page_title: John Biddle (Michigan politician)
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: John Biddle (Michigan politician) / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs. John Biddle (Eliza Falconer Bradish) Artist:Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783–1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Date:1818 Medium:Oil on canvas Dimensions:30 x 24 7/8 in. (76.2 x 63.2 cm) Classification:Paintings Credit Line:Gift of General John Biddle, 1924
context_page_description: John Biddle was an American military officer, politician, and businessman. He served as a delegate to the United States Congress from the Michigan Territory, as the speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, and as mayor of Detroit.
context_section_description: On January 21, 1819, he married Eliza Falconer Bradish (1795–1865), the daughter of James Bradish (1772–1799) and Margaretta Thompson (1770–1846) of New York.  The couple had four children that lived to adulthood:
  Margaretta Falconer Biddle (1825–1913), who married Andrew Porter (1820–1872), a Civil War general
  William Shepard Biddle (1830–1901), who married Susan Dayton Ogden (1831–1878), daughter of Elias B. D. Ogden, a  New Jersey Supreme Court Justice
  Major James Biddle (1833–1905)
  Edward John Biddle (1836–1892)
  In 1859, Biddle went to White Sulphur Springs in what is now West Virginia, for the summer, and died there. He is interred in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan.
caption: Portrait of Biddle's wife, Eliza Falconer Bradish, by Thomas Sully, 1818
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