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  Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)
The ancestors of the Biddle Family immigrated to Pennsylvania with William Penn, and fought in the pre-Revolutionary colonial struggles.
Biddle also prepared Lewis And Clark 's report of their exploratory expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River for publication.
Biddle's name does not appear on the work, as he was elected to the state legislature (1810-1811), and was compelled to turn over the project to Paul Allen, who supervised its publication, and, with the consent of all parties, was the recognized editor.
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  Edward Biddle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Edward Biddle (1738-1779) was an American (An enlisted man or woman who serves in an army) soldier, (A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice) lawyer, and statesman from (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Pennsylvania.
Edward was the son of William (1698-1756) and Mary (Scull) (1709-1790) Biddle.
Edward Biddle was a member of the committee that drafted to Declaration of Rights, and later oversaw the printing of the resolutions the Congress had passed.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_biddle.htm   (675 words)

  
 Nicholas Biddle (banker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biddle's preparatory education was received at an academy in Philadelphia, where his progress was so rapid that he entered the class of 1799 in the University of Pennsylvania, and would have taken his degree at the age of thirteen had it not been deemed wise to keep him longer at his books.
Another uncle, Edward Biddle, served in the old French war, and was a member of the congress of 1774.
Biddle's name does not appear, as he was elected to the state legislature (1810-1811), and was compelled to turn over the whole work to Paul Allen, who supervised its publication, and, with the consent of all parties, was the recognized editor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Biddle_(1786-1844)   (775 words)

  
 Biddle Letter 1837
Biddle is an Ottawa Woman, of full blood, very charitable and kind in disposition and ever since her marriage in the year 1818 has had a large number of Indians, belonging to the ceded district, as inmates in her house; that deponent has been very intimate with the said Mrs.
Biddle being without some Indians, to a greater or less amount in her kitchen and about her private house; that such inmates were supplied with food, lodging and fuel, when sick they were nursed, furnished with medicines and with a Doctor, if necessary, all of which was done by Mrs.
Biddle's husband and at their expense; that these instances were so numerous, the deponent cannot tell the precise number, but is positive that there was at least from forty to fifty deponent has himself with Mr.
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 Edward Biddle
Edward J. Biddle served in key energy acquisition management and contracting positions in the Defense Energy Support Center, Defense Logistics Agency, and the Department of Defense Energy Policy Office (1 year) from July 1963 to his retirement in March 1998.
Biddle is a respected leader in the fields of acquisition and petroleum logistics within the Department of Defense and the petroleum industry.
Biddle was selected to present the Department of Defense fuel position at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Conference which resulted in a review by member nations of their petroleum support capabilities that provided substantial host nation support during contingency operations.
www.dla.mil /history/HOFNominations2003/Biddle.htm   (810 words)

  
 Banks Biddle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Biddle received a classical education and was admitted to the bar, practicing law in Pittsburgh.
Biddle was one of four sons of Algernon Biddle, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Francis Biddle was married to the poet Katherine Garrison Chapin.
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 Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online   
Biddle had access to the same material as Barton, since he had the regular journals from which the copies were made, but he did not utilize the scored passages in his volumes, and relatively little on natural history appears in the 1814 edition.
Biddle's other item of deposit undetected by Coues was "two statistical tables of the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi river made by Governor Clark." The first of the two tables was the "Estimate of Eastern Indians," originally executed by Clark at Fort Mandan.
Biddle's recollection in later years about the notebooks given to Barton was "not as accurate as it would have been had they fallen more immediately under [his] examination." His words seem to indicate that he had nothing to do with the copying.
lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu /v02.appendix.b.html   (8333 words)

  
 Bank of the United States signed by Nicholas Biddle as President - Philadelphia 1838
Biddle was well educated; he entered the University of Pennsylvania at age 10 and when the university refused to award the teenager a degree, he transferred to Princeton and graduated in 1801, at age 15, as valedictorian.
Biddle also prepared Lewis and Clark's report of their exploratory expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River for publication, and he encouraged President Thomas Jefferson to write an introductory memoir of Captain Meriwether Lewis.
However, Biddle's name does not appear on the work, as he was elected to the state legislature (1810—1811) and was compelled to turn over the project to Paul Allen, who supervised its publication, and, with the consent of all parties, was the recognized as the editor.
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 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 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.
Biddle won the case for the TVA, and in 1940 he was appointed U.S. Solicitor General as well as the head of Immigration and Naturalization Services.
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 phillyBurbs.com | The Road to Sainthood
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.
Biddle takes the limelight in stride but pride in his family is evident.
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.
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 Nevada Mining Association   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In certain circumstances, Biddle advised that supervisory personnel may be personally liable for civil monetary penalties or, in severe cases, criminal penalties, including jail.
Biddle also advised that supervisors should not interfere with the rights of miners to complain about safety and health hazards, to refuse to work if a safety or health hazard exists, and to report hazards to MSHA.
Biddle said that MSHA investigators could be expected to start quickly and quietly interview witnesses and take records of interviews, look at and take company documents (including personal notes), look for evidence of crimes, and prepare a report and recommendation.
www.nevadamining.org /news/features/fs_951897600.html   (1098 words)

