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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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02:16:14

ABC #065 Fathers and Mothers of American Medicine:...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/08/01

John Rhea Barton was a master surgeon who has both a fracture and a professorship named for him. Thomas Story Kirkbride wanted to take Barton’s role, but instead got interested in caring for the mentally ill at a time when a new philosophy was being introduced. Kirkbride asylums became the standard of care for many decades. Anna Lukens was among the students from Women’s Medical College who were verbally and physically assaulted after an attempt at coeducational clinical teaching at Pennsylvania

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24:36

Richard Burr: Poster Child for Wartime Embalmers

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2024/08/01

ABC #065 - Part 4 Richard Burr was a Civil War surgeon who found there was more money in "treating" the dead and became an embalmer. Photographer Matthew Brady immortalized him with a battlefield photo. This is section 4 of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #065 - Fathers and Mothers of American Medicine, Part 4. You can find plenty of other stories about American medical pioneers in earlier episodes.

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38:37

Thomas Story Kirkbride - An Architect for Madness

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/07/31

ABC #065 - Part 2 Thomas Kirkbride trained as a surgeon but developed an interest in madness during his training. His blueprint for asylums became the standard for nearly a century. This is one of four people I talk about in All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #65 - Fathers and Mothers of American Medicine, Part 4. You will find many other stories about Philadelphia medical pioneers in Parts 1, 2, and 3.

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19:03

John Rhea Barton and Surgical Innovation

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/07/30

ABC #065 - Part 1 John Rhea Barton was a student of Philip Syng Physick who carried on his reputation as an innovative and bold surgeon in the early 19th century. Another excerpt from the upcoming podcast "Fathers (and Mothers) of American Medicine, Part 4. The full podcast will be released on 1 August.

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29:49

Anna Lukens and the She Doctor Panic of 1869

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/07/29

ABC #065 - Part 3 In 1869, Anna Lukens was one of the 30+ medical students from Women's Medical College who inadvertently caused an uproar when they showed up at the weekly clinics. Despite having permission to be there and purchasing tickets, their mere presence caused a riot among the "gentlemen". I am experimenting with short form. I will continue to post the monthly long-form podcast on the 1st and 15th, but I will also start making available the individual people as separate

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01:18:46

BBB#034: Sweet Tooth - Wilbur, Baker, Hershey

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2024/07/09

Almost everybody loves chocolate. 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. Although Hershey is not buried locally, his beloved wife Kitty spent nearly three years in a receiving vault until a new cemetery was built in Hershey as her final resting place. Grain merchant Franklin Baker once received a load

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02:00:56

ABC#064: Four More Olympians from 1904 to 1912

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/07/01

An earlier episode of All Bones Considered covered the 1900 Paris Olympiad and some Laurel Hill residents who participated. This month features four more Olympians from the early 20th century.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. Jervis Watson Burdick was a UPenn student member of the Sphinx Club and the

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BBB#033: Abram Winegardner Harris - A Forgotten Educator

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/06/13

Abram Winegardner Harris was one of the top educators in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After he was schooled in Philadelphia and spent time with the Department of Agriculture, he served as president of the land grant school in Orono when it became the University of Maine. While there he helped establish the first general studies academic fraternity Phi Kappa Phi. Then he spent a few years at a private secondary boarding school in Maryland where he established the Cum

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30:57

George Henry Boker: The Playwright Who Fixed Everything

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2024/06/04

ABC #063 - Part 4 George Henry Boker was one of Philadelphia’s most accomplished men – poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of the Union League. He also solidified copyright laws in the United States so creators could be fairly paid. Oh – he was also minister to Turkey and Russia.

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24:17

Robert Taylor Conrad: Mayor and Playwright

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/06/04

ABC #063 - Part 3 Robert Taylor Conrad was a polymath whose writing was praised by Edgar Allen Poe and whose play Aylmere, or Jack Cade became another favorite of Edwin Forrest’s. He also served as Mayor of Philadelphia at the time of consolidation.

