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Henry Jonathan Biddle (1862–1928) was a botanist, engineer, and businessman of southwest Washington as well as Portland, Oregon in the early 20th century. He owned about 360 acres of real estate in and around Vancouver, Washington .
Mary Deborah Baird (1829–1900), endowed Biddle University, married distant cousin Henry Jonathan Biddle (1817–1862) who was a grandson of Clement Biddle; Valeria Fullerton Biddle, married Charles Bingham Penrose (1798–1857), Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate, Solicitor of the United States Treasury, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Maury Henry Biddle Paul (April 14, 1890 – July 17, 1942) was an American journalist who became famous as a society columnist for the New York American (which became the New York Journal-American in 1937 when it merged with the New York Evening Journal). Writing under the pseudonym "Cholly Knickerbocker", he coined the term "Café Society". [1]
Nicholas Biddle (January 8, 1786 – February 27, 1844) was an American financier who served as the third and last president of the Second Bank of the United States (chartered 1816–1836). [1] Throughout his life Biddle worked as an editor, diplomat, author, and politician who served in both houses of the Pennsylvania state legislature.
Maury Henry Biddle Paul - gossip columnist known as "Cholly Knickerbocker" [7] M. Night Shyamalan - film producer and director, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village, The Lady in the Water, Signs, Split, Glass, Old, Knock at the Cabin; multiple Academy Award nominee [1] [8]
Johnson C. Smith University was established on April 7, 1867, as the Biddle Memorial Institute at a meeting of the Catawba Presbytery in the old Charlotte Presbyterian Church. Mary D. Biddle donated $1,400 to the school. The school was then named after her late husband, Henry Jonathan Biddle, who had died after the Battle of Glendale in 1862.
Maury Henry Biddle Paul: 20th-century journalist who is credited with coining the term "Cafe′ Society" Rob Pearlstein: Academy Award-nominated writer and director; Norman Pearlstine: past editor-in-chief of Time Inc. I. M. Pei: modernist architect; briefly attended in 1935 before transferring to MIT
Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "café society" in 1915. Members attended each other's private dinners and balls, and took holidays in exotic locations or at elegant resorts.