The Biddle family of

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

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is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681.

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s, they had emigrated from England in part to escape religious persecution. Having acquired extensive rights to more than of lands in

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, they settled first at Burlington, a city which developed along the east side of the Delaware River. William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756), and John Biddle (1707–1789), two third-generation brothers, moved from Mount Hope (1684) near Bordentown, also on the east side of the Delaware, to

, Pennsylvania in the 1720s and 1730s. They constituted the first generation of the

Biddle family, which became involved in the business, political and cultural life of Pennsylvania and the United States.

Family members

Branch of William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756) and Mary Scull (1709–1789)

* William Biddle, 3rd (1698–1756) and Mary Scull (1709–1790) ** James Biddle (1731–1797), prothonotary of Philadelphia courts, married Frances Marks *** Marks John Biddle (1765–1849), married Jane Dundas ** Lydia Biddle (1734–1767), married William McFunn (?–1768), captain in the

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and Governor of the Island of Antigua, West Indies *** William McFunn Biddle (1764–1809), married Lydia Spencer (1766–1858), daughter of Elihu Spencer, niece of John Berrien and sister-in-law of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant **** Lydia Spencer Biddle (1797–1871), married Samuel Baird (1786–1833) *****

Spencer Fullerton Baird Spencer Fullerton Baird (; February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually ...

(1823–1887), first U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries and second secretary of the

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, married Mary Helen Churchill (1846–?) ***** 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 Charles Bingham Penrose (February 1, 1862 – February 28, 1925) was an American gynecologist, surgeon, zoologist and conservationist, known for inventing a type of surgical drainage tubing called the Penrose drain. He was a professor at the ...

(1798–1857), Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate, Solicitor of the United States Treasury, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury **** William McFunn Biddle, Jr., married Julian Montgomery **** Mary Elizabeth Dagworthy Biddle (1805–1879), married Maj. George Blaney (1795–1835), captain with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers **** Edward Biddle, married Julia H. Watts ***** David W. Biddle ***** Lydia Spencer Biddle, ***** Charles Penrose Biddle ***** Frederick W. Biddle ***** Edward William Biddle (1852–1931), married Gertrude Dale Bosler ****** Herman Bosler Biddle (1883–1909) ****** Edward McFunn Biddle (1886–?) ***** William McFunn Biddle ** John "Jacky" Biddle (1736–?) married Sophia Boone *** Edward Biddle, bought Biddle House on Mackinac Island *** William Biddle married Abigail Johnson **** Joseph Cadwalader Biddle (1805–1884) married Elizabeth Cook (died 1899) ***** William Biddle married Anna W.? ****** Frederick Davis Biddle married Estelle Warne Harbeson ******* Eric Harbeson Biddle (1898–1993), businessman and diplomat, assisted Franklin D. Roosevelt during the creation of the

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and the United Nations Establishment Commissions (married Katherine Rogers, the daughter of Colonel John I. Rogers). ******** Eric Harbeson Biddle Jr. (1928–2012), CIA Section Chief, later immigration lawyer ******** John "Jack" Biddle ******** Maurice R. Biddle (1932–1999), jazz composer and pianist, also advertising executive in Philadelphia and New York City **

Edward Biddle Edward Biddle (1738–1779) was an American soldier, lawyer, and statesman from Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775 and a signatory to the Continental Association, which was drafted and adopted by that C ...

(1738–1779), lawyer, soldier, delegate to the

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, married Elizabeth Ross (sister of George Ross) ** Charles Biddle (1745–1821), politician and Vice President of the Supreme Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, married Hannah Shepard ***

James Biddle James Biddle (February 18, 1783 – October 1, 1848), of the Biddle family, brother of financier Nicholas Biddle and nephew of Capt. Nicholas Biddle, was an American commodore. His flagship was . Education and early career Biddle was born in ...

(1783–1848), US Navy Commodore *** Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844), president of the Second Bank of the United States, married Jane Craig **** Edward Biddle (1815–1873), married Jane Josephine Sarmiento ***** Edward Biddle III (1851–1933), married Emilie Taylor Drexel (1851–1883) daughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel ******

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. (October 1, 1874 – May 27, 1948) was a millionaire whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis. He was the man upon whom the book ''M ...

(1874–1948), subject of novel (written by his daughter), which was adapted as the Broadway play and

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motion picture '' The Happiest Millionaire'' ******* Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1897–1961), U.S. ambassador to seven different countries, married Mary Duke (1887–1960), the sister of Angier Buchanan Duke ********

Mary Duke Biddle Mary Lillian Duke Biddle (November 16, 1887 – June 14, 1960) was an American philanthropist. Early life She was born as Mary Lillian Duke on November 16, 1887, to Benjamin Newton Duke in Durham, North Carolina. She attended Durham's Trinit ...

