Biddle family

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:For Template:Infobox family The Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681. Quakers, they had emigrated from England in part to escape religious persecution. Having acquired extensive rights to more than Template:Convert of lands in West Jersey, they settled first at Burlington, a city which developed along the east side of the Delaware River.<ref name="Jordan2004"/>

William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756), and John Biddle (1707–1789), two third-generation brothers, moved from Mount Hope (now Kinkora, near Bordentown, also on the east side of the Delaware), to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1720s and 1730s. They constituted the first generation of the Philadelphia Biddle family, which became involved in the business, political and cultural life of Pennsylvania and the United States.<ref name="Jordan2004">Template:Cite book</ref>

Family members

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Nicholas Biddle who served as the third and last president of Second Bank of the United States

Branch of William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756) and Mary Scull (1709–1789)

• William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756) and Mary Scull (1709–1790)
  • James Biddle (1731–1797), prothonotary of Philadelphia courts, married Frances Marks
    • Template:Tree list/final branchMarks John Biddle (1765–1849), married Jane Dundas, niece of Major-General Ralph Dundas and first cousin of Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby (ancestor of the Barons Abercromby), General Sir Robert Abercromby, and Lord Abercromby<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Lydia Biddle (1734–1767), married William McFunn (?–1768), captain in the Royal Navy and Governor of the Island of Antigua, West Indies
    • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam McFunn Biddle (1764–1809), married Lydia Spencer (1766–1858), daughter of Elihu Spencer, niece of John Berrien and sister-in-law of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant
      • Template:Tree list/final branchLydia Spencer Biddle (1797–1871), married Samuel Baird (1786–1833)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchSpencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887), first U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries and second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, married Mary Helen Churchill (1846–?)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchMary Deborah Baird (1829–1900), endowed Biddle University, married distant cousin Henry Jonathan Biddle (1817–1862) who was a grandson of Clement Biddle
      • Template:Tree list/final branchValeria Fullerton Biddle, married her cousin Charles Bingham Penrose (1798–1857), Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate, Solicitor of the United States Treasury, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (as below)
      • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam McFunn Biddle, Jr., married Julian Montgomery
      • Template:Tree list/final branchMary Elizabeth Dagworthy Biddle (1805–1879), married Maj. George Blaney (1795–1835), captain with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
      • Template:Tree list/final branchEdward Biddle, married Julia H. Watts
        • Template:Tree list/final branchDavid W. Biddle
        • Template:Tree list/final branchLydia Spencer Biddle,
        • Template:Tree list/final branchCharles Penrose Biddle
        • Template:Tree list/final branchFrederick W. Biddle
        • Template:Tree list/final branchEdward William Biddle (1852–1931), married Gertrude Dale Bosler<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
          • Template:Tree list/final branchHerman Bosler Biddle (1883–1909)
          • Template:Tree list/final branchEdward MacFunn Biddle (1886–1950) married 1) Anna Hope Dale and 2) Mary, Countess de Borchgrave d'Altena (née Robinson)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam McFunn Biddle
  • John "Jacky" Biddle (1736–?) married Sophia Boone
    • Edward Biddle, bought Biddle House on Mackinac Island
    • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam Biddle married Abigail Johnson
      • Template:Tree list/final branchJoseph Cadwalader Biddle (1805–1884) married Elizabeth Cook (died 1899)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
        • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam Biddle married Anna W.?
          • Template:Tree list/final branchFrederick Davis Biddle married Estelle Warne Harbeson
            • Template:Tree list/final branchEric Harbeson Biddle (1898–1993), businessman and diplomat, assisted Franklin D. Roosevelt during the creation of the United Nations<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and the United Nations Establishment Commissions<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book Interviewed 1987–1988 by Harriet Nathan</ref> (married Katherine Rogers, the daughter of Colonel John I. Rogers).
              • Eric Harbeson Biddle Jr. (1928–2012), CIA Section Chief, later immigration lawyer<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
              • John "Jack" Biddle
