[Chat] Found a reference to the Biddle family ...

[Crystal]

Is this the family that Biddle Street is named after?

"The Biddles, a legendary family of bankers,
diplomats, lawyers, politicians and military men, were
one of Philadelphia's first families, there since
early in the 19th century, when Nicholas Biddle bought
property on the bank of the Delaware River, 13 miles
upstream from the city. Nicholas Biddle was the most
powerful banker of his time, director of the Second
Bank of the United States and a ceaseless combatant
with President Andrew Jackson for control of the
nation's currency. At the 123-acre family estate,
called Andalusia, his guests included John Quincy
Adams, Daniel Webster, the Marquis de Lafayette and
Joseph Bonaparte, the former king of Spain." 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040418/ts_latimes/howthedeathofjudysfathermadeamericamoresecretive&e=5

The rest of the article is rather interesting as well,
since it's about "the landmark 1953 ruling that
formally established the government's "state secrets"
privilege — a privilege that has enabled federal
agencies to conceal conduct, withhold documents and
block troublesome civil litigation, including suits by
whistle-blowers and possible victims of
discrimination." 

-- Crystal



	
		
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