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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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22:24

BBB #001: Alan Calvert and the Science of Weightlifting

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/10/13

Alan Calvert was a Philadelphia body-builder who found that available equipment did not meet his needs, so he invented what we now recognize as the modern bar-bell and the science of progressive resistance. His innovations have now become a standard around the world.

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01:09:42

ABC #031: Play Ball!, Part 2

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/09/23

Wes “The Icicle” Fisler scored the first run in major league history but lay in an unmarked grave at Laurel Hill for more than 90 years. Lon Knight threw the first pitch in major league history, yet still has an unmarked grave. Harry Luff was an awful human being who nonetheless played eight positions for six different teams in four major leagues before finally doing jail time. And Orator Shafer was confined to right field because of his constant chatter but he still holds the Major League Record

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59:57

ABC #030: The Saturday Courier: Joseph Clay Neal,...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/08/25

Joseph Clay Neal, whom many called “the American Dickens,” started his writing career with an evening newspaper “The Daily Courier,” and ended up fostering the career of a teenage girl who became one of the primary woman authors of the 19th century. Louis Antoine Godey, whose “Lady’s Book” was struggling until he had the good sense to hire an Episcopalian woman from Boston as his editor, and turned his magazine into one of the most widely circulated in the country. And Morton McMichael, who was

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01:02:51

ABC #029: Olympiad II - Paris 1900

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/07/23

Future Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill residents went to Paris in 1900 to compete in Olympiad II. Meredith Colket was a Penn scholar who placed 2nd in the pole vault. Bascom Johnson was a Yale pole vaulter who failed to compete, but went on to an amazing career in public health. Edward Bushnell was a middle-distance runner whose name eventually became synonymous with sports at the University of Pennsylvania. John F. Cregan was another middle-distance man but from Princeton. And rower James

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01:39:39

ABC #028: Bad Science: Dr. Samuel G. Morton, George...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/06/23

Dr. Samuel George Morton was a pioneer of American anthropology and the father of American invertebrate paleontology, but he was also a compulsive skull collector whose measurements and conclusions were used to justify enslavement and eventually racial cleansing. George Robbins Gliddon taught Americans more about ancient Egypt than anyone up to his time, but he got caught up in Morton’s scientific racism, as well as the thrill of robbing graves for their heads and mummified remains. James Ernst

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01:12:20

ABC #027: Fathers (and Mothers) of American Medicine,...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/05/25

Charles Euchariste de Medici Sajous was a prolific author and editor who specialized in "glandular secretions;" he is remembered today as the Father of American Endocrinology ... and the last of the de Medicis. Chevalier Quixote Jackson mastered the skill of retrieving foreign bodies from the lungs and esophagus; he is the Father of American Endoscopy. Hilary Koprowski was a Polish-born virologist who beat Salk and Sabin to the development of an effective polio vaccine, but who is little

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58:11

ABC #026: Encore! - William Wood, Mary Ann Lee, Frank...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/04/22

William Wood started as an actor but soon moved to managing Philadelphia theaters. Many people consider Mary Ann Lee to be America’s first professional ballerina. Frank Mayo was an actor who became beloved through more than 3000 performances as Davy Crockett. And Wedgwood Nowell produced or acted in more than 300 plays before moving to Hollywood and acting in more than 300 movies over his long career. William Wood and Mary Ann Lee are interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery, while Frank Mayo and

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01:08:16

ABC #025: Five Wister Men You May Not Know

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/03/24

It is very easy to get lost in the Wister family. Anyone familiar with Philadelphia History probably knows about Caspar Wistar, who founded the Wistar Institute, and author Owen Wister, who wrote the first Western novel “The Virginian” and is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery. But this was a large family. There are 40 Wisters and 30 Wistars buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, along with 3 Wisters at West Laurel Hill. Today I am going to talk about four Wister brothers and one of their sons buried at

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57:16

ABC #024: Four Remarkable Women You Should Know

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/02/22

Christine Wetherill Stevenson came from a prominent family and made her mark in Philadelphia, where she founded the Philadelphia Art Alliance, as well as California, where she founded the Hollywood Bowl. Katharine Elizabeth McBride was a brilliant researcher in neuropsychology, but is mostly remembered today for being president of Bryn Mawr College for 28 years and bringing it into recognition as one of the top institutions in the nation. Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen came from a family of

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ABC022, part 4: Teddy Pendergrass and the Soul of...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/02/05

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #022, Part 4 - Teddy Pendergrass and the Soul of Philadelphia Theodore "Teddy" Pendergrass started as a drummer and background singer with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, but his distinctive voice soon earned him a solo contract and he became one of the biggest selling artists in history. A car crash cut his career painfully short.

