Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....Biddle, Charlotte Battin 1842 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  MRS. CHARLOTTE BIDDLE, a most estimable and highly respected citizen of Fox
  township, has been a life-long resident of Sullivan county, and is descended
  from one of the pioneer families who, amid the privations and want which the
  early settlers alone have felt and can understand, helped to lay the foundation
  of those sterling principles which have made Sullivan county what it is to-day.
  Her grandfather, Marshall Battin, came from Columbia county, Pennsylvania, at an
  early day and settled upon a tract of wild, unbroken land in this county. He
  married Mary Hoagland, a native of this county, and together they labored to
  advance the improvement of their small domain. The country at that time abounded
  with game of all kinds, and being a good marksman Mr. Battin with his gun often
  supplied their table with venison or other, dainties to help out their homely
  fare. He cleared off a great part of his land and engaged in general farming and
  stock-raising.He had seven sons and one daughter, as follows: John, the father
  of our subject; Joseph; Henry; Hannah, wife of George Kilmer; and Benjamin, -
  all deceased; and Joshua, Samuel and Reuben, - farmers of Fox township. The
  grandfather passed to his reward December 4, 1875, at the advanced age of
  ninety-one years, and was joined on December 2, five years later, by his beloved
  wife, who was then in her ninety-first year.
  
      John Battin, the father of Mrs. Biddle, was born March 15, 1810, in Fox
  township, this county, and spent his entire life in this township, dying March
  26, 1890, in the ripeness of age and the consciousness of a well-spent life. He
  was united in wedlock to Emily Williams, a daughter of Thomas Williams, of New
  England, and to them were born the following children: Cornelius, born March 30,
  1832, and residing in Kansas; Jesruth, born January 21, 1834, in business at
  Laporte; Thomas, born March 30, 1836, a farmer of Washington; Charlotte, born
  July 24, 1842, the subject of this memoir; and Allen, born September 26, 1848,
  and died October 13, 1849.The father worked at blacksmithing and farming, and
  was known as a man whose character was above reproach. He made no public
  profession of religion but chose rather to let his religious convictions show
  through his daily life. In his politics he was a Democrat, and he served as
  county commissioner and justice of the peace for a number of years.
  
      Charlotte Battin was married October 12, 1870, to George Biddle, a resident
  of Hill's Grove. He was a son of Richard and Esther (Bird) Biddle, and was born
  in Forks township, where he resided until he had reached adult years, when he
  went with his parents to Hill's Grove, this county, where he afterward made his
  home. His father had extensive interests in farming, lumbering and also
  conducted a hotel, in all of which the son was associated. He continued in these
  lines of business until his death, August 3, 1885. They were the parents of four
  children: Richard, born September 10, 1872, living at home; Cora, born September
  12, 1876, wife of James Stull, a lumber worker of Glen Union, Clinton county,
  Pennsylvania; Emma, born December 21, 1877, at home; and Esther, born May 21,
  1881, is a student of the graded school at Hill's Grove. 
  
      In politics Mr. Biddle was a Republican but not a politician.
  
      After his death Mrs. Biddle remained at Hill's Grove some three years and
  then returned to the home of her childhood. This farm consists of one hundred
  and fifty acres and is owned by her. One hundred acres are under cultivation and
  she realizes a neat income from farming and stock-raising.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  
  Extracted from: 
              
               History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                   by Thomas J. Ingham
              
       Compendium of Biography
              
                  The Lewis Publishing Company
            Chicago: 1899
  
  
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