              • Template:Tree list/final branchMaurice R. Biddle (1932–1999), jazz composer and pianist, also advertising executive in Philadelphia and New York City
  • Edward Biddle (1738–1779), lawyer, soldier, delegate to the Continental Congress,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> married Elizabeth Ross (sister of George Ross)
  • Charles Biddle (1745–1821), politician and Vice President of the Supreme Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, married Hannah Shepard
    • James Biddle (1783–1848), US Navy Commodore
    • Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844), president of the Second Bank of the United States, married Jane Craig
      • Edward Biddle (1815–1873), married Jane Josephine Sarmiento
        • Template:Tree list/final branchEdward Biddle III (1851–1933), married Emilie Taylor Drexel (1851–1883) daughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel
          • Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (1874–1948), subject of novel (written by his daughter), which was adapted as the Broadway play and Disney motion picture The Happiest Millionaire
            • Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1897–1961), U.S. ambassador to seven different countries, married Mary Duke (1887–1960), the sister of Angier Buchanan Duke
              • Mary Duke Biddle (1920–2012), heiress and philanthropist
              • Nicholas Duke Biddle (1921–2004)
            • Cordelia Drexel Biddle (1898–1984), married Angier Buchanan Duke (1884–1923), the brother of Mary Duke
              • Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995), U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador 1952–1953, U.S. Ambassador to Spain 1965–1968, U.S. Ambassador to Morocco 1979–1981, member of the Council on Foreign Relations<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
              • Template:Tree list/final branchAnthony Drexel Duke (1918–2014)
            • Template:Tree list/final branchLivingston Ludlow Biddle (1899–1981) married Kate Raboteau Page (1903–?), daughter of Robert N. Page
              • Template:Tree list/final branchLivingston Ludlow Biddle (1926–2009) married Elizabeth "Betsy" Elwell Collin in 1953<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="BiddlePitt">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref>
          • Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1877–1959), married Rosalie Eugenia Carter Law (1890–1980)
            • Livingston Ludlow Biddle Jr. (1918–2002), chairman National Endowment for the Arts
            • Template:Tree list/final branchErnest Law Biddle (1919–1970)
          • Template:Tree list/final branchEdward Craig Biddle (1879–1947), tennis player, married firstly Laura Baker Whelen (1879–1925)<ref name="obit">Template:Cite news</ref>
            • Craig Biddle Jr. (1902–1988)
            • George Drexel Biddle (1903–1952)
            • Template:Tree list/final branchLaura May Biddle Stewart
      • Template:Tree list/final branchCharles John Biddle (1819–1873), Civil War colonel and U.S. Congressman,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> married Emma Mather (1830–1918)
        • Charles Biddle (1857–1923) married Letitia Glenn
          • Template:Tree list/final branchCharles John Biddle (1890–1972), World War I aviator and lawyer
        • Template:Tree list/final branchAlexander Mercer Biddle (1865–?), married Marriet Fox (1867–?)
          • Template:Tree list/final branchSydney Biddle (1901–?), married Donald Byers Barrows (1898–1991)
            • Template:Tree list/final branchDonald Byers Barrows Jr. (1926–2019), married Jeannette Ballantine (1930–2011)
              • Template:Tree list/final branchSydney Biddle Barrows (born January 14, 1952), New York City madam and author, known as the "Mayflower Madam"
    • Thomas Biddle (1790–1831), War of 1812 hero who died after a duel with a Missouri Congressman over a perceived insult to his brother Nicholas
    • John Biddle (1792–1859), Michigan politician, married Eliza Falconer Bradish
      • Magaretta Falconer Biddle (1825–1913), married General Andrew Porter (1820–1872)
      • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam Shepard Biddle (1830–1901), married Susan Dayton Ogden
        • Eliza Bradish Biddle (1857–1938), married Rev. Gershom Mott Williams (1857–1923)
          • Cecil Hayward Williams (1886–1972), married Phyllis Hope Hason (1886–1973)
            • Everard Mott Williams (1915–1972), married Mary Phoebus Stansel (1915–1999)
              • Thomas Granville Williams
              • Nancy Reid Williams
              • Susan Mott Williams
              • Peter Biddle Williams
        • John Biddle (1859–1936), Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
        • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam Shepard Biddle II (1863–1938), married Margaret Alden Burrell
          • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam Shepard Biddle III (1900–1981), Major General in World War II
    • Template:Tree list/final branchRichard Biddle (1796–1847), U.S. Representative<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Template:Tree list/final branchNicholas Biddle (1750–1778), Revolutionary War Navy captain

Branch of John Biddle (1707–1789) and Sarah Owen (1711–1773)

