

They divorced in 1931 after having two children: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920-2012) 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.

īiddle married Mary Lillian Duke, a tobacco heiress, on June 16, 1915. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire but never attended college. 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.
