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Back to SearchBG Henry Naglee: Civil War Hero, Famed Vintner, Scoundrel
Episode 408
ABC:LHS #076-5 Henry Naglee...
...was a West Point graduate who fought in Mexico, the West, and the Civil War. He took a liking to the West Coast …
1 year, 3 months ago
Louis Bossle: Best Rat Catcher in the Land
Episode 406
ABC:LHS #076-4 Rat Catcher Lou Bossle...
...was proud of his profession - it is even carved onto his Laurel Hill West tombstone. Twice in the 1890…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mabel Tinley, alias Lasca Vega, alias Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts
Episode 409
ABC:LHS #076-3 Mabel Tinley... (by Thomas Keels)
...was a Philadelphia-born con woman with a hypnotizing gaze who worked her way into New York Soci…
1 year, 3 months ago
MAJ Wakeman Griffin Gribbel: Unsuccessfully Dealing with the Aftermath of War
Episode 407
ABC:LHS #076-2 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...
...evolved from nostalgia and soldier's heart to shell shock and battle fatigue and the thousand …
1 year, 3 months ago
Morton McMichael Hoyt: 3rd Time's Not a Charm, Either
Episode 405
ABC:LHS #076-1 Morton McMichael Hoyt...
...was named for his great-grandfather the mayor. His sister, Elinor Wylie, was a famed poet and author. Be…
1 year, 3 months ago
A Handful of Eccentrics
Episode 410
ABC:LHS #076 Five people who really didn’t fit anywhere else.
Morton McMichael Hoyt married the same woman three times and once jumped off a steam…1 year, 3 months ago
Milton C. Work: America's Bridge Master
Episode 404
BBB:LHWS #045 Milton C. Work...
...was a Philadelphia lawyer who took up cards - specifically whist and bridge. Bridge clubs formed all over town, …
1 year, 3 months ago
Clarence Wiener: Laurel Hill's Baron Munchausen
Episode 399
ABC:LHS #075-5 Baron von Munchausen...
...was a German military man who traveled the country spreading his tales of wonder, which always featured …
1 year, 4 months ago
Princess Olga Demidoff Stoever: Princess with Attitude
Episode 400
ABC:LHS #075-4 Princess Olga Demidoff...
...was from one royal family and married into another, the house of Trubetskoy. She eventually married Ph…
1 year, 4 months ago
Marquis d'Esken de Frenoys & Baron Michael von Suttka
Episode 401
ABC:LHS #075-3 In Paris before the Great War...
...he was known as Roberto Carles Eskens, but acquired the title of “The Marquis D’Eskens de Freno…
1 year, 4 months ago