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 University of Delaware: BIDDLE FAMILY PAPERS
The Biddle family papers consists of eight linear feet, spanning from 1766 to 1943, and bulking in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
The earliest of the Biddle family papers span the latter half of the eighteenth century, and include official business documents signed by Biddle family members, such as land deeds, indenture contracts, and legal correspondence, which illustrate their careers as litigators and notary publics.
The Biddle family papers are arranged to reflect three major branches of the Biddle family.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/biddle.htm   (7224 words)

  
 phillyBurbs.com | The Road to Sainthood
The Drexel-Biddle family was united in 1872 with the wedding of Emily Drexel to Edward Biddle in Philadelphia.
Biddle moved his j ob away from Manhattan because he missed his children and he was tired of the five-plus hours of traveling time to work.
And Biddle, a member of the Episcopalian branch of the family, was touched by Pope John Paul II's invitation for him and his family to receive Holy Communion during the beatification Mass.
www.phillyburbs.com /drexel/drexel_family.shtml   (726 words)

  
 Henry J. Biddle photographs, c.1860s-1925
He was a member of the prominent Biddle family of Philadelphia, and the son of Maj. Henry J. Biddle (1817-1862), who died the year Henry was born, from wounds suffered in the Battle of Newmarket Crossroads.
Henry J. Biddle was educated at Sheffield School and Yale University, and received a degree in geology in 1885 from the Kaiserlich Bergakademie in Freiburg, Germany.
Notable family images are a portrait of Maj. Henry J. Biddle (1817-1862) and one of Lt. Jonathan Williams Biddle (1855-1877) in uniform, Mary D. Biddle, and an unidentified male Biddle from the 19th century.
libweb.uoregon.edu /speccoll/photo/fbiddle.html   (1230 words)

  
 Hissem_Biddle Family
The Biddle family was one of the most prominent in Philadelphia and had links of friendship and family with the Gibbons, Lardners, and Shepards.
Biddle disposed of over fourteen hundred and seventy-eight acres of land, he being one of the largest landed proprietors in the Province.
Biddle was a merchant engaged in business in Philadelphia until he failed in 1826, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1827.
balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_Biddle.html   (6486 words)

  
 D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. - Biddle Biography
Biddle lived the artist's life on the Left Bank, spending the summers of 1915 and 1916 in Giverny with the American expatriate artist Frederick Carl Frieseke.
In Charleston Biddle produced a large folio of drawings of the local people involved in everyday activities from which were selected the illustrations for the libretto.
Biddle was appointed Chairman of the U.S. War Artists Committee in 1943, and spent six months with American troops in Tunisia, North Africa recording his observations in drawings and watercolors.
www.dwigmore.com /estates/biddle_bio.html   (1034 words)

  
 Biddle family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Biddle (1630-1712) and Sarah Kemp (1634-1709) were Quakers who immigrated from England to America in 1681 in order to avoid religious persecution.
Descendants of William and Sarah would establish the Biddle family as a prominent Philadelphia family.
Francis Beverly Biddle, the primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biddle_family   (228 words)

  
 Biddle Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning with Genealogy & Family History Resources
The origin of the surname Biddle may give hints about one line of your family history from many hundreds of years ago such as where your family lived, what they did, or how they looked.
The AWT is an ever-growing database of lineage linked individuals and families to identify previous research on the Biddle family line.
Trace your Biddle family in the vast resources of the Mormon LDS genealogy online databases which includes the Ancestral File, transcribed census records, and the International Genealogical Index.
www.searchforancestors.com /surnames/origin/b/biddle.php   (862 words)

  
 Commemorative Chairs: Francis Biddle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Biddle attended Groton and Harvard College, where he was a classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in 1911 graduated from the Harvard School of Law.
Biddle devoted himself to writing and speaking about his career, and also served as a member of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission.
Biddle was married to poet Katherine Garrison Chapin, with whom he had two children.
www.feri.org /kiosk/profile.cfm?QID=1829   (461 words)

