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Notes for Livingston Ludlow 2nd BIDDLE
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - April 17, 1981
Deceased Name: LIVINGSTON LUDLOW BIDDLE, 2D
By Burr Van Atta Inquirer Staff Writer
Livingston Ludlow Biddle 2d, 82, a decorated veteran of two world wars and a member of one of Philadelphia's most prominent families, died Feb. 7 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He formerly lived in Philadelphia and Pinehurst, N.C.
Mr. Biddle, for 40 years the president of Biddle & Co., a real estate and insurance company, with headquarters in Pinehurst, was one of the most retiring members of his family. He did his best to avoid the limelight.
The announcement of his death was limited to the immediate Palm Beach area.
No announcement was made in New York, Philadelphia or North Carolina until arrangments had been completed in Philadelphia for his funeral next week.
Mr. Biddle was the son of Col. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a man who was known throughout the world as an author, athlete, boxing instructor, explorer and lecturer. His grandmother was a Drexel, and both Drexels and Biddles were among the oldest and most influential families in the city.
He was a descendant of William Biddle, who came to America from England in 1681 and became proprietor of West Jersey, and of Nicholas Biddle, an early American financier who headed the Second United States Bank.
Although born to wealth, he and his older brother, Anthony J. Jr., were brought up in an atmosphere of goals and achievements, of outdoor activities and of a sort of muscular Christianity that developed from the colonel's preaching and the Bible classes he held throughout the world.
It was difficult, but they generally met their father's goals.
He followed his older brother at St. Paul's School at Concord, N.H., and into battle in World War I. It was at that point that the brothers went their separate ways. Livingston Biddle served in the Marine Corps and lost his left eye. Anthony J. Jr. served with the New York Cavalry.
Livingston Biddle returned to school after the armistice, graduating from Princeton University in 1922. He turned to business, and Anthony J. Jr. pursued sports and served his country in a series of posts, including ambassdorships to Spain and Poland for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The younger Biddle succeeded in winning a waiver on his loss of an eye and enlisted in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The father, not to be outdone by either of his sons, remained a civilian and taught boxing to the troops, just as he had during World War I.
Livingston Biddle was a member of the Bath and Tennis Clubs and served as first president of both. He was also a member of the Everglades Club and the Philadelphia Club and was a past president of the Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the Cincinnati.
His first marriage, to Kate Page, daughter of a Maryland congressman, ended in divorce in 1937.
A year later, he married Suzanne Hutchinson Neville Biddle, the daughter of a Wynnewood rector.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Livingston L. 3d, and three grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave.
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