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ABC:LHS #080   First City Troop, Philadelphia...

...celebrated its semiquincentennial before the country did.

• Part 1: brief history of the Troop's First 150 years
• Part 2: Fairman Rogers, the finest coach driver in the land, was painted by Thomas Eakins
• Part 3: Archibald Loudon Snowden was a late-19th century polymath, an expert in coin minting, the postal service, fire insurance, and Fairmount Park in addition to his years as a captain of the troop
• Part 4: Joseph Lapsley Wilson quietly developed one of the finest arboretums in the country which continued under the care of Dr. Albert C. Barnes
• Part 5: Hugh Craig, Jr. was the grease that kept the troop moving and the glue that kept it together for more than 30 years, yet he lay in an unmarked grave at Laurel Hill East for more than a century.