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  1. Anthony Joseph Drexel (grandfather) Nicholas Biddle (great-grandfather) Biddle as a boxer in 1909. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. (October 1, 1874 – May 27, 1948) was a millionaire whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis. [1]

  2. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. was a millionaire whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis. Introduction Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.

  3. Anthony Joseph Drexel Sr. (September 13, 1826 – June 30, 1893) was an American banker who played a major role in the rise of modern global finance after the American Civil War. As the dominant partner of Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia , he founded Drexel, Morgan & Co , which later became J.P. Morgan & Co. , in New York City in 1871 with J. P ...

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    • September 13, 1826, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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  5. Connected to two of Philadelphia’s most influential banking families, Biddle was the grandson of Anthony J. Drexel and the great-grandson of Nicholas Biddle. He married Cordelia Rundell Bradley in 1891 and the couple had three children, Ambassador Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1897–1961), Cordelia Drexel Biddle (1898–1984), and ...

  6. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (1874-1948) was a pioneer of bayonet and hand-to-hand combat training in the US Marine Corps, and reading the New York Times (February 15, 1942), one learns that: When the first World War started, Colonel Biddle opened a military training camp near Lansdowne [Pennsylvania], where he trained 4,000 young ...

  7. Feb 10, 2020 · King of Close-Quarters Combat. If you’ve ever trained in hand-to-hand or close-quarters combat, you probably have Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. to thank. A Marine officer in the early twentieth century, Biddle was an expert in hand-to-hand and close-quarter combat who, quite literally, wrote one of the authoritative books on the subject.

  8. Jan 2, 2020 · Portrait of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (1897-1961) dressed in a riding outfit at the age of 25. Kennedy then approached Biddle’s close friend, General James Gavin–who Kennedy had just ...

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