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Nicholas Biddle, about 1834
Portrait by Henry Inman
(Born: January 8, 1786 - Died: February 27, 1844)
American financier. At the age of 17, he was the first editor of the journals of Lewis and Clark, who surveyed the western territories of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. Biddle married Jane Margaret Craig on October 3, 1811, and they had six children. His mansion, Andalusia, on the Delaware River, was built in 1794 by his father-in-law, John Craig.
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- E. A. Poe to N. Biddle - January 6, 1841 (OS#106a)
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- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Nicholas Biddle,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:79-80
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
- Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 1:257-258.
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