All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories Podcast
1) Jacques Louis Francine: I Bombed Japan
Part 5 of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #078 Despite his very French name, Jacques Louis Francine was from a well-established Philadelphia family. HIs grandfather was a Union general, hi...Show More
2) Holger "Hold Your Horses" Hoiriis: Barnstorming, Crossing the Atlantic, and Fighting Nazis in the Catskills
Part 3 of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #078 In 1924, Danish-born Holger Hoiriis moved to the United States and bought an airplane. After barnstorming for a few years, he hitched up with...Show More
3) Philadelphia Fliers: Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Hobey Baker, Benjamin Lee II
Part 2 of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #078 Beer heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll was an early adaptor to flight and it is his Wright Brothers biplane that suspends from the ceiling of the ...Show More
4) Lincoln's Air Force: Defying Gravity in the 19th Century
Part 1 of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #078 The first American balloon flight took place from Philadelphia, as did the great balloon riot of 1819. Thaddeus Lowe, who has relatives at Laur...Show More
5) Look! Up in the Sky! Laurel Hill Pilots, part 1
Thaddeus Lowe is not buried at Laurel Hill, but has many connections there. He was an balloon aeronaut during the Civil War, thus father of the United States Air Force. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's fa...Show More
6) Sara Oberholtzer and Philadelphia Thrift
Biographical Bytes from Bala #057 for mid-August 2025 Sara Louisa Oberholtzer was a feminist, an abolitionist, and a temperance advocate who helped establish school bank accounts for millions of Ameri...Show More
7) Antoinette Westphal: Drexel Forever!
From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #077, Part 4 Antoinette Westphal was Drexel through and through. While a student there in the late 1950s, she captained both the field hockey and lacro...Show More
8) Joseph Wharton: The Law without Morals Is Useless
From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #077, part 3 Joseph Wharton was a Quaker businessman and philanthropist whose work is still felt throughout the city and the world. He was the primary ...Show More
9) Henry Biddle: Educating the Freedman
From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #077, part 2 Captain Henry Biddle was wounded in the Battle of Glendale and died a few weeks later after having befriended his treating physician. His wi...Show More
10) Charles Macalester: Inventing Glengarry & Torresdale
All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #077, Part 1 Charles Macalester established the town of Torresdale, founded Presbyterian Hospital, financially advised eight US presidents, and may have been ...Show More