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Effingham B. Morris is a life member of the Union League and University clubs; a member of the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, Penn Athletic and other clubs, the Sons of the Revolution, Colonial, and other societies, and of the Chamber of Commerce of New York City. Politically, he is a Republican.
On November 5, 1879, in Philadelphia, Mr. Morris married Ellen Douglas Burroughs, the youngest daughter of H. Nelson and Caroline (Mitchell) Bur- roughs, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Morris died April 30, 1925. She was a descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, who made the historic voyage on the "Mayflower," and was the first physician in New England. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were the parents of the following children :
I. Rhoda, widow of George Clymer Brooke, of Philadelphia, who married, after his death, Trenchard E. Newbold, of Philadelphia. Her children are: Rhoda M. Brooke, now Mrs. John Gardiner, Jr., of Philadelphia; George Clymer Brooke, Jr., of Philadelphia, and Trenchard E. Newbold, Jr.
2. Eleanor Burroughs, wife of Stacy B. Lloyd, of Philadelphia (q. v.). Her children are : Ellen Douglas Lloyd, who married Austin Dunham, of Hartford, Connecticut ; Stacy B. Lloyd, Jr., and Morris Lloyd.
3. Caroline, wife of J. Frederic Byers, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her children are : Alexander M. Byers, John Frederic, Jr., Nancy Lee Byers, and Buckley Morris Byers.
4. Effingham Buckley, Jr., whose biography follows.
(IX) EFFINGHAM BUCKLEY MORRIS, JR., son of Effingham Buckley and Ellen Douglas (Burroughs) Morris, was born August 26, 1890, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. He attended Haverford School, graduating in 1907. In the autumn of that year he entered Yale University, and in 1911 received the degree of Bache- lor of Arts. After leaving Yale he entered the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1915. The same year he was admitted to the bar, and in association with Harry Ingersoll, entered immediately upon the practice of law. This was interrupted by the entrance of the United States into the World War. On May 10, 1917, Mr. Morris received a commission as second lieutenant of cav- alry, having since 1912 been a member of the First Troop of Philadelphia City
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Cavalry, which he joined just one hundred years after the death of his ancestor, Captain Samuel Morris, who commanded the troop during the Revolution, and died in 1812. On August 15, 1917, at the training camp at Fort Niagara, he received his commission as captain of cavalry and was assigned to duty with the infantry at Camp Meade, Maryland, where he commanded Company K, Three Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, Seventy-ninth Division. On July 8, 1918, he sailed for France with the Expeditionary Forces, and from September 13 to Octo- ber 15 saw active service in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, where his company, under his command, was one of the two assault companies leading the attack of the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment on the town of Montfaucon, Sep- tember 26, 1918, which was captured September 27, 1918. On September 27, 1918, he was wounded in the leg, but remained on the field and took command of the Third Battalion, Three Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry, after the battalion com- mander, and the ranking captain who succeeded him, had both been wounded and evacuated. On October 20, 1918, he was given his majority. He returned to the United States in command of the Second Battalion, Three Hundred and Thir- teenth Infantry, and on June 25, 1919, received an honorable discharge. For his conduct at Montfaucon, Major Morris was awarded the distinguished Service Cross of the United States Army, and was subsequently awarded the Croix de Guerre wth Palm by Marshal Petain, of the French Army. He was also created a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur of France, and awarded the cross of that order.
Following his return to Philadelphia, Mr. Morris practiced his profession until May 17, 1928, at which time he was elected a vice-president of The Girard Trust Company, which office he now holds. He is a member of the Board of City Trusts, a director of the United Gas Improvement Company, Lehigh Valley Railroad, First National Bank of Philadelphia, and other corporations. His clubs are the Philadelphia, Racquet, Penn Athletic (of which he is a founder mem- ber and vice-president), Merion Cricket, University Barge, Whitemarsh Val- ley Hunt, and Pickering Hunt. He was a member of Alpha Delta Fraternity and the Scroll and Key Society, of Yale University.
On February 19, 1917, Mr. Morris married, in Philadelphia, Julia Peabody Lewis, daughter of Francis Draper and Mary Humphreys (Chandler) Lewis, of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Morris are the parents of the following children :
I. Effingham Buckley (3d), born November 20, 1917.
2. Julia Pemberton, born January 15, 1922.
These children represent the sixth generation of the Morris family in continu- ous occupation of the old Morris house, No. 225 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia, where their parents live.
