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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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25:13

Douglas "Jocko" Henderson: Rap and Hip-Hop Pioneer

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/02/04

ABC #047 - Part 3 Douglas “Jocko” Henderson was one of the top deejays on the East Coast, introduced Little Stevie Wonder to the Apollo Theater audience, and is considered by many to be the first “Rap MC” from Philadelphia.

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18:29

Barbara Blackshear: Pioneering Computer Genius

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/02/03

ABC #047 - Part 2 Barbara Blackshear rose from working as a “computer” who helped produce the legendary Xerox 8010 “Star” to become vice-president of strategic planning for the company.

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21:30

Dr. James Batts: Hero to Black Mothers and Babies

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/02/02

ABC #047 - Part 1 Dr. James Alexander Batts was an early champion of improving prenatal care for Philadelphia’s African American population.

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01:19:27

ABC #047: Three More Black Trailblazers - Dr. James...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/02/01

February is Black History Month. All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories gives you Three More Black Trailblazers. Dr. James Alexander Batts was an early champion of improving prenatal care for Philadelphia’s African American population. Barbara Blackshear rose from working as a “computer” and helping produce the legendary Xerox 8010 “Star” to become vice-president of strategic planning for the company. Douglas “Jocko” Henderson was one of the top deejays on the East Coast, introduced Little

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36:50

BBB #016: A Cult of One’s Own - J. Elimar Mira Mitta

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/01/14

Anna Meister was a Swiss immigrant in the 1850s who declared she was actually the third person of the Christian trinity and changed her name to Jehovah Elimar Mira Mitta. She had a following for many decades, even years after she died. Today you will hear the story of this bizarre religious cult from South Philadelphia on Biographical Bytes from Bala: J. Elimar Mira Mitta: A Cult of One’s Own.

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18:28

Dr. Sam Hamill: Experimenting on Orphans

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/01/04

All Bones Considered #046, Part 3 Dr. Samuel McClintock Hamill was one of the most prominent pediatricians in the country, but early in his career he had conducted controversial experiments on orphans and abandoned children, some of whom were left with permanently damaged eyesight.

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20:37

Dr. William Henry Pancoast: Impregnation without...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/01/03

All Bones Considered #046 - Part 2 Dr. William Henry Pancoast was a famed surgeon who performed the post-mortem examination on the 19th century conjoined twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, the original “Siamese” twins. The same year he artificially impregnated a woman who had a sterile husband, but without her knowledge or permission.

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21:50

Dr. George McClellan: An Expelled Founder

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/01/02

All Bones Considered #046, Part 1 Dr. George McClellan, father of the famed Civil War Union general, was founder of Thomas Jefferson medical school, but annoyed his colleagues so much he was expelled from the board of the school he had created.

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01:16:58

ABC #046: Fathers of American Medicine, Part 3 - Some...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/31

Dr. George McClellan, father of the famed Civil War Union general, was founder of Thomas Jefferson medical school, but annoyed his colleagues so much he was expelled from the board of the school he had created. Dr. William Henry Pancoast was a famed surgeon who performed the post-mortem examination on the 19th century conjoined twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, the original “Siamese” twins. The same year he artificially impregnated a woman who had a sterile husband, but without her knowledge or

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20:37

Larry Ferrari: Everyone's Sunday Morning Friend

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/18

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #015 - Pulling Out All the Stops - The Organ Episode Part 3: Larry Ferrari Lazarus "Larry" Ferrari was a fixture on Philadelphia's Sunday morning television screens for decades. Anyone who encountered him had essentially the same thought: "What a nice man!".

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13:10

The Curtis Organ in the Irvine Auditorium

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/17

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #015 - Pulling Out All the Stops - The Organ Episode Part 2: The Curtis Organ The story of the Irvine Auditorium is very straightforward, but campus legends have given a certain mystical pique to this Gothic structure, and the organ donated by Cyrus H.K. Curtis has only added to its mystique.