  
 Nicholas Biddle (banker) Summary
Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) was president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1823 to 1836.
In January 1823 Biddle was elected president of the Bank--a mixed public and private institution--being acceptable to the government and the shareholders alike but serving as a director by presidential appointment.
Biddle also prepared Lewis and Clark's report of their exploratory expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River for publication.
www.bookrags.com /Nicholas_Biddle_(banker)   (1306 words)

  
 Fresh Seminar
Edward Biddle was born May 3, 1852, in Carlisle, PA. E.W. Biddle went to the Dickinson Grammar School where after he completed his studies there moved on to Dickinson College.
When his son Biddle’s son Herman was born April 14, 1883, and also went in the same direction of his father.
At the entrance to the field is a plaque in memorial and as a tribute to Herman Biddle on a large stone gate.
users.dickinson.edu /~finkelsc/hist.html   (860 words)

  
 Exhibits - Mackinac State Historic Parks
The Edward Biddle family owned the Biddle House, built in the late 18th century, for several generations.
Edward Biddle was an American who took up permanent residence on Mackinac Island after the War of 1812.
Edward married Agatha, a local Odawa-Métis woman who lived all her life in the region.
www.mackinacparks.com /exhibits/historic-downtown_8   (1254 words)

  
 Hissem_Lardner Family
Edward Ringgold was a resident of Spring Garden, Ward 3, of Philadelphia in the 1840 census and John Ringgold was a resident of Pine Ward, Philadelphia in the 1850 census.
Nicholas Biddle, a revolutionary war naval hero, and James Biddle, a distinguished naval officer of the Federalist period, were uncles via Hannah Shepard's marriage to Charles Biddle, their brother.
Edward Biddle, the Commodore's brother, had died aboard the USS PRESIDENT in the West Indies during his first voyage; of a "tropical disease?" See also the career of Jame Biddle Lardner's cousin, James Lawrence Lardner, above, who would have joined the Navy about 6 years earlier than James.
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 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Ed'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
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 Brevet Brigadier-General James Biddle, U.S.V.
Edward R. was the son of Colonel Clement Biddle, deputy quartermaster-general U. Army during the Revolution, and his wife, Rebecca Cornell, daughter of the governor of Rhode Island,
He served at Indianapolis with his regiment, and in pursuit of the rebel General John Morgan in his raid into Indiana and Ohio; shelled Brandenburg, Kentucky, from the steamer on which his men were, while Morgan's men were in that town crossing the river.
General Biddle then rejoined the Fifteenth U. Infantry, as captain, in July, 1865, and assisted in the reconstruction of the South till November, 1870.
www.all-biographies.com /soldiers/james_biddle.htm   (602 words)

  
 Polk County Oregon Genealogy Biographies
Biddle was reared in his native State, and obtained only a limited education.
Biddle was married in 1878, to Miss Josephine Davis, a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of Luther B. Davis.
Grandfather Samuel Buell was born at Ford Edward, New York, in 1763, and Grandmother Buell, nee Jerusha Griswold, a native of New York, was born in 1776.
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 George Edward Reed, 15th President of Dickinson College
George Reed was born in Brownsville, Maine on March 28, 1846 as the tenth of eleven children of the Reverend George and Ann Hellyer Reed.
He worked with Edward Biddle in order to construct Biddle Athletic Field in honor of Biddle’s son.
Denny Hall was built in 1896, only to be destroyed by a fire in 1904 and reconstructed in 1905, in an impressive feat of financing.
chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/r/ed_reedGE.htm   (631 words)

  
 University of Delaware: BIDDLE FAMILY PAPERS
Series I. Descendants of William Biddle (1697-1756) and Mary Scull William Biddle was the first son of William Biddle (1669-1712) and Lydia Wardell.
Charles Biddle (1745-1821) Sixth child of William Biddle and Mary Scull; married to Hannah Shepard.
Descendants of John Biddle and Sarah Owen Second major branch of the Biddle family, descendants of John Biddle (1707-1789), sixth son of William Biddle (1669-1712) and Lydia Wardell (gen. chart 4) Series III.1.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/biddle2.htm   (1307 words)