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Lloyd
Lloyd and Howell are names that connote Welsh ancestry and a notable place in the ancient and modern history of Wales, with an equal prominence in Penn- sylvania's Colonial development.
STACY BARCROFT LLOYD, of this record, vice-president of The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, and a member of the Philadelphia bar, was born August 1, 1876, in Camden, New Jersey, and is a son of the late Malcolm and Anna (Howell) Lloyd.
MALCOLM LLOYD, the eldest son of John and Esther Barton ( Malcolm) Lloyd, was born at Philadelphia on July 18, 1838, and died at his country home at Devon, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1911. He married, July 10, 1869, Anna Howell, daughter of Richard W. and Mary T. (Carpenter) Howell, of Camden, New Jersey.
Mr. Lloyd was descended from ROBERT LLOYD, a member of the Society of Friends, who emigrated from Wales about 1684, and who, with his brother, Thomas Lloyd, took up a considerable tract of land in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County. This tract was part of the extensive area known as "Merion in the Welsh Tract," acquired by members of the Society of Friends from Wil- liam Penn before he came to Pennsylvania, and subsequently located to the west of Philadelphia between the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers.
This Robert Lloyd married Lowry Jones, at the Old Merion Meeting House, on August 13, 1688. The ancestry of each may be traced through a long line of Welsh progenitors. Robert Lloyd died in 1714, while still a young man, having been active in the religious and political affairs of the new colony. In direct line of descent from him there followed Richard, Isaac, Isaac, John, and Malcolm Lloyd.
While in the beginning the colony was entirely controlled by the Quaker ele- ment, the beliefs of the Society of Friends were strongly opposed to warfare, and recognizing the incompatibility of these tenets with the practical necessities of a small community open to attack from settlements of other nationalities and con- stantly threatened by Indian uprising, the Friends voluntarily relinquished their political control and declined to accept offices that would impose upon them duties repugnant to the dictates of conscience. From 1750 onwards, therefore, few mem- bers of the Society of Friends are to be found in military or political office. Dur- ing the Revolutionary period, however, many of them found it possible to be of assistance to the cause, and the gristmills at Chester owned by Richard and Isaac Lloyd helped to supply the Continental Army. Through his mother, Esther Barton (Malcolm) Lloyd, Mr. Lloyd was descended from John Malcolm, an officer in the naval forces during the French and Indian wars; and from a number of the earliest settlers in New England. Her grandfather, Dr. Henry Malcolm, served with distinction in the Continental Navy, and was later appointed, by Presi- dent Washington, Collector of the District of Hudson. His wife, Rebecca Olney,
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was the daughter of Captain Joseph Olney, who commanded the brig "Cabot," and later the frigate "Queen of France," during the Revolutionary period. Among her ancestors in the Paget, Olney, Checkley, Brown, and Whipple lines were num- bered founders of Providence Plantations, incorporators named in the original charter granted the Colony of Rhode Island, and others who played an active and important part in laying the foundations of New England in early Colonial days.
Anna (Howell) Lloyd, wife of Malcolm Lloyd, was born September 12, 1848, and died in Philadelphia, January 24, 1913. She was the daughter of Rich- ard Washington and Mary Tonkin (Carpenter) Howell. Mrs. Lloyd was seventh in descent from John Howell, who came to Philadelphia from Wales in 1697.
Jacob Howell, son of John Howell, was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, and removed to Chester in 1707.
John Ladd Howell, the fourth in line, born in 1739, and died in 1785, through inheritance from his mother, Katharine (Ladd) Howell, became heir to "Candor Hall," an extensive property in New Jersey. His son, Colonel Joshua Howell, acquired considerable additional tracts in New Jersey, and in the early part of the eighteen hundreds, built "Fancy Hill," overlooking the Delaware, which for upwards of a hundred years remained the home of the family. This Colonel Howell commanded a regiment of New Jersey militia during the War of 1812. In 1786, he married Anna Blackwood, whose grandfather, John Blackwood, came from Scotland to this country and gave his name to Blackwoodtown, New Jersey.