  
 Author SpotLight on Oliver Biddle
Biddle, whose original education plan was to become a writer, became a lawyer after marrying and starting a family.
Biddle's three titles are now available online at AtlasBooks and Amazon, and can be found in collections of books documenting American history and culture in the Widener Library at Harvard University.
is the final volume of a true family saga in three parts that centers around the devastating effect of the provisions of a will drawn in 1873 upon the lives of, and relations between, three generations of beneficiaries over a period of one hundred years.
www.bookmasters.com /authorspotlight/asbiddle.htm   (751 words)

  
 Converted WP file /web/data/judiciary/opinions/090102   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Biddle, a veteran who had never married and had no children, was living in a housing facility for senior citizens.
She also said that Biddle was very sick on the night of his death and said several times: “I'm going to die tonight.” She reiterated that York discovered the body when she brought Biddle his breakfast, which was the same account she and York had given to the police on the day of the death.
Biddle died, I'll tell you then,” which lead [sic] me to believe that, you know, she, uh, there was something that she was wanting to tell me she just wouldn't cross that bridge.
www.in.gov /judiciary/opinions/previous/archive/090102.trb.html   (6468 words)

  
 JNC: Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, USMC CQB Pioneer: Svinth
Biddle was a Philadelphia socialite who fancied himself a boxer, and in 1906 he began taking a first-rate professional boxer named "Philadelphia" Jack O’Brien on visits to Sunday School classes at Philadelphia’s Holy Trinity Church.
During the 1920s, Biddle’s favorite heavyweight boxer was Gene Tunney, and during the 1920s Biddle was often seen in the corner of "The Fighting Marine." See, for example, http://bally.fortunecity.com/mayo/239/tunney.book.long.count.chapter.4.txt.html.
So strong was Biddle’s indoctrination into the use of the sword, that his entire method of [knife combat] instruction is built around such maneuvers as In-quartata, Passata Sotto, and other, similar movements well known to the duellist.
ejmas.com /jnc/jncart_Svinth_1201.htm   (2174 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Biddle & Rader Family Page
I am Researching the Buttel/Bittle/Biddle family, Andrew Biddle arrived in Philadelphia from HesseCassel Germany in 1752, on the ship Phoenix, he settled in Frederick County MD, to which he served in the American Revolutionary War as Lieutenant in charge of transporting supplies.
From that their children intermarried with the Todd family from England whose family arrived in the USA about 1747, and the Knight Family.
The Biddle Clan moved From Maryland to Pennsylvania and then on to Ohio where they settled, and started the growing of the family.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/r/a/d/Pamela-J-Rader/index.html   (214 words)

  
 Montreal Mirror - The Front Page : Nomenclature
Last February, after jazz bassist Charlie Biddle died, his widow and children won a court injunction ordering George Durst's restaurant to cease using the family name.
The Biddle family lawyer feels that the rewording won't apply to their battle to keep their family's name off the famous local jazz landmark.
It remains unknown what effect the new, revised wording will have on the rights of Quebec families over the lives of bygone family members, but copyright lawyer Laurent Carrière feels that the revision "doesn't change a lot," he says.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2004/011504/news1.html   (511 words)

  
 BIDDLE, Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph Biddle July 19, 1931 - June 9, 2006 Stephen Joseph Biddle, born July 19, 1931 in Birmingham, England to Anni Kathleen Murphy Biddle and John 'Jack' Biddle, passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully, due to complications of a brain aneurism on June 9, 2006 in Sacramento, CA.
Steve is predeceased by his parents; brother, Jack Biddle; sister, Mary Kathleen Nolan; his former wife, Carmel Geraldine Moran Purdum and their daughter Kathleen Biddle.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations be made to The Muscular Dystrophy Association, ALS Division; 1-800-Fight MD; 1-888-Help MDA; als.mdausa.org.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/17/MNBIDDLEST1.DTL   (186 words)

