User:Tedickey/Owen Biddle

Owen Biddle (1737–March 10, 1799), scientist, early member of the American Philosophical Society, Lewes, Delaware, observer of 1769 Transit of Venus, 4 term Governor of Pennsylania - for 4 days (1776).

As a merchant, he briefly employed Thomas Paine as a clerk.

References

• Biddle, Charles; Biddle, James S. (1883), Autobiography of Charles Biddle, E. Claxton and Co., p. 420
• Paine, Thomas; Carlile, Richard (1819), The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, London: Richard Carlile
• Risch, Erna (1981), Supplying Washington's Army, Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, retrieved 2008-07-06
• Scharf, John Thomas; Westcott, Thompson (1884), History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884: 1609-1884, L. H. Everts & Co., p. 1949
• Simpson, Henry (1859), The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, Philadelphia: William Brotherhead, p. 81, 85

External links

• Governor of Pennsylvania
• History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
• ISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS CALLED BY SOME THE FREE QUAKERS, IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
  • II: REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
  • APPENDIX NO. 12: LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE FREE QUAKER SOCIETY WHO ARE KNOWN OR BELIVED TO BE DECEASED.
• FOR THE SECURITY AND PROTECTION OF THE COMMUNITY:” THE FRONTIER