Anthony Joseph Drexel - Marriage and Children

Marriage and Children

Drexel married Ellen B. Rozet (1832–1891) and they had the following children:

  • Emilie Taylor Drexel (1851–1883), who married Edward Biddle III (born 1851)
  • Frances Katherine Drexel (1852–1892), who married James William Paul, Jr.
  • Marie Rozet Drexel (1854–1855)
  • Mae E. Drexel (1857–1886), who married Charles T. Stewart
  • Sarah Rozet "Sallie" Drexel (1860–1929), who married John R. Fell, Sr., and later married Alexander van Rensselaer
  • Francis Anthony Drexel (1861–1869)
  • John Rozet Drexel (1863–1935), who married Alice Gordon Troth (1865–1947)
  • Anthony Joseph Drexel II (1865–1934), who married Margarita Armstrong
  • George William Childs Drexel (1868–1944), who married Mary Stretch Irick (1868–1948).

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