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Back to SearchPhiladelphia Fliers: Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Hobey Baker, Benjamin Lee II
Episode 420
ABC:LHS #078-2 The First Philadelphia Fliers
Beer heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll took to flight early; it is his Wright Brothers biplane that suspe…
1 year, 1 month ago
Lincoln's Air Force: Defying Gravity in the 19th Century
Episode 419
ABC:LHS #078-1 Thaddeus Lowe, who has relatives at Laurel Hill East, was the man who introduced the balloon to American warfare when he helped guid…
1 year, 1 month ago
Look! Up in the Sky! Laurel Hill Pilots (part 1)
Episode 424
ABC:LHS #078-0 Look! Up in the Sky!
Thaddeus Lowe is not buried at Laurel Hill, but has many connections there. He was an balloon aeronaut during …
1 year, 1 month ago
Sara Oberholtzer: Philadelphia Thrift
Episode 418
BBB:LHWS #057 Sara Louisa Oberholtzer...
...was a feminist, an abolitionist, and a temperance advocate who helped establish school bank accounts f…
1 year, 1 month ago
Antoinette Westphal: Drexel Forever!
Episode 414
ABC:LHS #077-4 Antoinette Westphal...
...was a Dragon through and through. While a student in the late 1950s, she captained both field hockey and …
1 year, 2 months ago
Joseph Wharton: The Law without Morals Is Useless
Episode 413
ABC:LHS #077-3 Joseph Wharton...
...was a Quaker businessman and philanthropist and the primary founder of Swarthmore College. Fisher Park in nort…
1 year, 2 months ago
Henry Biddle: Educating the Freedman
Episode 415
ABC:LHS #077-2 Captain Henry Biddle...
...was wounded in the Battle of Glendale and died a few weeks later after having befriended his treating ph…
1 year, 2 months ago
Charles Macalester: Inventing Glengarry & Torresdale
Episode 417
ABC:LHS #077-1 Charles Macalester...
...established the town of Torresdale, founded Presbyterian Hospital, financially advised eight US presidents…
1 year, 2 months ago
Some College Namesakes (part 1)
Episode 416
ABC:LHS #077 College Namesakes (part 1)
Charles Macalester made a contribution that helped to turn a small liberal arts school into one of the fin…1 year, 2 months ago
Robert A. Groff, MD: Cutting Brain
Episode 412
BBB:LHWS #046 Psychosurgery...
...dates back to the Neolithic period but became more prominent in the 19th and 20th centuries. For about 30 years i…
1 year, 2 months ago