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11:44

The Magnificent Wanamaker Organ

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/16

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #015 - Pulling Out All the Stops - The Organ Episode Part 1: The Wanamaker Organ The world's largest playable organ is in the Wanamaker Building next to City Hall. It contains a staggering 28,750 pipes in 464 ranks controlled by 6 manuals. Free concerts are offered twice daily to any who wish to listen.

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01:09:08

BBB #015: Pulling Out All the Stops - The Laurel Hill...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/14

The largest playable musical instrument in the world sits in Center City Philadelphia, and there are several Laurel Hill connections. William B. Irvine left his estate to the University of Pennsylvania but did not know they would use it to build an auditorium named for him, designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. The magazine publisher Cyrus Curtis donated an organ. All three of these men are at Laurel Hill West. For more than 40 years, organist Larry Ferrari kept Philadelphians company on

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39:54

Henrietta Garrett: A Clueless Snuff Multi-Millionaire

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/05

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #045: Stogies, Coffin Nails & Spittoons, part 4 Henrietta Garrett married into millions. Snuff manufacturer Walter Garrett fell in love with Henrietta on first meeting, even though they were from opposite side of the tracks. The marriage was strong and Walter's death left her a very rich widow. Years later when Henrietta died, nobody could find her will. "Long lost relatives" appeared out of nowhere. It took years to settle the estate.

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16:36

Caleb Milne: "There Is No Fire!" Chaos on the Work Floor

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/04

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #045: Stogies, Coffin Nails & Spittoons, part 3 Caleb Milne was a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in textiles. He rented a floor to a cigar maker, who had a habit of hiring immigrant girls who spoke no English. A fire "false alarm" panicked the girls, who stampeded the stairwells. Many died.

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11:48

Otto Eisenlohr & The Five Cent Cigar

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/03

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #045: Stogies, Coffin Nails & Spittoons, part 2 Otto Eisenlohr and his brother were German immigrants who learned the tobacco business. Their 5-cent cigar 'Cinco' was sold at every cigar stand in the country, and they got quite rich.

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08:59

Juan Portuondo and a Good Cuban Smoke

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/12/02

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #045: Stogies, Coffin Nails & Spittoons, part 1 Juan Portuondo was a Cuban immigrant who learned the craft of cigar making from his father. His cigars were always of the highest quality and he was constantly swatting away competition that tried to take advantage of his name.

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01:42:27

ABC #045 Stogies, Coffin Nails, and Spittoons: Laurel...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/11/23

At one time, there were more than 900 cigar makers in Philadelphia who made a sizable portion of the 7 billion cigars sold every year in the United States. Cuban native Joan Portuondo featured a top-quality cigar that was copied by many. German American Otto Eisenlohr and his brothers made one of the bestselling fiver-centers in the country, the ubiquitous 'Cinco'. Caleb J. Milne rented three floors of his Washington Avenue factory to a cigar company that illegally hired immigrant girls; a fire

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34:43

BBB #014: Physician, Author, Philanthropist - Bushrod...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/11/11

What do baseball Hall-of-Famers Frank Robinson and Willie Stargell, a library in Northeast Philadelphia, the towns of Radnor and Pottstown, Pennsylvania, a bed and breakfast in Tennessee, and the Wills Eye Hospital have in common? The thread that connects these disparate entities is Bushrod Washington James, a Philadelphia physician and philanthropist who is interred at Laurel Hill West. Find out why his name is quietly known across the country in this month's edition of Biographical Bytes from

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11:12

The Garfield Memorial on East River (Kelly) Drive

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/11/05

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #044 - Sam Randall, Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, Dr. C.K. Mills, and the Garfield Memorial: Laurel Hill & Some James Garfield Connections, part 4 Many familiar names from Laurel Hill were involved in the design, construction, and dedication of the memorial to the assassinated President that was dedicated in 1896 - 15 years after the assassination.

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