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Robert Montgomery Bird: Edwin Forrest & The Gladiator

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/06/04

ABC #063 - Part 2 Robert Montgomery Bird was a physician who wrote a play for Edwin Forrest that became the basis for plays and movies into the 21st century. Forrest became rich, while Bird became an embittered man.

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23:37

Richard Penn Smith: Inventing Davy Crockett

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2024/06/04

ABC #063 - Part 1 Richard Penn Smith wrote more than 20 plays but is best remembered today for inventing much of what we know as the legend of Davy Crockett.

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02:11:14

ABC#063: Curtain Up! Four Early Philadelphia...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/06/04

Americans struggled to establish their own identity as they separated from the British in the early 19th century. It was a time of blossoming for American theater and its playwrights, despite their receiving little honor and even less compensation.Richard Penn Smith wrote more than 20 plays but is best remembered today for inventing much of what we know as the legend of Davy Crockett. Robert Montgomery Bird was a physician who wrote a play for Edwin Forrest that became the basis for plays and

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01:14:46

BBB#032: Philadelphia's Jazz Lodestar - Dennis Sandole

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2024/05/15

Dennis Sandole was one of the best kept secrets in jazz. Born Dionigi Sandoli in South-Philadelphia-born, his teaching techniques were sought by Art Farmer, James Moody, Benny Golson, Jim Hall, and especially John Coltrane, who became his most famous student. Coltrane spent hours practicing daily to master the material that The Maestro gave him and turn it into his own sound, which eventually became “Sheets of Sound” and then “Coltrane Changes”. Sandole rarely recorded or performed live but he

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16:34

J.B. Lippincott: Lippincott's Magazine

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/05/01

ABC #062 - Part 3 Joshua Ballinger Lippincott was a late comer with his Lippincott’s magazine, but it lasted longer than the others and served as the bedrock for the famed Lippincott Publishing Company which went through several generations of family leadership.

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25:08

Charles Jacob Peterson and Peterson's Magazine

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/05/01

ABC #062 - Part 2 Charles Peterson was a lifelong friend of Graham who started his own magazine and was ready to hand it off to his son, Howard, who mysteriously disappeared during a weekend trip down the shore. What his wife did at the time of her death 31 years later will touch your heart.

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George Rex Graham and Graham's Magazine

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/05/01

ABC #062 - Part 1 Of the 19th century magazines out of Philadelphia, Graham’s was the best, even though it only lasted a few years. George Rex Graham would wheedle articles out of Longfellow and Thoreau and published many stories by his co-editor Edgar Allan Poe.

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01:23:36

ABC#062: Three More Philadelphia Magazines -...

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2024/05/01

Philadelphia has always been the magazine-publishing capital of the United States. It reached its pinnacle in the 1840s, 50s, and 60s when three popular magazines – Graham’s, Peterson's, and Lippincott's - all came into existence. Graham’s was the best, even though it only lasted a few years. George Rex Graham would wheedle articles out of Longfellow and Thoreau, and published many stories by his co-editor Edgar Allan Poe. Peterson’s magazine followed shortly and lasted a few years longer.

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BBB#031: Gladys Hall & Russell Ball - Glamourizing...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/14

It wasn’t long after movies became ubiquitous in America that movie fan magazine appeared. Eventually there would be more than 20 of them. Gladys Hall had a stellar reputation as a “safe” interviewer who could be depended on to tell a good story without any scandal. Her interview with Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi is one of the strangest things you could imagine. She was married to glamour photographer Russell Ball, remembered today for his classic portraits of Louise Brooks, Rudolph

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18:03

Pete Childs: No, Not That One

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 4 Pete Childs (not "Cupid" and definitely not "Pierce") was a fine 2nd baseman who served in that role for the 1902 Phillies. It was while serving as player-manager for an Ohio League team that he pulled the unfathomable feat of throwing one pitch as a reliever and getting three out.

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