Mary Tonkin (Carpenter) Howell, the mother of Mrs. Lloyd, was descended from Samuel Carpenter, the first treasurer of the Province of Pennsylvania, a friend of William Penn, and the most prominent merchant of his day. He died in 1717. Through Hannah Preston, who married Samuel Carpenter, Jr., in 1711, she was descended from Thomas Lloyd, the first Deputy Governor of Pennsyl- vania appointed by Penn, 1684-88 and 1690-93. Through the Strattons, Clements, Harrisons, Collins, Tonkins and other lines, she was descended from those who were among the first to settle in Long Island, the Jerseys, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
The children of Malcolm and Anna ( Howell) Lloyd were:
I. Howell.
2. Malcolm, Jr.
3. Stacy B., of this review.
4. Francis V.
5. Anna Howell, who married Nathan Hayward.
6. Esther, who married Arthur V. Morton.
7. Mary C., who married L. Caspar Wister.
At the age of sixteen, after a good common school education, Malcolm Lloyd entered the employment of Caleb Cope & Company, one of the old Quaker mer- chant firms of Philadelphia, and with them obtained his preliminary business training. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Grey Reserves. While his regiment was not involved in the more protracted campaigns, it was called out at the time of Lee's advance to Antietam and again at the time of Gettysburg.
At the conclusion of the Civil War Mr. Lloyd became interested in what was then the new industry of oil refining. In 1867, he built a refinery at Gibson's Point, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, below Bartram's Gardens. This
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was known as the Phoenix Works, and soon attained an important position in its field of operation. It was purchased by The Atlantic Refining Company in 1887, and in 1900 Mr. Lloyd became the acting head of the last-named company, and so continued until his retirement from active business.
Mr. Lloyd was a director of the Girard National Bank, the Trust Company of North America, the Delaware Insurance Company, the Atlantic Refining Company, and various corporations engaged in the oil industry. For many years Mr. Lloyd was one of the Executive Council of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, and ren- dered important public service in furthering the measures necessary for an ade- quate development of the harbor and port of Philadelphia.
Throughout his life Mr. Lloyd took an active interest in the affairs of the Episcopal Church. For thirty years he was a member of the vestry of St. Luke's Church (now the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany), and throughout that period served either as accounting warden or as rector's warden. He was a mem- ber of the vestry of the Church of the Crucifixion, a trustee of the Philadelphia Divinity School, a member of the Board of the Seaman's Missionary Association, and other religious and charitable organizations. True to all of the obligations of family, upright in all business relationships, generous in his service to the general welfare, he enjoyed to a marked degree the respect and affection of those with whom he was associated, and exercised in his community an extensive and benefi- cent influence.
STACY B. LLOYD was educated at the Penn Charter and Lawrenceville (New Jersey ) schools, and at Princeton University, graduating in 1898. In 1901, he graduated from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, and for five years was associated in the general practice of law in Philadelphia with the firm of Reed & Pettit, afterwards entering the legal department of the Pennsylvania Railroad as assistant general solicitor, subsequently becoming assistant general counsel. In July, 1921, he resigned from the railroad and became a vice-president of The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, the oldest institution of its kind in the United States. He is a director of the Philadelphia National Bank, the Merchants' Fund and the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company, and a manager of The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society.
Politically, Mr. Lloyd is a Republican. During the World War he was asso- ciate counsel of the Food Administration in Pennsylvania, resigning this office to enter the army as major judge advocate, in which capacity he served overseas from July, 1918, to June, 1919. His clubs number the Philadelphia, Princeton, Gulph Mills Golf, Merion Cricket, and the Ivy, of Princeton. He is a member of the Church of the Redeemer, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lloyd married, October 25, 1902, Eleanor Burroughs Morris, daughter of Effingham B. and Ellen Douglas (Burroughs) Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd are the parents of the following children :
I. Elleti Douglas, born August 7, 1903; educated at St. Timothy's School, Catonsville, Maryland; married, October 18, 1924, Austin Dunham, of Hartford, Connecticut.
2. Stacy Barcroft, Jr., born July 8, 1908, educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; a graduate of Princeton, and now attending the University of Penn- sylvania Law School.