(1920–2012), heiress and philanthropist ******** Nicholas Duke Biddle (1921–2004) ******* Cordelia Drexel Biddle (1898–1984), married Angier Buchanan Duke (1884–1923), the brother of Mary Duke ******** Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995), U.S. Ambassador to

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by ...

1952–1953, U.S. Ambassador to

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1965–1968, U.S. Ambassador to

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1979–1981, member of the

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******** Anthony Drexel Duke (1918–2014) ******* Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1899–1981) married Kate Raboteau Page (1903–?), daughter of

Robert N. Page Robert Newton Page (October 26, 1859 – October 3, 1933) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from North Carolina. Born in Cary, North Carolina, Page attended the Cary High School and Bingham Military School in Meb ...

******** Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1926–2009) married Elizabeth "Betsy" Elwell Collin in 1953 ****** Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1877–1959), married Rosalie Eugenia Carter Law (1890–1980) ******* Livingston Ludlow Biddle Jr. (1918–2002), chairman

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******* Ernest Law Biddle (1919–1970) ****** Edward Craig Biddle (1879–1947), tennis player, married firstly Laura Baker Whelen (1879–1925) ******* Craig Biddle Jr. (1902–1988) ******* George Drexel Biddle (1903–1952) ******* Laura May Biddle Stewart **** Charles John Biddle (1819–1873), Civil War colonel and U.S. Congressman, married Emma Mather (1830–1918) ***** Charles Biddle (1857–1923) married Letitia Glenn ****** Charles John Biddle (1890–1972),

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

aviator and lawyer ***** Alexander Mercer Biddle (1865–?), married Marriet Fox (1867–?) ****** Sydney Biddle (1901–?), married Donald Byers Barrows (1898–1991) ******* Donald Byers Barrows Jr. (1926–2019), married Jeannette Ballantine (1930–2011) ******** Sydney Biddle Barrows (born January 14, 1952), New York City madam and author, known as the "Mayflower Madam" *** Thomas Biddle (1790–1831),

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It ...

hero who died after a

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with a Missouri Congressman over a perceived insult to his brother Nicholas *** John Biddle (1792–1859),

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politician, married Eliza Falconer Bradish **** Magaretta Falconer Biddle (1825–1913), married General Andrew Porter (1820–1872) **** William Shepard Biddle (1830–1901), married Susan Dayton Ogden ***** John Biddle (1859–1936), Superintendent of the

United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known Metonymy, metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a f ...

***** William Shepard Biddle II (1863–1938), married Margaret Alden Burrell ****** William Shepard Biddle III (1900–1981), Major General in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

*** Richard Biddle (1796–1847), U.S. Representative ** Nicholas Biddle (1750–1778), Revolutionary War Navy captain

Branch of John Biddle (1707–1789) and Sarah Owen (1711–1773)

*John Biddle (1707–1789) and Sarah Owen (1711–1773) **

Owen Biddle, Sr. Owen Biddle Sr. (1737 – March 10, 1799) was a clockmaker and watchmaker by trade, a merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an American Revolutionary War Colonel, and an astronomer and scientist. Ancestors and early life He was a great-grandson ...

(1737–1799),

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of ...

soldier, mathematician, astronomer, observed 1769 transit of Venus at Cape Henlopen, member of the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communi ...

, married Sarah Parke *** John Biddle (1763–1815) **** William Biddle (1806–1887), married Elizabeth Garrett (1806–1881) ***** Samuel Biddle (1844–1919), Bailey Banks & Biddle jewelry store *** Owen Biddle Jr. (1774–1806), member of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, architect-builder, author "The Young Carpenters' Apprentice" (1805) *** Clement Biddle (1778–1856), married Mary Canby (1780–1849) **** Robert M. Biddle (1814–1902), married Anna Miller (1823–1891) ***** Henry Canby Biddle (1845–1886), married Anna Mary McIlvain (1850–1926) ****** Robert Ralston Biddle (1885–?), lent name to Biddle Motor Car Company ** Clement Biddle (1740–1814),

