All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #040: William Short, William Duane & William Drayton – I’m Just a Bill.  Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 1, Story 3

COL William Drayton was a Unionist from South Carolina and a veteran of the War of 1812.  His father, a Carolina plantation owner, exchanged dozens of letters with Jefferson on many topics, especially agriculture. 

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #040: William Short, William Duane & William Drayton – I’m Just a Bill.  Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 1, Story 2

William Duane was a radical and the publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora which helped get Jefferson elected President against Federalist John Adams in 1800. 

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #040: William Short, William Duane & William Drayton – I’m Just a Bill.  Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 1, Story 1

William Short received the first appointment to public office that was conferred under the Constitution of the United States.  Jefferson thought so much of Short that he happily called him “my adoptive son.”  

• William Short was the first appointment to public office conferred under the Constitution of the United States.  Thomas Jefferson thought so much of him that he happily called him "my adoptive son." 

Welcome to All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories podcast #040 for July 2022 - Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 1: I'm Just a Bill.  

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #009

Helen Bradford Thompson turned the understanding of gender roles on its head.  Her groundbreaking work at the turn of the 20th century, summarized in her PhD thesis "The Mental Traits of Sex," exploded on the psychology scene like nothing that had come before it.  And yet the name Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley was little remembered for decades, only recently being rediscovered because of the blossoming of feminist studies.  She is interred at Laurel Hill West. 

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Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #008

Loren Eiseley grew up in a troubled family on the plains of Nebraska and drifted across the American West on trains during the Great Depression.  Yet during his life he earned 36 honorary degrees and was one of the most respected researchers, educators, and writers in the country.  He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science, and the curator of the Early Man section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.  Like Henry David Thoreau, his writings on man and nature are treasured to this day.  When Eiseley died in 1977, many people felt as though they had lost a close personal friend, even if they never met him.  Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury remarked that he "is every writer's writer, and every human's human ... One of us, yet most uncommon ..."  

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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #038:  Through the Looking Glass – Some Lewis Carrol Connections, part 4

Charles Soulas has one of the more striking grave memorials - a woman who looks like she's ready to take your meal order.  Soulas ran a restaurant near city hall where local movers and shakers met over mock turtle soup.

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #038:  Through the Looking Glass – Some Lewis Carrol Connections, part 3

Arthur Burdett Frost was a highly respected Philadelphia illustrator and lithographer whom Lewis Carroll selected to provide illustrations for his poetry book Rhyme & Reason.  They had a falling out when Carroll requested some unusual photographs from Frost.  

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #038:  Through the Looking Glass – Some Lewis Carrol Connections, part 2

Morris Longstreth Parrish was a picky book collector.  Everything had to be perfect, enough so that some book dealers created a new category just for him - "Parrish condition".