  
 Andalusia on the Delaware - History of Andalusia
It has been the country seat for almost 200 years of the Craigs and Biddles, the latter a legendary Philadelphia family of bankers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, military men, agriculturists, and horticulturists.
The centerpiece of this great Biddle family estate is the Greek Revival house with its monumental columned porch, by Thomas U. Walter, a remodeling in 1835-1836 of the 1806 building of Benjamin H. Latrobe.
As early as 1822 Nicholas Biddle chastised his fellow landholders about the way in which the land was being exploited.
www.andalusiahousemuseum.org /history.htm   (602 words)

  
 Carry Me Back - Beaver Eclips - OSU Alumni Association
Alice Biddle, from Corvallis, was actually one of three students in Oregon State's first graduating class in 1870.
Her parents, Benjamin Robert and Maria Biddle, were early settlers to Benton County and lived at first on a pioneer claim of 320 acres on land located in what is now OSU's McDonald Forest.
Still a teenager and accustomed to being the coddled princess of the family, Alice was disappointed with the child's red hair, eventually leaving her to be carried for by Maria.
alumni.oregonstate.edu /eclips/carry/july20_2001.html   (734 words)

  
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Biddle manuscripts (C) were catalogued fully in the FHL manuscript card catalogue before 1950, and there is a detailed checklist of the correspondence available in the Library.
Biddle Manuscripts were reviewed, reorganized, refoldered, and a revised checklist was prepared in 1988, and the collection was transferred to Record Group 5.
Biddle was involved in the child feeding program and other war relief efforts in Austria and Poland which were based at the Mission in Vienna.
www.swarthmore.edu /Library/friends/ead/5177bifa.xml   (2175 words)

  
 Collections Documenting Women in Society: Family Papers
The major part of the Borthwick Family papers are the papers, diaries, and letters of Alexander E. Borthwick.
The Borthwick Family papers include letters (1887-1920) of the Saunders Family and a diary of Frances R. Saunders (1915) while teaching school in Casa Grande, Arizona.
The Powell Family Papers contain personal, social, and business records relating to the John A. Powell family and the Joseph B.V. Butler family of Linn and Polk counties, Oregon.
libweb.uoregon.edu /speccoll/guides/women/family.html   (526 words)

  
 Justin Time / Artist Details
When the Biddle Family opened the 1995 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, they were introduced as "the royal family of Montreal music".
The Biddle family has its roots in the slave plantations of North Carolina, they moved to the industrialized North after the Civil War.
The Biddle family is a testimony to the racial, linguistic and cultural harmony that is possible here in Montreal.
www.justin-time.com /authors/charliebiddle   (435 words)

  
 Bankers of the early republic
It’s real success came under the presidency of the brilliant Nicholas Biddle, the progeny scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family.
Nicholas Biddle guided the Second National Bank from 1823 through to the repeal of its charter in 1836 and then continued to operate it under a Pennsylvania State charter for several years.
Using the bank’s privilege to operate branches in many states, Biddle built the institution into the most powerful banking house of the United States of America.
www.raken.com /american_wealth/bankers/bankers3.asp   (507 words)

  
 The Happiest Millionaire DVD Review
It's 1916, and the wealthy Drexel-Biddle family is prominent in Philadelphia.
Biddle, Greer Garson may appear in many scenes, but she is overshadowed by MacMurray's paterfamilias in every way.
Then, there are the two Biddle sons, who appear in just one number early on and disappear for the remainder of the film.
www.ultimatedisney.com /happiest.html   (1919 words)

  
 Women of Letters: Collections
The papers of poet Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle (1890-1977) comprise part of the Biddle Family Papers which include those of her husband Francis Biddle (a former U.S. attorney general).
The poem was dedicated to the memory of Biddle’s young son, Garrison Chapin Biddle (1923-1930).
For almost fifty years, Sitwell and her siblings Sir Osbert and Sir Sacheverell were regarded as the first family of British literature and leaders of the avant-garde during the twenties when they were known as the "stormy petrels" of the London scene.
www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/wwcoll.htm   (2623 words)