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ABC022, Part 3: Grover Washington Jr.: Taking the...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/02/04

Grover Washington Jr. was from Buffalo, New York, where he started playing local clubs as a teenager. After going through his Coltrane phase, he settled back into a warmer, friendlier sound that developed into "smooth jazz". His horn became the Sound of Philadelphia. He died far too young.

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ABC022, Part 2: Billy Paul, Mrs. Jones, & The...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/02/03

Paul Williams needed a new professional name, so he chose "Billy Paul." He was a popular local performer and was one of the first acts signed to the new Philadelphia International label. His biggest hit "Me and Mrs. Jones" was inescapable on the radio for months in 1972.

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ABC023, Part 1: Hy Lit and the Philadelphia Sound

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/02/02

Hyman "Hy" Lit was a voice known to every Philadelphian during his 50 years on the air, mostly during the 1950s and 60s as on of the WIBG "Good Guys", when he drew an otherworldly market share of '70'. His style was unforgettable.

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01:11:59

ABC #023: The Philadelphia Sound - Hy Lit, Billy...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/01/25

One of the highwater marks of Philadelphia music was in the 1970s when Gamble and Huff started Philadelphia International Music and stole thunder from both Motown and Memphis. Two of their biggest stars were Billy Paul and Teddy Pendergrass. Another Philadelphian, Grover Washington Jr., became one of the top-selling jazz artists in history and is credited with laying the groundwork for what became known as “smooth jazz.” And where did you hear the latest sounds? On the radio, of course, where Hy

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01:14:33

ABC #022: The Birds and the Bees - Ornithologists and...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2020/12/25

East coast birdwatchers probably can tell you famed Philadelphians involved in birding. John Cassin described 194 new species of birds in his lifetime and has five species of North American birds named in his honor Titian Ramsay Peale, son of Charles Willson Peale was a meticulous illustrator of wildlife whose artworks are as highly sought as those of John James Audubon Titian’s older and less-well-known half-sister Sophonisba Angusciola (Peale) Sellers was America’s first female

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01:29:49

ABC #021: Me and My Machine - Three Textile Barons of...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2020/11/25

While the textile business in the United States started in New England, it did not take Philadelphia long to catch up and pass our northern neighbors. Three people who immigrated to Manayunk helped build what had been a small village into one of the major manufacturing centers of the country. Joseph Ripka was a draft dodger from Silesia who at his peak employed 2000 men, women, and children in his mills, but went out of business at the start of the Civil War. Sevill Schofield came from England

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ABC #020: Send the Marines!

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2020/10/23

The United States Marine Corps was born in Philadelphia on November 10, 1775 and the city is the burial site for many famed members of the Corps. Major Levi Twiggs was born in Georgia in a military family; he joined the Marines when he was 19 and made the Marine Barracks at Philadelphia Naval Yards his home for many years before heading off to fight in the Mexican-American War. Brigadier General Jacob Zeilin was born in Philadelphia and spent 45 years as a Marine Corps officer, culminating in

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01:08:26

ABC #019: The Other Side of Paradise - Sigourney Fay,...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2020/09/24

You might think that F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Midwesterner who made his name in New York City, would have no Philadelphia connections. You would be wrong. Sigourney Webster Fay was born in Philadelphia to an old-line Episcopalian family, but left that religion to become a Catholic priest; he was the most important influence in the life of the schoolboy F. Scott Fitzgerald and the inspiration for one of his most widely-loved characters in This Side of Paradise. While Fitzgerald matriculated at

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01:05:28

ABC #018: The Calder Connection - Alexander Milne &...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2020/08/22

Alexander Milne Calder was a Scottish-born sculptor who came to Philadelphia and was given the commission for statuary for the City Hall. He managed to squeeze in a monument for the Warner Family at Laurel Hill Cemetery that is probably the most photographed grave site on the property. His son Alexander Stirling Calder is best remembered for Swann Fountain on Logan Circle, but he was also commissioned to do the statue for the grave of famed historian Henry Charles Lea, also at Laurel Hill. The

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ABC #017: Fathers of American Medicine, Part 1

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2020/07/23

Robley Dunglison was born and educated in England but recruited to be the first Professor of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia, where he also became Jefferson’s private physician. Later he moved to Philadelphia and was recognized as the Father of American Physiology. Constantine Hering was born and educated in Germany and learned the homeopathic methods of fellow countryman Samuel Hahnemann; he brought these beliefs with him to Philadelphia and is considered the Father of

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