soldier, helped organize the “Quaker Blues" volunteers, deputy quartermaster general of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey militia, married Rebekah Cornell (born 1755) daughter of Gideon Cornell *** Francis Biddle (1775–1775) *** Thomas Alexander Biddle, Sr. (1776–1857), married Christine Williams (1780–1861) **** Clement Biddle (1810–1879), prominent Philadelphia lawyer, served during the Civil War in Landis' Battery, Pennsylvania Militia Light Artillery. **** Thomas Alexander Biddle Jr. (1814–1888), married Julia Cox (1819–1906). He was the senior partner of the firm of Thomas A. Biddle & Co., bankers and brokers, and a director of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, the Allentown Iron Company, the Equitable Life Insurance Company, and other corporations. **** Henry Jonathan Biddle (1817–1862), married distant cousin Mary Deborah Baird (1829–1900), who endowed Biddle University. He served as a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War; he was mortally wounded during the battle of New Market Cross Roads ***** Jonathan Williams Biddle (1855–1877), served during the War with the Plains Indians. He was killed at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana when his regiment charged a camp of Nez Perce Indians. ***** Henry Jonathan Biddle (1862–1928), Oregon/Washington engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. In 1915 he bought the Columbia Gorge landmark Beacon Rock and developed a trail to its peak; his children Spencer and Rebecca donated it to Washington as a state park. **** Alexander Williams Biddle Sr. (1819–1899), lieutenant colonel in the

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during the

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, married Julia Williams Rush (1833–1898) granddaughter of Benjamin Rush ***** Alexander Williams Biddle Jr. (1856–1916), married Anne McKennan (1858–1934) ****** Julia Rush Biddle (1886–1978), married Thomas Charlton Henry (1887–1930), mother-in-law of Philip D. Armour Jr. ****** Alexander Biddle (1893–1973), married Margot Scull (1896–1972) ***** Henry Rush Biddle (1858–1877) ***** Julia Rush Biddle (1859–1885) ***** James Wilmer Biddle (1861–1927), married Cora Rowland (1861–1927) ***** Mariamne Biddle (1866–1917) ***** Lynford Biddle (1871–1941) **** Jonathan Williams Biddle (1821–1856), married Emily Skinner Meigs (1824–1905) ***** Christine Biddle (1847–1900), married Richard McCall Cadwalader (1839–1918) ***** Charles Meigs Biddle (1849–1853) ***** Williams Biddle (1850–1852) ***** Mary Biddle (1851–1851) ***** Thomas Biddle (1853–1915) ***** Emily Williams Biddle (1855–1931) *** George Washington Biddle (1779–1811) *** Mary Biddle (1781–1850) married Thomas Cadwalader (1779–1841) son of General John Cadwalader *** Rebekah Cornell Biddle (1782–1870), married Nathaniel Chapman (1780–1853) *** Clement Cornell Biddle (1784–1855), married Mary Searle Barclay (1785–1872) **** John Barclay Biddle (1815–1879), married Caroline Phillips (1821–1906) ***** William Phillips Biddle (1853–1923), 11th

Commandant Commandant ( or ) is a title often given to the officer in charge of a military (or other uniformed service) training establishment or academy. This usage is common in English-speaking nations. In some countries it may be a military or police ran ...

of the

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(1910–1914) **** George Washington Biddle (1818–1897), married Maria Coxe McMurtrie (1818–1901) ***** George Washington Biddle Jr. (1843–1886), married Mary Hosack Rogers ***** Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891) married Frances Robinson ****** Moncure Biddle (1882–1956), a banker ****** George Biddle (1885–1973), an artist ******

Francis Beverly Biddle Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886 – October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was the United States Attorney General during World War II. He also served as the primary American judge during the postwar Nuremberg Trials as well a ...

(1886–1968), US Attorney General, and primary American judge during the

Nuremberg trials The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded ...

****** Sydney Geoffrey Biddle (1889–1954), a psychologist ******* Oliver Cadwell Biddle, married to Katharine Mortimer (1923–2003) ******** Christine Mortimer Biddle, married to Thomas George Reeves in 1972. ***** Arthur Biddle (1852–1897) **** Chapman Biddle (1822–1880), Civil War colonel *** Anne Biddle (1785–1786) *** Lydia H. Biddle (1787–1826) *** Sarah T. Biddle (1789–1790) *** Anne Wilkinson Biddle (1791–?), married Thomas Dunlap (1793–1864) *** John Gideon Biddle (1793–1826), married his cousin Mary Biddle (?–1854) *** James Cornell Biddle (1795–1838), married Sarah Caldwell Keppele (1789–1877) daughter of

Michael Keppele Michael Keppele (September 9, 1771 – February 2, 1821) was a lawyer, alderman, and mayor of Philadelphia, 1811–1812. Graduated from the University of the State of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pennsylvania) in 1788. He was admitted to the ...