  
 Nicholas Biddle Papers (Library of Congress)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The papers of Nicholas Biddle, banker, editor, diplomat, lawyer, and legislator, were deposited in the Library of Congress by his grandsons, Charles and Edward Biddle, 1913-1914.
The papers pertain primarily to Biddle's career as president of the Bank of the United States, 1822-1839, and cover topics such as the attitude of Congress and the president toward the bank, fiscal operations, and the views of the public regarding the bank.
Other material relates to Biddle's student years at Princeton University, his position as secretary of the American legation in Paris, his editorship of and contributions to Port Folio magazine, his work as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, and to business, social affairs, and farming.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/biddle.html   (572 words)

  
 Biddlebugs.com
Family Vacation to Muskegon, MI A few photos from our trip.
We've posted our 2005 family Christmas card, complete with some of our favorite photos and stories from the past year.
Moving away from the one page family newsletter that I updated once a year (usually Christmas time) at my wife's kind bidding.
www.biddlebugs.com   (1096 words)

  
 BIDDLE: Genealogy Queries
BIDDLE : DOOLITTLE : I am the granddaughter of Rose Marian Biddle who was one of eleven children of Richard Biddle.
I am trying to get a family tree of the Biddle family, there is a...
BIDDLE search results at Interment.net - Burial records and tombstone inscriptions from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
www.cousinconnect.com /p/a/0/s/BIDDLE   (476 words)

  
 TIME.com: Building the Past -- Jan. 19, 1968 -- Page 1
When Biddle took his newly created post this month, he brought along his expertise as curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's American wing, and a patrician family's heritage.
The Philadelphia Biddle clan's family seat—and James Biddle's boyhood home—is "Andalusia," the most celebrated example of Greek Revival architecture in the U.S. Off and flying, Biddle injected the national conscience into a battle over Hawaii's Diamond Head.
Said Biddle: "There is a place for high-rise development, but must it be on the slopes of your greatest monument?" Now embattled preservationists have begun to sway the Honolulu city council against the rezoning plan.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,841164,00.html   (604 words)

  
 Drinker Biddle - About Drinker - Firm History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Charles J. Biddle served with distinction in World War I.  He joined the Lafayette Escadrille in France, where he shot down eight enemy planes and rose to the rank of major.  The French awarded him both the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre, and he received the American Distinguished Service Cross.
In 2003, Drinker Biddle partner Wilson M. Brown III picked up the baton from a Charles Biddle case against the United States on behalf of the survivors of widows he represented in a 1948 B-29 airplane crash that invoked national security as the government’s defense.
Several generations of the Drinker family – lawyers and staff alike – viewed Lewis H. Van Dusen as the heart and soul of the firm.
www.drinkerbiddle.com /about/history   (1317 words)

  
 Biddle Family Genealogy Forum
Biddles from Bermondsey 1881 census - Brenda Eastwood 1/12/05
BIDDLE IN OHIO and ILLINOIS - Izetta Biddle 9/24/04
BIDDLE and SHOUP Family, Kansas, 1920 and 1930 - Carlene Morrison 4/19/04
genforum.genealogy.com /biddle   (2329 words)

  
 Urban Track - Family Practice Residency Program - Carolinas Healthcare System
The Department of Family Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center joins other innovative leaders in the Charlotte community in reaching out to our underserved populations.
Residents work with committed family physicians in an innovative healthcare delivery model with a strong community focus.
The residents who are selected in the Urban Track will have their continuity Family Medicine experience at Biddle Point and will work side-by-side with family physicians who also serve as preceptors.
www.carolinas.org /education/meded/family/family_urban.cfm   (345 words)

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