Anthony Joseph Drexel I
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Anthony Joseph Drexel I (September 13, 1826 – June 30, 1893) was an American financier, banker, partner of J.P. Morgan and founder of Drexel University.
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[edit] Birth
He was born in 1826 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Francis Martin Drexel (1792-1863) and Catherine Hookey (1795-?). He was the brother of Francis Anthony Drexel, who was the father of Saint Katharine Drexel, and Joseph William Drexel.
[edit] Marriage and children
He married Ellen B. Rozet and had the following children: Emily Drexel (1850-1883), who married Edward Biddle III (1851-?); Fannie D. Drexel (1855-1892), who married James William Paul, Jr.; Mae Drexel (1859-?); John Rozet Drexel (1863-1935), who married Alice Gordon Troth (1865-1947); Anthony Joseph Drexel, II (1865-1934); and George William Childs Drexel, who married Mary Stretch Irick (1868-1948).
Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr., son of Anthony II, married Marjorie Gould (1891-1955) of the Gould family. He served as the American Ambassador to Poland between 1937 and 1939.
[edit] Death
He died on June 30, 1893 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic at the age of 66 and was buried in The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Dan Rottenberg, The Man Who Made Wall Street
[edit] External links
- Findagrave: Anthony Joseph Drexel I
- Bibliography of sources about Anthony J. Drexel and the Drexel family
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