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The American Biddle family of Philadelphia began when William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), Quakers, emigrated from England to America in 1681, in part, to avoid religious persecution. Having acquired extensive rights to over 43,000 acres (170 km2) of lands in Quaker West Jersey, they settled first at Burlington. Two third generation brothers, William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756), and John Biddle (1707–1789), moved from Mount Hope (1684) near Bordentown to Philadelphia in the 1720s and 1730s and constituted the first generation of the Philadelphia Biddle family.

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Branch of William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756) and Mary Scull (1709–1790)

  • Lydia Biddle (1734–1767), married William Macfunn (died 1768)
  • William Macfunn Biddle (1764–1809), married Lydia Spencer (1766–1858)
  • Lydia Spencer Biddle (1797–1871), married Samuel Baird (1786–1833)
  • Mary Deborah Baird (1829–1900), endowed Biddle University, married distant cousin Henry Jonathan Biddle (1817–1862) grandson of Clement Biddle
  • John "Jacky" Biddle (1736–?) married Sophia Boone
  • Edward Biddle bought Biddle House on Mackinac Island
  • William Biddle married Abigail Johnson
  • Joseph Cadwalader Biddle (1805–1884) married Elizabeth Cook (died 1899)
  • William Biddle married Anna W.?
  • Frederick Davis Biddle married Estelle Warne Harbeson
  • Eric Harbeson Biddle (1898–1993), businessman and diplomat, assisted Franklin D. Roosevelt during the creation of the United Nations and the United Nations Establishment Commissions (married Katherine Rogers, the daughter of Colonel John I. Rogers).
  • Eric Harbeson Biddle, Jr. (1928–2013), CIA Section Chief, later Immigration Lawyer
  • John "Jack" Biddle
  • Maurice 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, married Elizabeth Ross, sister of George Ross
  • Charles Biddle (1745–1821), politician, married Hannah Shepard
  • James Biddle (1783–1848), 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
  • Edward 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) adapted as 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 the sister of Angier Buchanan Duke
  • Mary Duke Biddle (1920–2012), heiress and philanthropist
  • Cordelia Drexel Biddle (1898–1984), married Angier Buchanan Duke 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
  • Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1899–1981) married Kate Raboteau Page (1903–?), daughter of Robert N. Page
  • Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1926–2009) married Elizabeth "Betsy" Elwell Collin in 1953
  • Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1877–1959), married Euginie Carter Law
  • Livingston L. Biddle, Jr. (1918–2002), chairman National Endowment for the Arts
  • Nicholas Biddle (1893–1977), married Sarah Lippincott (1894–1962), granddaughter (on her father's side) of the founder of the J. B. Lippincott Company and granddaughter (on her mother's side) of Joseph Wharton
  • John Biddle (1925–2008), America's Cup Hall of Fame yachting cinematographer
  • Charles John Biddle (1819–1873), Civil War colonel and U.S. Congressman, married Emma Mather (1830–1918)
  • Charles Biddle (1857–1923) married Letitia Glenn
  • Charles John Biddle (1890–1972), World War I aviator and lawyer
  • Alexander Mercer Biddle (1865–?), married Marriet Fox (1867–?)
  • Sydney Biddle (1901–?), married Donald Byers Barrows (1898–1991)
  • Donald Byers Barrows, Jr. (1926–), married Jeannette Ballantine (1930–2011)
  • Sydney 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)
  • William Shepard Biddle (1830–1901), married Susan Dayton Ogden
  • John Biddle (1859–1936), Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
  • William Shepard Biddle II (1863–1938), married Margaret Alden Burrell
  • William Shepard Biddle III (1900–1981), Major General in World War II
  • Richard Biddle (1796–1847), U.S. Representative
  • Nicholas Biddle (1750–1778), Revolutionary War Navy captain

    • Branch of 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)
  • Samuel 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)
  • Clement Biddle (1778–1856), married Mary Canby (1780–1849)
  • Robert M. Biddle (1814–1902), married Anna Miller (1823–1891)
  • Henry Canby Biddle (1845–1886), married Anna Mary McIlvain (1850–1926)
  • Robert 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.
  • 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
  • Dr. Alexander Williams Biddle, Jr. (1856–1916), married Anne McKennan (1858–1934)
  • Julia Rush Biddle (1886–1978), married Maj. 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)
  • Dr. Thomas Biddle (1853–1915)
  • Emily Williams Biddle (1855–1931)
  • George Washington Biddle (1779–1812)
  • Mary Biddle (1781–1850) married Thomas Cadwalader (1779–1841) son of General John Cadwalader
  • Rebekah Cornell Biddle (1782–1870), married Dr. Nathaniel Chapman (1780–1853)
  • Clement Cornell Biddle (1784–1855), married Mary Searle Barclay (1785–1872)
  • John Barclay Biddle MD (1815–1879), married Caroline Phillips (1821–1906)
  • William P. Biddle (1853–1923), 11th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps (1910–1914)
  • George Washington Biddle (1818–1897), married Maria Coxe McMurtrie (1818–1901)[3]
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Ann Biddle (1742–1807), married James Wilkinson

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    Biddle family Wikipedia
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