• John Biddle (1707–1789) and Sarah Owen (1711–1773)
  • Owen Biddle, Sr. (1737–1799), American Revolutionary War soldier, mathematician, astronomer, observed 1769 transit of Venus at Cape Henlopen, member of the American Philosophical Society, married Sarah Parke
    • John Biddle (1763–1815)
      • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam Biddle (1806–1887), married Elizabeth Garrett (1806–1881)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchSamuel Biddle (1844–1919), Bailey Banks & Biddle jewelry store
    • Owen Biddle Jr. (1774–1806), member of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, architect-builder, author "The Young Carpenters' Apprentice" (1805)
    • Template:Tree list/final branchClement Biddle (1778–1856), married Mary Canby (1780–1849)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
      • Template:Tree list/final branchRobert M. Biddle (1814–1902), married Anna Miller (1823–1891)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchHenry Canby Biddle (1845–1886), married Anna Mary McIlvain (1850–1926)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
          • Template:Tree list/final branchRobert Ralston Biddle (1885–?), lent name to Biddle Motor Car Company
  • Clement Biddle (1740–1814), American Revolutionary War soldier, helped organize the "Quaker Blues" volunteers, deputy quartermaster general of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey militia, married Rebekah Cornell (born 1755) daughter of Gideon Cornell
    • Francis Biddle (1775–1775)
    • Thomas Alexander Biddle, Sr. (1776–1857), married Christine Williams (1780–1861)
      • Clement Biddle (1810–1879), prominent Philadelphia lawyer, served during the Civil War in Landis' Battery, Pennsylvania Militia Light Artillery.
      • Thomas Alexander Biddle Jr. (1814–1888), married Julia Cox (1819–1906). He was the senior partner of the firm of Thomas A. Biddle & Co., bankers and brokers, and a director of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, the Allentown Iron Company, the Equitable Life Insurance Company, and other corporations.
      • Henry Jonathan Biddle (1817–1862), married distant cousin Mary Deborah Baird (1829–1900), who endowed Biddle University. He served as a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War; he was mortally wounded during the battle of New Market Cross Roads
        • Jonathan Williams Biddle (1855–1877), served during the War with the Plains Indians. He was killed at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana when his regiment charged a camp of Nez Perce Indians.
        • Template:Tree list/final branchHenry Jonathan Biddle (1862–1928), Oregon/Washington engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. In 1915 he bought the Columbia Gorge landmark Beacon Rock and developed a trail to its peak; his children Spencer and Rebecca donated it to Washington as a state park.
      • Alexander Williams Biddle Sr. (1819–1899), lieutenant colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, married Julia Williams Rush (1833–1898) granddaughter of Benjamin Rush
        • Alexander Williams Biddle Jr. (1856–1916), married Anne McKennan (1858–1934)
          • Julia Rush Biddle (1886–1978), married Thomas Charlton Henry (1887–1930), mother-in-law of Philip D. Armour Jr.
          • Template:Tree list/final branchAlexander Biddle (1893–1973), married Margot Scull (1896–1972)
        • Henry Rush Biddle (1858–1877)
        • Julia Rush Biddle (1859–1885)
        • James Wilmer Biddle (1861–1927), married Cora Rowland (1861–1927)
        • Mariamne Biddle (1866–1917)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchLynford Biddle (1871–1941)
      • Template:Tree list/final branchJonathan Williams Biddle (1821–1856), married Emily Skinner Meigs (1824–1905)
        • Christine Biddle (1847–1900), married Richard McCall Cadwalader (1839–1918)
        • Charles Meigs Biddle (1849–1853)
        • Williams Biddle (1850–1852)
        • Mary Biddle (1851–1851)
        • Thomas Biddle (1853–1915)<ref name="1916College">Template:Cite book</ref>
        • Template:Tree list/final branchEmily Williams Biddle (1855–1931)
    • George Washington Biddle (1779–1811)
    • Mary Biddle (1781–1850) married Thomas Cadwalader (1779–1841) son of General John Cadwalader
    • Rebekah Cornell Biddle (1782–1870), married Nathaniel Chapman (1780–1853)
    • Clement Cornell Biddle (1784–1855), married Mary Searle Barclay (1785–1872)
      • John Barclay Biddle (1815–1879), married Caroline Phillips (1821–1906)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchWilliam Phillips Biddle (1853–1923), 11th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps (1910–1914)
