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Happy 200th Birthdays!
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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #070 - Happy 200th Birthdays!
Thomas Craycroft was a medical student who volunteered to help in the1855 Yellow Fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia. He was one of 15 Philadelphians who died during that mission of mercy but whose remains are now interred under the Yellow Fever monument at Laurel Hill East.
Edwin Henry Fitler made his fortune in rope at a time when Philadelphia had one of the busiest shipyards in the country. He was the first Philadelphia mayor to establish his office at City Hall in the years it was being completed. Fitler is namesake for Fitler Square and his obelisk is the tallest at Laurel Hill East.
Laura Matilda Towne was an abolitionist who studied homeopathic medicine and became an instructor for recently freed enslaved Africans on the islands off South Carolina. It turned into her life’s work for the next 30+ years.
John Roh was an inpatient at the Blockley Almshouse in 1885 when a fire raced through his wing, killing more than a score of male psychiatric patients who were locked in their cells. John Roh was one of the victims of that tragedy, and we’re pretty sure he is interred in the family lot at Laurel Hill East.
Henry Charles Lea was a publisher, researcher, and author, who wrote the definitive history of the Spanish Inquisition. His grave marker was sculpted by Alexander Stirling Calder and is one of the most photographed monuments on the property.
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