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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“Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable purity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)