      • George Washington Biddle (1818–1897), married Maria Coxe McMurtrie (1818–1901)
        • George Washington Biddle Jr. (1843–1886), married Mary Hosack Rogers
        • Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891) married Frances Robinson
          • Moncure Biddle (1882–1956), a banker
          • George Biddle (1885–1973), an artist
          • Francis Beverly Biddle (1886–1968), US Attorney General, and primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials
          • Template:Tree list/final branchSydney Geoffrey Biddle (1889–1954), a psychologist
            • Template:Tree list/final branchOliver Cadwell Biddle, married to Katharine Mortimer (1923–2003)<ref name="NYTObitMortimer">Template:Cite news</ref>
              • Template:Tree list/final branchChristine Mortimer Biddle, married to Thomas George Reeves in 1972.<ref name="Engagement1972">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="1972Wedding">Template:Cite news</ref>
        • Template:Tree list/final branchArthur Biddle (1852–1897)
      • Template:Tree list/final branchChapman Biddle (1822–1880), Civil War colonel
    • Anne Biddle (1785–1786)
    • Lydia H. Biddle (1787–1826)
    • Sarah T. Biddle (1789–1790)
    • Anne Wilkinson Biddle (1791–?), married Thomas Dunlap (1793–1864)<ref name="Philadelphia1907">Template:Cite book</ref>
    • John Gideon Biddle (1793–1826), married his cousin Mary Biddle (?–1854)
    • Template:Tree list/final branchJames Cornell Biddle (1795–1838), married Sarah Caldwell Keppele (1789–1877) daughter of Michael Keppele (1771–1821)
      • Thomas Biddle (diplomat) (1827–1875), married Sarah Frederica White (1845–1870)
      • Caldwell Keppele Biddle (1829–1862)
      • Catherine Keppele Biddle (1831–1914), married William P. Tatham (1820–1899)
      • Rebecca Biddle (1833–1859)
      • James Cornell Biddle (1835–1898), married Gertrude Gouverneur Meredith (1839–1905). He served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
      • Template:Tree list/final branchCadwalader Biddle (1837–1906), founder of Union League of Philadelphia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Ann Biddle (1742–1807), married James Wilkinson (1757–1825)
    • John Wilkinson (1780–1796)
    • James Biddle Wilkinson (c. 1783–1813)
    • Joseph Biddle Wilkinson (1789–1865), married to Catherine Andrews (1785–1861)
      • Template:Tree list/final branchJoseph Biddle Wilkinson Jr. (1817–1902), married to Josephine Osborne Stark (1823–1908)
        • Joseph Biddle Wilkinson III (1845–1915), married to Lydia Duval (d. 1937)
        • Template:Tree list/final branchTheodore Stark Wilkinson (1847–1921), a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
          • Template:Tree list/final branchTheodore Stark Wilkinson (1888–1946), a Vice-Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II
    • Template:Tree list/final branchWalter Wilkinson (1791–1837), married to Emilia Louise Valle (1793–1849)
  • Template:Tree list/final branch Sarah Biddle (1748-1794), married 1) James Penrose 2) John Shaw and 3) Rudolph Tillier (of the Bernese patrician family Template:Ill)
    • Clement Biddle Penrose (1771-1829), Land Commissioner for the Louisiana Territory and namesake of Penrose, St. Louis, married to Anna Howard Bingham (c. 1778-?)
      • Charles Bingham Penrose (1798-1857), married his cousin Valeria Fullerton Biddle (1799-1881), as above

See also

• Biddle House (Mackinac Island)
• List of United States political families

References

• The Washington Post; August 17, 1933 "Helen Avis Howard Engaged To Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Clinton Howard, of Atlanta, have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Helen Avis Howard, to Mr. Anthony Joseph Drexel 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel, jr., of Philadelphia."
• The New York Times; October 14, 2004 "Nicholas Duke Biddle, 83, Scion Of Wealth Who Helped the Poor. Nicholas Duke Biddle, scion of two prominent American families who helped refugees from Cuba and Caribbean, dies at age 83. Mr. Biddle was originally named Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, after his father, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a prominent diplomat."

External links

• The Biddle Family Papers, documenting the personal, professional and social life of members of the Biddle family from 1683–1954, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
• William & Sarah Biddle's MOUNT HOPE, West Jersey (1684-2007/8) William Biddle House, Kinkora, Burlington County, NJ
• Nicholas & Sarah Biddle's MELMAR, Pennsylvania (1910–) Melmar Historical Marker