For example, he managed Belgian boxer René deVos, and invested in the St. In the 1920s he engaged in several business ventures, which were known as social successes but financial failures. In World War I he first enlisted as a private, and was promoted to rank of captain. He married as his third wife, in 1946, Margaret Atkinson Loughborough, the former wife of William Ellery Loughborough and had two children, Margaret Biddle and Anthony Biddle III after Biddle's death, she married, as her fourth husband, Colonel Edwinston Robbins. His second wife, whom he married in 1931 (later divorced), was Margaret Thompson Schulze, the only child of mining magnate William Boyce Thompson by this marriage he had two stepchildren, ( Margaret) Boyce Schulze and Theodore Schulze Jr, as well as a son, given the name Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, who died at birth. They divorced in 1931 after having three children: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920-2012), Margaret Biddle and Nicholas Duke Biddle (1921–2004), who was initially named Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, only to have his mother change his name following the divorce. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire but never attended college.īiddle married Mary Lillian Duke, a tobacco heiress, on June 16, 1915. When he was ten years old, the younger Biddle was in an exhibition match with Bob Fitzsimmons, who of course knocked him into a wall with a punch traveling about two inches. His father, grandson of banker Anthony Joseph Drexel and great-grandson of banker Nicholas Biddle was an eccentric boxing fan. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 17, 1897. Biddle was the son of millionaire Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.
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