and the Stockholm Games

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/02

ABC #064 - Part 2 The Olympics are here. If you missed it the first time, here’s an opportunity to learn about some Olympiads interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Jervis Watson Burdick was a UPenn student member of the Sphinx Club and the Canteen Club who competed in the1912 Olympics but did not medal. You will learn about these four athletes along with the jumbled letters of the AC4A, the AAU, the NCAA, and the IAAF on this month’s edition of “All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories – Four

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37:22

Ted Meredith - The Fastest Schoolboy in the Country

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/02

ABC #064 - Part 3 The Olympics are here. If you missed it the first time, here’s an opportunity to learn about some Olympiads interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. James Edwin “Ted” Meredith was the fastest schoolboy in the country and broke every distance running record from 100 meters to 1 mile; his Gold in the 1912 Olympics was for the 4 x 400-meter relay. And don’t forget All Bones Considered #029: The Zany Games about Laurel Hill residents in 1900’s Olympiad II in Paris.

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Donald Fithian Lippincott - Surprising Medalist at...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/02

ABC #064 - Part 4 The Olympics are here. If you missed it the first time, here’s an opportunity to learn about some Olympiads interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Donald Fithian Lippincott surprised everyone, including himself, when he took both a bronze and a silver in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. And don’t forget All Bones Considered #029: The Zany Games about Laurel Hill residents at 1900’s Olympiad II in Paris. https://jrlexjr.podbean.com/e/olympiad-ii-paris-1900/ or wherever you listen to

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