• Sarah was a 9th generation Mayflower descendant of 2 of the 102 Mayflower passengers, Captain Myles Standish and John Alden which landed near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1620

• Nicholas was an 7th generation descendant of William Biddle (1633-1711) and wife Sarah Kempe Biddle (1634-1709) who immigrated from England along with WIlliam Penn, to Burlington, NJ in 1681

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• Sarah’s maternal grandfather Joseph Wharton (1826-1909) founded the Wharton Business School at The University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College, and Bethlehem Steel

• Sarah’s paternal grandfather Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (1813-1886) founded global publishing company J. B. Lippincott Company

• Nicholas’s maternal grandfather Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826-1893) founded Drexel University as well as a financial firm which eventually became JP Morgan

• Nicholas’s great grandfather Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) was President of the Second Bank of the United States, the precursor to the Fed

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• Nicholas’s sister-in-law Mary Duke Biddle was the granddaughter of Duke University founder George Washington Duke (1820-1905) and

• Nicholas’s niece Cordelia Biddle married Angier Duke, the grandson of George Washington Duke

• Nicholas and Sarah’s daughter-in-law Mary Hopkins Biddle (married to son Nicholas Jr) was the great great niece of Johns Hopkins University founder Johns Hopkins (1795-1873)   (Mary’s father was also named Johns Hopkins)

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• Sarah’s aunt Sallie Bucknell Lippincott was the daughter of Bucknell University founder William Robert Bucknell (1811-1890)

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• Nicholas’s great aunt Rebekah Cornell Biddle (1755) was the aunt of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell (1807-1874)

• Nicholas’s aunt Edith Biddle Van Rensselaer was married to the great grandson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute founder Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839)

• Nicholas’s aunt Sarah Drexel Van Rensselaer, was married to another great grandson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute founder Stephen Van Rensselaer

• Nicholas’s uncle Samuel Biddle (1844-1919) founded jeweler Bailey Banks and Biddle

• Nicholas’s uncles Cadwalader Biddle (1837-1906) and George W. Biddle (1843–1886), co-founded the Union League of Philadelphia

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• Nicholas’s nephew Jamie Biddle’s (1929) wife’s great-great grandfather Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours founded Du Pont

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• Nicholas's great-great uncle Edward Biddle married Elizabeth Ross, the aunt of Betsy Ross (1752-1836), and sister of Declaration of Independence signer George Ross

  • In 1827 Betsy Ross moved in with her daughter, Susanna Claypoole (1786–1875), in a section of Abington Township, Pennsylvania

 

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• Nicholas’s aunt Catherine Mary Drexel (1858) was a missionary and founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and canonized Saint Katherine Drexel in 2000.

• Nicholas’s great aunt Emma Bouvier (1833) was the great great aunt of First Lady Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (Jackie O)

• As a child, Nicholas resided at Andalusia, (also known as the Nicholas Biddle Estate), a historic mansion and estate located on the Delaware River which is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States, and is one of the most recognizable buildings in America

 

• The history of this home is associated with one of Philadelphia's most prominent families, the Biddle's.

• Wharton Business School was founded by Sarah’s maternal grandfather Joseph Wharton.

• Drexel University was founded by Nicholas’s grandfather Anthony Joseph Drexel.

• Duke University was founded by Nicholas’s sister in-laws grandfather George Washington Duke.

• Cornell University was founded by Nicholas’s cousin Ezra Cornell.

• Bailey Banks and Biddle was owned by uncle Samuel Biddle.

• JP Morgan was founded by Nicholas's grandfather Anthony Joseph Drexel.

• JB Lippincott Inc was founded by Sarah's grandfather.

• The Union League founder was Nicholas's uncle Cadwallader Biddle.

• Nicholas’s great grandfather Nicholas (b1786) was President of the Second Bank of the United States which was America's central bank.

• Andalusia in Bensalem was built for great grandfather Nicholas Biddle (b1786) and Nicholas grew up there.

• 5 US Navy ships were named USS Biddle after family members

• Nicholas's great uncle Nicholas Biddle (b1750) appears in Assassins Creed III as the captain of USS Randolph.

• Nicholas’s brother Anthony Drexel Biddle Sr was the subject of Disney’s movie The Happiest Millionaire.

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• Nicholas's xxx, Ellen_Biddle_Shipman (b1869) was a famous landscape artist who did work for famous clients including the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Du Ponts, Mellons, Roosevelts, and Astors

• Nicholas's xxx,  Sydney Francis Biddle (b1918) married Flora Vanderbilt Whitney Miller Biddle (b1928) who was the great-great granddaughter of one of the richest Americans in history, Cornelius Vanderbilt I (b1794) and a and a descendant of Eli Whitney, inventor of the Cotton gin.

• Oliver Caldwell Biddle (b1921)

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• Nicholas's xxx, Mary Biddle was VINNIE MOORE's GUITAR TEACHER!

 

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