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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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Birth

Marriage and children

Death

See also

References

External links

Birth

He was born in 1826 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Francis Martin Drexel (1792-1863) and Catherine Hookey (1795-1870). He was the brother of Francis Anthony Drexel, who was the father of Saint Katharine Drexel, and Joseph William Drexel.

Marriage and children

He married Ellen B. Rozet (1832-1981) and had the following children: Emilie Drexel (1851-1883), who married Edward Biddle III (1851-?); Frances Katherine Drexel (1855-1892), who married James William Paul, Jr.; Mae E. Drexel (1859-1886) married Charles T. Stewart; John Rozet Drexel (1863-1935), who married Alice Gordon Troth (1865-1947); Anthony Joseph Drexel II (1865-1934) married Margarita Armstrong; and George William Childs Drexel, who married Mary Stretch Irick (1868-1948).

Death

He died of a heart attack on June 30, 1893 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic at the age of 66 and was buried in The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.

See also

★ Drexel University

References

★ Dan Rottenberg, ''The Man Who Made Wall Street'' copyright 2001. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

External links

★ Findagrave: Anthony Joseph Drexel I

★ Bibliography of sources about Anthony J. Drexel and the Drexel family