Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Lyman BIDDLE
William Lyman Biddle, son of Thomas Alexander and Julia (Cox) Biddle was born in Philadelphia, October 8, 1853. He received his elementary education in Dr. Ferris Select School, Philadelphia, and preparing for college at St. Paul's Preparatory School, Concord, New Hampshire, entered Princeton University from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1874. After spending two years in foreign travel he entered a broker's office in New York city where he spent two years, and in 1878, returned to Philadelphia and engaged in the brokerage business as a member of the firm with his father, and has since followed that business in his native city. Mr. Biddle is a member of the Rittenhouse, Philadelphia Country, Racquet, Corinthian Yacht, Philadelphia and Rabbit Clubs, and is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution as a descendant of Colonel Clement Biddle, before mentioned, one of the distinguished officers of Pennsylvania troops in the War of the Revolution.
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