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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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10:56

Philadelphia and the Great War

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/05/02

Excerpt from All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #074, part 1 The United States tried to stay out of the European conflict that started in 1914 but eventually joined the fray. Philadelphia, "The Workshop of the World," provided doughboys with blankets, footwear, and head gear. By the time the US Congress declared war in April, 1917, hundreds of Americans had already been fighting, and many had died, the first of more than 125,000 Americans to die, including 1400 Philadelphians, in what many

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02:00:13

The Killing Fields of France, Part 1: Dillwyn Parrish...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/05/01

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #074 The United States was dragged into a war that it seemed nobody wanted, but that was inevitable anyway. Philadelphia produced massive amounts of materials for the American doughboys. 1LT Dillwyn Parrish Starr was impatient for action. He joined Britain’s esteemed Coldstream Guard and was readily accepted by them. He was killed at the Battle of the Somme before the United States even got officially involved. CPT Alan Wood Lukens came from two families

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38:48

Timothee Adamowski: The Idol of the Boston Pops

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2025/04/15

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #043Polish born violinist Timothee Adamowski was soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for many years and served as one of the first conductors of the Boston Pops Orchestra. For many years his name was romantically linked with that of famed Australian soprano Nellie Melba, but he surprised everyone when he married Gertrude Pancoast of a famed Philadelphia medical family. Timothee is interred in the Pancoast family plot at LHW.

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41:27

ADM George W. Melville: The Doomed Jeannette Expedition

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/04/06

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #073, part 5George W. Melville was the MacGyver of his day, seemingly creating something out of nothing when the situation called for it. As an engineer he was unsurpassed. He was one of only a few survivors of the ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by the ship Jeannette, captained by George DeLong. He then went back to recover the bodies of those who had been left behind. He has a statue at the Naval Yard and was twice painted by Thomas

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27:00

Admiral Sylvanus Godon: Hanging "Lucky Nat" Gordon

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/04/05

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #073, part 5 Admiral Sylvanus William Godon spent his life in the Navy. The high point was probably the capture of the USS Erie with its cargo of 897 enslaved Africans. The captain of that ship, Nathaniel "Lucky Nat" Gordon, went to the gallows for his crime.

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24:45

Commodore David Conner: Amphibious Landing at Vera Cruz

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/04/04

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #073, part 4 Commodore David Conner was responsible for the successful amphibious landing of 12,000 men at Vera Cruz during the Mexican American War. His presentation sword and two medals are on display in the Cincinnati Room of the Hill - Physick - Keith House, along with a fine portrait.

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29:30

Isaac Hull and Old Ironsides

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/04/03

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #073, part 2 Isaac Hull was a lifelong sailor from a family of sailors. He is best remembered today for being commander of the USS Constitution when it captured HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. Fellow tour guise Russell Dodge wrote this script and the life of this great seaman.

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16:30

Introduction to the 19th Century US Navy

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/04/02

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #073, part 1 The United States tried very hard to not have a Navy. It wasn't until the early 19th century that congress realized the need for a fighting force on the water. Capture of American merchant ships by the Barbary pirates and corsairs with letters of marque forced congress to release funds to fortify the Navy. Eventually the United States Navy was second only to the Royal Navy of England. Commodore Isaac Hull was captain of the USS

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02:43:53

Four Naval Heroes: Isaac Hull, David Conner, Sylvanus...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/04/01

Isaac Hull led USS Constitution to victory against HMS Guerriere in the early days of the War of 1812. Fellow tour guide Russ Dodge wrote this script but declined the opportunity to narrate it. David Conner worked with Winfield Scott to arrange the largest amphibious assault of the 19th century at Vera Cruz during the Mexican American War. While serving in the African Squadron, Sylvanus Godon captured the slave ship Erie, which led to the return of nearly 900 Africans to their home continent, and

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10:28

Dorothy Burr Thompson & Pamela Burr: Prides of Bryn...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/20

Biographical Bytes from Bala #042, section 5Dorothy Burr Thompson ("DBT") was acknowledged as one of the best archeologists of her day. Her work of Hellenistic terra cottas has never been surpassed. Her younger sister Pamela Burr wrote a play while at Bryn Mawr that featured her classmate, Katharine Hepburn.

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10:08

Anna Robeson Brown Burr: Prodigious Author

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/19

Biographical Bytes from Bala #042, section 4 Anna Robeson Burr Brown was an American writer of novels, poetry, stories, essays, and biographies. Her The Autobiography: A Critical and Comparative Study (1909), was the first book on the subject.

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11:26

Henry Armitt Brown: The Finest Orator of His Generation

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/18

Biographical Bytes from Bala #042, section 3 Henry Armitt Brown became the finest orator of his generation, frequently compared to Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. His life was cut short only weeks after his greatest triumph.

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16:02

Frederick Brown: Druggist and Cemetery Co-Founder

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/17

Biographical Bytes from Bala #042, section 2 Frederick Brown was a very successful druggist and a founder of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. When his friend John Jay Smith invited him to be a founder at Laurel Hill Cemetery, he accepted the offer.

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04:19

Charles Brockden Brown: America's First Major Novelist

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/16

Biographical Bytes from Bala #042, section 1 Charles Brockden Brown is regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. His best-known works include Wieland and Edgar Huntly, both of which display his characteristic interest in Gothic themes. His works heavily influenced both Mary Bysshe Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe.

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01:09:09

Five Generations at Laurel Hill

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/15

Charles Brockden Brown was American’s first successful novelist. his influence on Edgar Allen Poe was immeasurable. He has a cenotaph in the South section of Laurel Hill East. Charles' nephew Frederick Brown was a successful druggist because of his ginger root-based nostrums. He was also one of four co-founders of Laurel Hill Cemetery. Frederick's son Henry Armitt Brown was considered the best orator of his generation and often compared to Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. Henry's daughter Anna

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17:26

Katherine Rotan Drinker and The Radium Girls (encore)

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/06

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072, segment 5A slight reworking of an earlier podcast about Cecil Kent Drinker, MD, (All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #041) now features his wife Katherine Rotan Drinker, MD, as they take on the investigation of "jaw rot" among young women who had worked as painters of luminescent watch dials.

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21:26

Sarah Logan Wister Starr: The Iron Fist Who Saved the...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/05

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072, segment 4 By 1921, Women's Medical College was on the verge of failure. The new president Sarah Logan Wister Starr was a master fundraiser who treated Women's Medical School and its hospital as her private philanthropic project. She did save the school, but she infuriated both faculty and student body when she fired the popular professor of obstetrics and gynecology Alice Weld Tallant.

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21:20

Charlotte Yhlen & Marie K. Formad: Strangers in a...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/04

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072 - Segment 3 In the mid-19th century, women from around the world flocked to Philadelphia in order to become physicians. Everyone has seen the Frederick Gutekunst photo of three medical students from India, Japan, and Syria. Charlotte Yhlen came from Sweden and became the first Scandinavian-born woman physician but couldn't get work in her home country so returned to the United States. Marie K. Formad was from Russia. She became one of the premiere

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23:00

William J. Mullen: The Prisoner's Friend and Female...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/03

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072, segment 2 William J. Mullen was the first President of Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. He is remembered for his tireless philanthropic work among inmates at Moyamensing Prison and for his over-the-top grave marker in the south section of Laurel Hill East.

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13:50

Founding the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/03/02

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072, segment 1With the help of several Quaker philanthropists, a medical school for women was chartered in 1850. Through the courage and strength of the founders and early graduates, it slowly grew into a respected medical school whose memory lives today through the Drexel University School of Medicine.

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