Biddle family

For people and other things with the name Biddle, see Biddle (disambiguation).
Biddle
Political family
Current regionPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Place of originEngland
MottoDeus clypeus meus
 (Latin for 'God is my shield')

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 43,000 acres (170 km2) of lands in West Jersey, they settled first at Burlington, a city which developed along the east side of the Delaware River.[1]

William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756), and John Biddle (1707–1789), two third-generation brothers, moved from Mount Hope (1684) 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.[1]

Family members

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)

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)
        • William Biddle (1806–1887), married Elizabeth Garrett (1806–1881)
      • 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)
      • Clement Biddle (1778–1856), married Mary Canby (1780–1849)[17]
        • Robert M. Biddle (1814–1902), married Anna Miller (1823–1891)
          • Henry Canby Biddle (1845–1886), married Anna Mary McIlvain (1850–1926)[18]
    • 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.
          • Henry 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.
            • Alexander 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)
          • Lynford Biddle (1871–1941)
        • Jonathan 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)[19]
          • Emily 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)
        • 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
            • Sydney Geoffrey Biddle (1889–1954), a psychologist
              • Oliver Cadwell Biddle, married to Katharine Mortimer (1923–2003)[20]
                • Christine Mortimer Biddle, married to Thomas George Reeves in 1972.[21][22]
          • Arthur Biddle (1852–1897)
        • Chapman 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)[23]
      • John Gideon Biddle (1793–1826), married his cousin Mary Biddle (?–1854)
      • James 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.
        • Cadwalader Biddle (1837–1906), founder of Union League of Philadelphia[24]
    • Ann Biddle (1742–1807), married James Wilkinson (1757–1825)

See also

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."

Citations

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  22. ^ Times, Special To The New York (August 13, 1972). "Christine Biddle Is Wed To Thomas G. Reeves". The New York Times. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  23. ^ Philadelphia, St Andrew's Society of (1907). Historical Catalogue ... with Biographical sketches of deceased members, 1749-1907. Printed for the society. p. 163. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  24. ^ "DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; Cadwalader Biddle" (PDF). query.nytimes.com. Retrieved April 9, 2016.