BIO: Edward W. Biddle, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Bookwalter Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ ______________________________________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc. Illustrated. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm ______________________________________________________________________ PART II. HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER XXXVIII. BOROUGH OF CARLISLE. 369 BOROUGH OF CARLISLE. EDWARD W. BIDDLE, Carlisle, was born in Carlisle May 3, 1852, son of Edward M. and Julia A. (Watts) Biddle, natives, the former of Philadelphia, who, in 1827, came with his mother to Carlisle, and the latter a native of Carlisle, a daughter of David and Julia (Miller) Watts, she a daughter of Gen. Henry Miller, of Revolutionary war fame and from Cumberland County. The father of our subject has been secretary and treasurer of the Cumberland Valley Railroad since 1840. Our subject attended the public schools until twelve years of age, when he entered the preparatory department of Dickinson College, and two years later the college proper, from which he was graduated at the age of eighteen years, being a member of the class of 1870. He was then engaged in the surveying corps on the Dillsburg & Mechanicsburg Railroad for six months, when he began the study of law in the office of William M. Penrose, Esq., was admitted to the bar in 1873, and has since been occupied in the practice of law. He was attorney for the commissioners of Cumberland County during the years 1879-81. Mr. Biddle was married February 2, 1882, to Miss Gertrude D. Bosler, of Carlisle, a daughter of J. Herman and Mary J. (Kirk) Bosler, former of Cumberland County and latter of Mifflintown, Juniata Co., Penn. To Mr. and Mrs. Biddle two sons were born: Herman Bosler, born April 14, 1883, and Edward Macfunn, born May 29, 1886. Mrs. Biddle is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church.