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• Anthony Joseph Drexel Sr. (September 13, 1826 – June 30, 1893) was an American banker who played a major role in the rise of modern global finance after the American Civil War. As the dominant partner of Drexel & Co. Of Philadelphia, he founded Drexel, Morgan & Co (later J.P. Morgan & Co.) in New York in 1871 with J.
• Drexel Biddle, Jr. AKA Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Ambassador to governments in exile. Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA Location of death: Washington, DC Cause of dea. Military service: US Army (Major General, WWI and WWII) Father: Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (millionaire, b. 1948) Mother: Cordelia Rundell Bradley Sister: Cordelia.
• Unfortunately, I can't find a copy of the picture taken two seconds after this one, when Colonel Biddle knocked all those Marines flat on their asses. Drexel Biddle, Sr. (1874–1948) was one of the most interesting characters in the history of American knife-fighting.
• Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat A.J. Drexel Biddle on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. First published in 1937, Do or Die served the U.S.Marine Corps through two world wars, training America’s elite soldiers and special agents in the art of hand-to-hand combat.
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (1874-1948) was a pioneer of bayonet and hand-to-hand combat training in the US Marine Corps, and reading the New York Times (February 15, 1942), one learns that: When the first World War started, Colonel Biddle opened a military training camp near Lansdowne Pennsylvania, where he trained 4,000 young.
• BIDDLE, Anthony J, Drexel Colonel Internationally known swordsman and distinguished master of jujitsu, bayonet, and knife fighting. Served with the Marine Corps in two world wars, training Marines in the art of hand-to-hand combat: b.

Widow of T. Markoe Robertson; former wife of Angier Buchanan Duke. Cordelia was a prominent figure in New York society and philanthropic circles.
She served for 35 years as a director of Boys Harbor, a camp in East Hampton, Long Island, for underprivileged children that was established by her family in 1937. She also was a director of the Musicians Emergency Fund and a former chairman of the benefit committee of Southampton Hospital.
She was co-author, with Kyle Crichton, of the book, 'My Philadelphia Father,' a memoir of her father, Col. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle & the story of her life growing up with her father & her family. The book was made into the 1956 Broadway comedy, 'The Happiest Millionaire.' She was the screenwriter for the Disney movie, 'The Happiest Millionaire,'
She was survived by her two sons, Angier Biddle Duke and Anthony Drexel Duke.

On that principle, The Drexel Collection—the University’s flagship collection of art—was founded alongside the University in 1891. Today, the Collection remains a resource for historically and culturally significant works of art as Drexel University pioneers a model for the modern, urban university.

Widow of T. Markoe Robertson; former wife of Angier Buchanan Duke. Cordelia was a prominent figure in New York society and philanthropic circles.
She served for 35 years as a director of Boys Harbor, a camp in East Hampton, Long Island, for underprivileged children that was established by her family in 1937. She also was a director of the Musicians Emergency Fund and a former chairman of the benefit committee of Southampton Hospital.
She was co-author, with Kyle Crichton, of the book, 'My Philadelphia Father,' a memoir of her father, Col. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle & the story of her life growing up with her father & her family. The book was made into the 1956 Broadway comedy, 'The Happiest Millionaire.' She was the screenwriter for the Disney movie, 'The Happiest Millionaire,'
She was survived by her two sons, Angier Biddle Duke and Anthony Drexel Duke.

• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle

  1874–1948

• Cordelia Bradley Biddle

  1873–1947

• Angier Buchanan Duke

  1884–1923 (m. 1915)

• Thomas Markoe Robertson

  1879–1962 (m. 1924)

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• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle

  1897–1961

• Livingston Ludlow Biddle

  1899–1981

• Angier Biddle Duke

  1915–1995

• Anthony Drexel Duke

  1918–2014

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There’s somebody I’d like you to meet, whose example has a lot to offer us in these bumptious and shameless times. Our story is supposed to be about a well-dressed man—one of the best of them all, right up there with Fred Astaire and Gary Cooper, but not as widely remembered today. This is Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., or A.J., all-around winning fellow and definitely one of the top three most stylish men the New World has ever produced.

But alongside the facts, there’s also a message about the qualities that go into being truly stylish—namely, good character and the power of understatement.

A. J. Drexel Biddle Jr

In 1960, Esquire published George Frazier’s essay “The Art of Wearing Clothes.” This seminal piece from the golden age of journalism explores the history of male style and the components that go into it with forensic specificity (prices) and historical scope (his discussion of Lord Byron’s military wardrobe during his service in Greece), not to mention wit (the whole damn thing).

As the article unfolds, one subject emerges as the star: A.J. He was on the cover of Life in 1943, but today he is probably the best-dressed man you’ve never heard of.

Biddle was born in 1897 to inherited wealth in Philadelphia and married into more of it, then came “into himself ” during his service as a diplomat and major general in the U.S. Army. After entering very young into the first of three marriages, and an early career as an investor that could best be described as spotty, the always impeccable dandy took on the quiet and severe line and cut of his later, mature style—the elegance of economy.

Take note, hashtaggers: This he accomplished with only seven suits, as Frazier meticulously explained (one of those suits was somehow acquired by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who kept it in his closet like a talisman and allowed only close friends in for a look).

The suits were made by H. Harris of New York or E. Tautz of London; the latter was known for the broad and low-slung double-breasted jackets worn by Astaire and Cooper from the late 1930s onward. Indeed, had A.J. not been among the originators of the style, upon looking at photographs of him one might say he was “sporting the Tautz,” which is what people in the know used to call it when your lapels were slightly gangster.

In the only picture I have ever seen of A.J. without a jacket, he is in fact wearing a sleeveless undershirt, assisting refugees during the German bombardment of Warsaw in 1939. (He had been ambassador to Poland since 1937.)

Any meditation on the most understatedly elegant male figures of now necessarily involves George Clooney; Bryan Cranston also comes to mind, and my personal favorite is the young king of Bhutan. I think David Letterman is on his way to becoming one of the great figures of American life in the mold of Mark Twain, though that has little to do with clothes. But there is much more to embodying these qualities than what you wear.

Not long before his death I had a conversation with A.J.’s nephew Tony Duke, himself the epitome of dash, American sportsmanship and kindness at the age of 94. Tony remembered his uncle very vividly and with a certain amount of tenderness. The sum of the stories he told about A.J. made it clear that he was a great male character and got better with age.

We barely talked about clothes. My favorite story was one he told in tones of understatement that seem to have run in the family and are in notably short supply today. During the late days of the war, A.J. took Tony to lunch at the London Ritz. After the meal and a visit to A.J.’s tailor (Tautz, of course, from whom Tony ordered one pair of trousers), A.J. said, “I want you to come meet a nice fellow.” He took his nephew to U.S. Army headquarters, and it turned out the nice fellow was Eisenhower. Tony, being so close to A.J., was warmly received. D-Day was five days later.

A&j Drexel Biddle Jr

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