All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

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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13:49

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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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

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

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

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

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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33:55

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

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

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

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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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30:40

Robert Montgomery Bird: Edwin Forrest & The Gladiator

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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

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

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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