3. Morris, born April 20, 1913; graduated from Montgomery School, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
Biddle
Distinguished service in several generations has been rendered to the Nation through various professional and business occupations by representatives of the family of Biddle, of which the late Thomas Alexander Biddle, well-known Phila- delphia banker, was a member, and whose Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry follows :
(I) WILLIAM BIDDLE, pioneer ancestor of the Biddle family of Philadelphia, was born near London, England, about 1630, and left that city in July, 1681, for New Jersey, in the American Colonies. He is said to have been an officer in the Parliamentary Army during the Civil War in England, but soon after its close joined the Society of Friends. The names of William, Esther and Thomas Biddle appear on a list of Quakers sent to Newgate Prison for adherence to their faith. William is also said to have been imprisoned by Mayor Brown for attendance at "non-conformist" meetings. Esther Biddle, possibly his mother, an eminent Friend, suffered persecution for "truth's sake" at different periods.
William Biddle purchased, in 1676, of William Penn and others a one-half share of the lands of West Jersey, and became one of the Proprietaries of that Province. His subsequent purchases brought his total holdings in the Province to 43,000 acres. As late as September 26, 1682, he and his family resided in Burling- ton. In December of that year he acquired possession of the island called "Sepas- swick," later known as "Biddle's Island," in the Delaware River, "over against Burlington," and containing two hundred and seventy-eight acres; and in January, 1681-82, five hundred acres on the Delaware, "over against Seppassinck Island." He named this plantation "Mount Hope," and made it his residence. It remained the home of his descendants for many generations. He and his wife were promi- nent as Friends. He held various offices as follows : Justice of Burlington County, one of the ten members of the Governor's Council, one of the trustees selected by the Proprietors to conduct the business of the Proprietorship, later serving as president of the board; a representative in the General Assembly of the Province. He died at "Mount Hope" in 1712.
William Biddle married, 12 mo. 7, 1665, at Bishopgate Street Friends' Meet- ing, Sarah Kemp, born in 1634, died in New Jersey, 2 mo. 27, 1709. They were the parents of five children, of whom was William (2), of whom further.
(II) WILLIAM (2) BIDDLE, only surviving son of William and Sarah (Kemp) Biddle, was born December 4, 1669, died at Mount Hope, New Jersey, in 1743. He, like his father, was prominent in the affairs of West Jersey, and in 1703 was appointed by the Council of Proprietors to treat with the Indians for lands above the "Falls." At the death of his father he inherited 12,905 acres of land in the Lot- ting Purchase. He died about 1743. He married, about 1695, Lydia Wardell, granddaughter of Eliakim Wardell, successively sheriff of Monmouth County, member of the House of Deputies and member of the General Assembly; and great-granddaughter of Thomas Wardell, French Huguenot, who settled in New
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England about the middle of the seventeenth century. William (2) and Lydia (Wardell) Biddle had six children, of whom was John, of whom further.
(III) JOHN BIDDLE, third son and youngest child of William (2) and Lydia (Wardell) Biddle, was born at the family's ancestral home, "Mount Hope," New Jersey, in 1707, and left there with his brother, William, in 1730, and located in Philadelphia, where he was a successful business man for many years. He mar- ried, March 3, 1736, Sarah Owen, daughter of Owen Owen, a wealthy farmer and a descendant of the family of Owen, of Dolly Sene, Wales, one of the most ancient in Great Britain. To John and Sarah (Owen) Biddle there were born five chil- dren, of whom was Clement, of whom further.
(IV) CLEMENT BIDDLE, second son of John and Sarah (Owen) Biddle, was born at the Biddle homestead, Market Street, between Second and Third streets, Philadelphia, May 10, 1740. In association with his father and brother, Owen, he engaged in the shipping and importing business until the outbreak of the Revolu- tion. During that war nearly his whole time was given to the service of his coun- try. He was one of the signers of the Non-Importation Agreement of 1765. He was one of the organizers of the "Quaker Light Infantry," originally formed to defend the Conestoga Indians from the Paxton boys, 1763-64, and served in the Jersey campaign of 1776-77. He was appointed, July 8, 1776, deputy quarter- master-general of the Flying Camp, composed of the militia companies of Penn- sylvania and New Jersey, with rank of colonel. On October 15, 1776, General Greene, then at Amboy, appointed Colonel Biddle on his staff as aide-de-camp, and during November, 1776, he was stationed at Fort Lee on the Hudson, but returned to the Delaware in time to participate in the battle of Trenton, when he was deputed by Washington to receive the swords of the Hessian officers who had surrendered. He participated in the battles of Princeton, Germantown, Brandywine and Mon- mouth, and shared the sufferings of the camp at Valley Forge, where he was accompanied by his wife. He was appointed by President Washington United States Marshal of Pennsylvania, and was quartermaster-general of Pennsylvania Militia for many years, officiating as such during the Whisky Insurrection of 1794. He was appointed prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, September 3, 1788, and served until made judge of the Common Pleas Court, in 1791. He died in Philadelphia July 14, 1814. He married (first), June 6, 1764, Mary Richardson, daughter of Francis Richardson, who died in 1773. Their only child, Francis, died in infancy. He married (second), August 18, 1774, Rebekah Cornell, only daughter of Gideon Cornell, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of Rhode Island at the time of his death, 1765. Clement and Rebekah (Cornell) Biddle were the parents of thirteen children, of whom was Thomas, of whom further.
