Rash's Surname Index
Notes for James Wilmer BIDDLE
J. Wilmer received his early education in Philadelphia and in Ossining, New York. In 1884, he entered the Philadelphia firm of Thomas A. Biddle, where he remained until 1891. He was an active sportsman, and Philadelphia socialite. He was elected to the First Troop Philadelphia City Calvary in 1889 and served during the Homestead riots near Pittsburgh in July 1892. He was a member of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the Philadelphia Club, the Radnor Hunting Club, the Philadelphia Country Club, the Rittenhouse Club, and the Acorn Club. Traveling extensively, he spent numerous winters in Cannes, France. He was a denominational Episcopalian and politically, a Republican. J. Wilmer married twice, first to Cora Rowland (d. 1920), daughter of the Philadelphia manufacturer Howard Rowland, and with whom he had two children, Marianne (b. 1893) and Harriet (b. 1896). After Cora's death, he married Elizabeth Southall Gordon on September 21, 1921. She was the daughter of realtor John Eldridge Clarke and widow of the Baltimore financier Douglas Huntly Gordon. J. Wilmer Biddle died in Baltimore on November 22, 1927.
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