Robert Taylor Conrad: Mayor and Playwright

Robert Taylor Conrad: Mayor and Playwright

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

ABC #063 - Part 3

Robert Taylor Conrad was a polymath whose writing was praised by Edgar Allen Poe and whose play Aylmere, or Jack Cade became another favorite of Edwin Forrest’s.  He also served as Mayor of Philadelphia at the time of consolidation.

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