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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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51:17

BBB#021: Blood on the Tracks at Mile 59 - Duffy’s Cut

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/06/15

The first American railroads were built with the blood, tears and sweat of Irish immigrants. An estimated 50,000 died in the process. In the 3-mph world of 1832, 57 fresh-off-the-boat Irishmen were hired by their countryman Philip Duffy. They were taken to live in a shantytown and work at mile 59 of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, which is now part of SEPTA’s R5 Main Line. Cholera arrived a short time later and within a few weeks all of Duffy’s workers were dead and secretly buried near

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25:13

LT James Hansell French and Victorio's Apache

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/06/04

ABC #051 - Part 4 LT James Hansell French was killed in the San Mateo Mountains of New Mexico territory in 1880 as the Buffalo Soldier troops under his command pursued the great Apache chief Victorio and his warriors.

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19:49

LT Jonathan Biddle Battles Chief Joseph and the Nez...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/06/04

ABC #051 - Part 5 Jonathan Williams Biddle, whose father Henry Biddle had been killed in the Civil War, lost his life in the Battle of Bear Paw, also in Montana, in 1877 against Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce.

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26:21

Lt Benjamin Hodgson at Little Big Horn (by Thomas Keels)

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/06/03

ABC #051 - Part 3 Benjamin Hubert Hodgson was killed during the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana against Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors – historian and fellow Laurel Hill tour guide Thomas Keels tells his story.

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36:07

LT George M Harris and Battling the Modocs in the...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/06/02

ABC #051 - Part 2 George Montgomery Harris died of wounds that he received in the Lava Beds of northern California while battling Captain Jack and the Modoc tribe in 1873.

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21:22

Philadelphia Meets the Indigenous Owners of the City

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/06/01

ABC #051 - Part 1 Indigenous peoples had been part of the Philadelphia landscape since the pre-Colonial days. Their dealings with William Penn and his family left them wondering.

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02:22:30

ABC#051: ”Killed by Indians” - Four Philadelphians...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/06/01

Interred at Laurel Hill East are four young Philadelphians who died before they reached the age of 30 while battling indigenous people on the frontier. George Montgomery Harris died of wounds received in the Lava Beds of northern California while battling Captain Jack and the Modoc tribe in 1873. Benjamin Hubert Hodgson was killed during the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana against Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors – fellow Laurel Hill tour guide Tom Keels tells his story. Jonathan Williams

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38:18

BBB#020: Helping Standardize the World - Charles...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/05/15

Charles Benjamin Dudley changed the world we live in when he helped establish the American Society for Testing and Materials. Prior to his work as a chemist with the Pennsylvania Railroad, there was no standardization for the composition of railroad tracks, which led to derailments, deaths, and loss of cargo. Dudley convinced the world that science combined with ingenuity is what all industries needed. Since its founding, ASTM has established more than 13,000 standards across hundreds of

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01:23:53

ABC #050: A Couple of Haunted Houses - Baleroy & Grey...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/05/01

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, including his younger brother, his mother, Thomas Jefferson, and a malevolent spirit named “Amanda” along with several others. 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

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BBB#019: A Forgotten Photography Pioneer - John Carbutt

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/04/15

John Carbutt is the forgotten pioneer of Philadelphia photography. Born in England, he spent the first years of his career as a railroad photographer in Canada and the American West. After settling in Mount Airy and opening a factory in Wayne Junction, Carbutt was the first person in the country to commercially produce dry photographic plates, the first to produce sheets of celluloid coated with photographic emulsion for making celluloid film, and the first to make commercially available dry

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36:05

Joseph Miller Huston: The State Capitol Fiasco

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/04/01

ABC #049 - Part 3 Joseph Miller Huston was an up-and-coming architect who got the plum job of designing Pennsylvania’s State Capitol; instead of leading him to even bigger jobs, it became his professional downfall.

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30:39

Edward "Gas" Addicks - Buying a Seat in the Senate

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/04/01

ABC #049 - Part 1 J. Edward "Gas" Addicks made his fortune in the gas industry, but decided he wanted to be a United States Senator; he spent much of his wealth in a fruitless attempt at achieving his goal.

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31:09

Samuel "Stars and Stripes" Ashbridge: Philadelphia's...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/04/01

ABC #049 - Part 2 Samuel "Stars and Stripes" Ashbridge would give a patriotic speech at the drop of a hat and was elected Philadelphia’s mayor in 1899; he left office four years later a rich man. Fellow tour guide and Philadelphia author and historian Thomas Keels tells you his story.

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01:50:35

ABC #049: White Collar Crime - J. Edward Addicks,...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/04/01

J. Edward "Gas" Addicks made his fortune in the gas industry, but decided he wanted to be a United States Senator; he spent much of his wealth in a fruitless attempt at achieving his goal. Samuel "Stars and Stripes" Ashbridge would give a patriotic speech at the drop of a hat and was elected Philadelphia’s mayor in 1899; he left office four years later a rich man. Fellow tour guide and Philadelphia author and historian Tom Keels tells you his story. Joseph Miller Huston was an up-and-coming

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56:03

BBB #018: Courage for the Deed, Grace for the Doing -...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/03/15

Three Quaker sisters – Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley – decided they wanted to start a school. Not another finishing school where girls learned to cook and crochet and behave in society, but a rigorous academic school specifically to train girls in languages and the sciences so they could get into Bryn Mawr and other colleges that were springing up for women in the late 19th century. In this podcast, you will learn about the evolution of girls’ education from before the founding of the

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24:31

Elizabeth Head Fetter: AKA Hannah Lees

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/03/04

ABC #048 - Part 3 Elizabeth Head Fetter, older sister to maverick inventor Howard Head, was writing under the pen name of Hannah Lees about topics like masturbation and women’s extra-marital affairs in the prudish 1940s, several years before the Kinsey Report was released.

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Dr. Sara Yorke Stevenson: Building the Penn Museum...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/03/03

ABC #048 - Part 2 Sara Yorke Stevenson was a self-trained Egyptologist, a founder of the Penn Museum, a leader in women’s rights, and a popular newspaper columnist who gained respect from colleagues around the world – her story is told by fellow Laurel Hill Cemetery docent Pat Rose.

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25:18

Dr. Nellie Neilson: Medievalist Extraordinaire

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/03/02

ABC #048 - Part 1 Dr. Nellie Neilson was one of the best – and best known – Medieval history scholars in the world, but she struggled to climb every rung to the top during her long career.

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ABC #048: Shattering Some Glass Ceilings - Nellie...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/03/01

March is Women’s History Month. Dr. Nellie Neilson was one of the best – and best known – Medieval history scholars in the world, but she struggled to climb every rung to the top during her long career. Sara Yorke Stevenson was a self-trained Egyptologist, a founder of the Penn Museum, a leader in women’s rights, and a popular newspaper columnist who gained respect from colleagues around the world – her story is told by fellow Laurel Hill Cemetery docent Pat Rose. Elizabeth Head Fetter, older

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51:51

BBB #017: Swimming While Black - Raphael & Julia Coel

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/02/14

Raphael Coel was a World War II veteran and insurance executive. His wife Julia was a lifelong swimmer who served as the first Black female lifeguard for the City of Philadelphia. They serve as an anchor for this month's "Biographical Bytes from Bala." If you are White, learn what it was like to attempt to “Swim While Black” in the United States. If you are Black, you already know.

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