  
 Coles
ALS by Daniel Webster to Edward Coles n.d.
ALS by Nicholas Biddle to Edward Coles, Sept. 24, 1814
Passport in French given to Edward Coles in Brussels by William Eustis and endorsed (in French) by Albert Gallatin.
infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/coles.html   (4052 words)

  
 Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions from St Michael, Horton
A stone - To Edward Perkins, and one to Mary Godden, died 8th January, 1860, aged 70.
Edward Godden, husband of ditto, died 23rd April, 1837, aged 52.
Large stone :- To the memory of Thomas, son of Edward and Mary Biddle, died 3rd August, 1717, aged 29.
met.open.ac.uk /genuki/big/eng/bkm/horton/MIs.html   (1537 words)

  
 Who's Who in the New Deal
A friend of FDR's since their days at Groton and Harvard, Biddle's letter to the president calling for relief for artists is considered the seed of all the New Deal art projects.
Rowan and Forbes Watson were second in importance to Edward Bruce in the Section.
Watson was one of Edward Bruce's closest advisors on the Section.
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 Nicholas Biddle
He was the nephew of a naval officer, Captain Nicholas Biddle (1750-1778), who lost his life while fighting on the American side during the War of American Independence.
In general he followed a conservative policy and showed marked ability in the management of the bank, but during President Andrew Jackson's warfare upon that institution, his character and his policy were violently assailed by the president and his followers.
The bank's national charter lapsed in 1836, but it was immediately chartered by Pennsylvania as the "Bank of the United States, of Pennsylvania"; and Biddle remained president until 1839, two years before the bank failed.
www.nndb.com /people/074/000094789   (276 words)

  
 Edward Biddle (1738-1779), University of Pennsylvania Archives
Philadelphia native Edward Biddle was listed as a student in the Academy of Philadelphia from 1752 until 1755.
Biddle was politically active at the state and national levels during the American Revolution.
At the time of his death in 1779 Biddle had just been named a trustee of the Academy and College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
www.archives.upenn.edu /histy/features/1700s/people/biddle_edward.html   (172 words)

  
 Stephen Biddle - Council on Foreign Relations
Council Fellows Stephen Biddle and Steven Cook, join George Mason University professors Eric McGlinchey and Peter Mandaville at a Town Hall meeting to discuss the Middle East and Iraq.
On the anniversary of U.S. military action in Iraq, Stephen Biddle and Jane Arraf discuss the nature of the conflict and strategies for moving forward.
Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow, Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations and winner of the 2005 Huntington Prize from Harvard University Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
www.cfr.org /bios/2603/stephen_biddle.html   (1158 words)

  
 William R. Talbot :: Prints   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first 8 parts were put out by Edward C. Biddle, the next 4 by Frederick W. Greenough, the next 4 by Rice and Clark, and the last 4 by Rice and Clark.
Volume I is generally credited as being published by Biddle at the 23 Minor Street address, volume II by Greenough or Rice and Clark, and volume III by Rice and Clark.
The imprints in the present set represent all the publishers, including the earliest Biddle imprint on volume I. Not much went smoothly for McKenney's great dream for himself and for his friends of the Indian Nations.
www.williamtalbot.com /19thcenturyprints/19_mck_hfol.html   (604 words)

  
 Biddle House on Mackinac Island, MI
Biddle House on Mackinac Island, MI Built in 1780, Mackinac Island's Biddle House is known as the oldest building on the island.
The main focus of the Biddle House is life in the 19th century, as explored through the Biddle family.
The Biddle House is open during the summer season (late May to early October), with a small admission fee applying.
www.vacationsmadeeasy.com /MackinacIslandAreaMI/pointsOfInterest/BiddleHouseonMackinacIslandMI.cfm   (164 words)

  
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- Thomas Mann, TLS 3/22/1940, re a speech by Biddle on the U.S. - Henri de Kerillis, ALS 10/13/1940, in French.
Thanks Biddle for facilitating contact with Homer Byington, U.S. consul general in Montreal, and from whom he has just received a letter.
- Arthur Chitty, TLS 3/10/1955, re Richard Biddle as alumni of the law department of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/biddlef/series2.htm   (5700 words)

  
 Norfolk Genealogy | Births Marriages Deaths Etc.
Biddle -- C. Biddle was appointed an officer of 1890 Port Rowan council.
Biddle was reported critically ill at the home of her daughter Mrs.
Biddle -- Daniel Biddle was an officer of 1910 North Walsingham council
www.nornet.on.ca /~jcardiff/b-m-d/bi.htm   (3345 words)

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