BBB #014: Bushrod Washington James: Physician, Author, Philanthropist

BBB #014: Bushrod Washington James: Physician, Author, Philanthropist

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

What do baseball Hall-of-Famers Frank Robinson and Willie Stargell, a library in Northeast Philadelphia, the towns of Radnor and Pottstown, Pennsylvania, a bed and breakfast in Tennessee, and the Wills Eye Hospital have in common?  The thread that connects these disparate entities is Bushrod Washington James, a Philadelphia physician and philanthropist who is interred at Laurel Hill West.  Find out why his name is quietly known across the country in this month's edition of Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories.

 

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