All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Mar 05 2025 150 ep. 42 mins 47

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Tales for taphophiles of permanent residents of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia and West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.

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Katherine Rotan Drinker and The Radium Girls (encore)

Mar 05 2025 17 mins

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072, segment 5 A 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.

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

Mar 04 2025 21 mins

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

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

Mar 03 2025 21 mins

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

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

Mar 02 2025 23 mins

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.

Founding the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania

Mar 01 2025 13 mins

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072, segment 1 With 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.

ABC072 Women's Medical College: Some Selected Stories

Feb 28 2025 117 mins

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072 gives you a condensed history of Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. The entire podcast is available on March 1st. Each segment will be released as an individual recording in the days that follow. First, I will tell you about the founding of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1850. Second, I will talk about William

John W. Forney: Gadfly, Chameleon, Provocateur

Feb 14 2025 28 mins

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #041 John W. Forney was a publisher, a politician, a railroad agent, and the only person to serve as both Clerk of the US House and Secretary of the US Senate. Abraham Lincoln befriended the man, but political enemies called Forney "Lincoln's dog." Andrew Johnson drank to excess at Forney’s Stag party the night before he was

Jack Jones: Pioneering TV Anchor

Feb 04 2025 19 mins

ABC#071, segment 4 John Claver "Jack" Jones was a Philadelphian through-and-through - West Catholic High School, La Salle University. He was befriended by TV announcer John Facenda who got him hired at a local TV station. Jack rose to be evening anchor but died far too young.

Judge Doris May Harris: Pioneer in Children's Court

Feb 03 2025 18 mins

All Bones Considered #071, segment 3 Doris May Harris was a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University who was the third Black woman to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to a long and distinguished career on the bench and introduced novel approaches to the punishment and rehabilitation of teen offenders.

Florence DaVida Johnson-Reid: Reaching a Pinnacle in Black Education

Feb 02 2025 18 mins

ABC#071, segment 2 Florence daVida "Videe" Howard Johnson-Reid steadily worked her way up the ladder of education until she was Dean of Graduate Studies at Cheyney University, whose history dates back to 1837 and the Institute for Colored Youth. Learn about the evolution of education for Philadelphia's African American citizens and more.