(V) THOMAS BIDDLE, second and the oldest surviving son of Clement and Rebekah (Cornell) Biddle, was born in Philadelphia, May 20, 1776. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1788 and graduated in the class of 1791. He held the degree of Master of Arts. He was a broker and banker in Philadelphia, and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania from 1837 to the time of his death, June 3, 1857. He was an active member of the American Philosophical Society. He married, February 12, 1806, Christine Williams, daughter of Gen- eral Jonathan Williams, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1752, and was
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a nephew of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. In his youth he made several commercial voyages to the West Indies and Europe. In 1773, he went to Europe with impor- tant messages and communications. In 1777, as commercial agent of the United States Government, he went to France, and remained there until 1785, returning to the United States with Franklin. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia for several years. On February 16, 1801, he was appointed major of artillery ; on December 4, 1801, inspector of fortifications and superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point; on July 8, 1802, lieutenant- colonel of engineers; on February 23, 1808, colonel; on July 31, 1812, general of New York Militia. In 1814, he was elected to Congress from Philadelphia. He was vice-president of the American Philosophical Society. He was the author of "Memoir on the Use of the Thermometer in Navigation," "Elements of Fortifica- tion," "Kosciusko," and "Movements for Horse Artillery." Of the five children of Thomas and Christine (Williams) Biddle was Thomas Alexander, of whom further.
(VI) THOMAS ALEXANDER BIDDLE, second son of Thomas Biddle, A. M., and Christine (Williams) Biddle, was born in Philadelphia, August 22, 1814. From the fine family background that was his he inherited many desirable quali- ties of mind and manner, to which he added personal attainments of culture and character. Among his outstanding endowments was a pronounced business acu- men which was manifested in the development of his financial undertaking as a broker and in the formation of the banking firm of Thomas A. Biddle & Com- pany. The soundness of his business policies and the excellent judgment exercised by him in the management entered into the foundation of the house which bears his name, and which still is in existence as a monument to his wisdom, foresight and sagacity.
Although Thomas A. Biddle & Company, under this style, was established by Thomas Alexander Biddle, the house is the successor of several firms, the earliest record of a partnership being that of John Biddle & Company, dated 1764, while there are a number of private account books of this John Biddle running back to 1735. It is believed that this banking business was known as Clement Biddle & Com- pany from 1764 to 1814. Books for two or three years cover operations of Biddle and Wharton. The style became Thomas Biddle & Company in 1818 and so continued until 1867, and it was in the latter year that Thomas Alexander Biddle brought into existence the firm of Thomas A. Biddle & Company, this being the present title of the business. During the operating period of the business, father and son were partners all the way down, as were other members of the Biddle family, and occasionally persons outside the family were received as partners. The first trans- action in the book dated 1764 is one in gold, and while at that period there were no such things as stocks and bonds and stockbrokers in this country, the deals were made as merchants, and these developed into a brokerage business. Following the Revolution, the firm handled all the various kinds of United States Government and State bonds, currencies, etc. The partners of the present firm believe that, since one firm has succeeded another, and all have been within the same family, the original firm was established in 1764 and thus Thomas A. Biddle & Company is, to all intents and purposes, the oldest private banking house in the United States.
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Thomas Alexander Biddle's salient characteristics, intellectuality, geniality, and benevolent disposition, are depicted in his portrait, which shows him a man of fine appearance as he was known to his numerous friends and business associates. His is a likeness that ought never to be absent from any record of his notable contri- butions to the financial structure of Philadelphia and of his great value to the citi- zen body of this his native city.
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