(1771–1821) **** Thomas Biddle (diplomat) (1827–1875), married Sarah Frederica White (1845–1870) **** Caldwell Keppele Biddle (1829–1862) **** Catherine Keppele Biddle (1831–1914), married William P. Tatham (1820–1899) **** Rebecca Biddle (1833–1859) **** James Cornell Biddle (1835–1898), married Gertrude Gouverneur Meredith (1839–1905). He served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. **** Cadwalader Biddle (1837–1906), founder of Union League of Philadelphia ** Ann Biddle (1742–1807), married

James Wilkinson James Wilkinson (March 24, 1757 – December 28, 1825) was an American soldier, politician, and double agent who was associated with several scandals and controversies. He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, ...

(1757–1825) *** John Wilkinson (1780–1796) *** James Biddle Wilkinson (c. 1783–1813) *** Joseph Biddle Wilkinson (1789–1865), married to Catherine Andrews (1785–1861) **** Joseph Biddle Wilkinson Jr. (1817–1902), married to Josephine Osborne Stark (1823–1908) ***** Joseph Biddle Wilkinson III (1845–1915), married to Lydia Duval (d. 1937) ***** Theodore Stark Wilkinson (1847–1921), a U.S. Representative from Louisiana. ****** Theodore Stark Wilkinson (1888–1946), a Vice-Admiral of the

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during

*** Walter Wilkinson (1791–1837), married to Emilia Louise Valle (1793–1849)

Branch of Joseph Biddle (1705-1776) and Rebecca Arney (b. 1709)

* Arney Biddle (1735-1777),

soldier, died at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11th, 1777, married Abigail Ogden (1733-1801) **Catharine Biddle married Samuel Taylor ***Jonathan Taylor (1800-1866), married Rebecca McPherson ****Beulah Taylor (1850-1918), married Benjamin Lunt Cook (1840-1918), he was the double first-cousin of Dr. Nathan Cook Brackett, Founder of Storer College in

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia. It is located in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The population was 285 at the 2020 census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where the U.S. stat ...

site of John Brown (abolitionist) raid on the U.S. Arsenal. *Sarah Biddle married Joseph Harker **Hetty Harker (1783-1853), married William Foster ***Hetty Harker Foster (1814-1848), married Edward Canby Biddle (1808-1893), son of John Biddle, grandson of

****William Foster Biddle (1834-1910), married Emily A. Leavitt (1838-1903), daughter of mining engineer John W. Leavitt, during the

he served as an aide-de-camp, with the rank of Captain, U.S. Volunteers on the staff of General George B. McClellan. He was the uncle of American artist

Cecilia Beaux Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, whose subjects included First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau. Trained in Philadelphia, she went on to study in ...

whom Beaux would later describe as "after my grandmother, the strongest and most beneficent influence in my life." Cecilia Beaux's niece married William Christian Bullitt Jr. a great-grandson of early Philadelphia Jewish doctor Jonas Horwitz, his grandfather founded the law firm

Drinker Biddle & Reath Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, also known as Faegre Drinker, is a full-service international law firm and one of the 50 largest law firms headquartered in the United States. Faegre Drinker provides legal counseling and litigation to a wide range ...

and his daughter Anne Moen Bullitt married Nicholas Duke Biddle.https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=177365675 Emily A. Leavitt was the daughter of prominent

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businessman John Wheeler Leavitt he was an associate of John Jacob Astor and served as director of Bank of America. His first-cousin was

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. David was co-partner in a firm called Leavitt & Lee after his departure the firm became Reed & Lee in 1922 and then Lee, Dater, & Miller. Miller's daughter Helen Day Miller married

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. Jay Gould's eldest daughter married Anthony Joseph Drexel II, a descendant of financier Anthony Joseph Drexel among whose descendants married into the Joseph Pulitzer family, the Vanderbilt family, the

Isidor Strauss Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912) was a Bavarian-born American Jewish businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served for just over a year as a member of the United Sta ...

family, & financier Jacob Schiff family who was the leader of New York City's Jewish community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other connected families include the Kuhn & Loeb families founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the Warburg family, and the

Rothschild family The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of F ...

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''; August 17, 1933 "Helen Avis Howard Engaged To Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Clinton Howard, of Atlanta, have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Helen Avis Howard, to Mr. Anthony Joseph Drexel 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel, jr., of Philadelphia." * ''

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''; October 14, 2004 "Nicholas Duke Biddle, 83, Scion Of Wealth Who Helped the Poor. Nicholas Duke Biddle, scion of two prominent American families who helped refugees from Cuba and Caribbean, dies at age 83. Mr. Biddle was originally named Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, after his father, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a prominent diplomat."

Citations

External links

* Th
Biddle Family Papers
documenting the personal, professional and social life of members of the Biddle family from 1683–1954, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. * William & Sarah Biddle's MOUNT HOPE, West Jersey (1684-2007/8

* Nicholas & Sarah Biddle's MELMAR, Pennsylvania (1910-

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