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Back to EpisodesHappy 200th Birthday to Five Laurel Hill Residents
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ABC:LHS #082-0 Happy 2026 200th birthday to...
...Martha Coston, who used her husband's notes and reputation to invent airborne signal flares that saved thousands of lives.
...Henry Hagert, assistant District Attorney when he unsuccessfully prosecuted a man for the murder of Civil Rights Activist Octavius V. Catto.
...Daniel Pabst, the finest cabinetmaker in town; people waited years for him to create their household masterpieces, many of which are today in museums.
...Dr. Thomas Hewson Bache, co-founder of Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, curator at the Mütter Museum, and battlefield surgeon at Gettysburg.
...Samuel Frankenfield, German immigrant carpenter who discovered there was money to be made as a coffin builder and successfully switched professions from carpenter to mortician.