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unusual facts about Anthony Joseph Drexel


Anthony Joseph Drexel

Drexel died of a heart attack on June 30, 1893 in Karlsbad (in the German-speaking part of Bohemia, Austrian Empire) today Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic at the age of 66, and was buried in The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.


Constance Drexel

As early as 1915 (in American press reports) and as late as the 1940s (in Nazi broadcasts), she was described as a member of the “famous Drexel family” of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an apparent reference to the descendants of Francis Martin Drexel (who founded the Drexel & Company banking empire), including his son Anthony Joseph Drexel (who founded Drexel University in Philadelphia) and his granddaughter Saint Katharine Drexel.

John Jacob Astor VI

He is a great-great-grandson of banker Anthony Joseph Drexel and a grandson of Ralph Francis Julian Stonor.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Her cousin twice removed, Charles John Biddle, was an aviator in World War I, and great-great-granduncle Edward Biddle (1851–1933) married the daughter of banker Anthony Joseph Drexel.


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