Margaret Thompson Biddle (1897-1956)

Mrs Margaret (Thompson) Schulze, Biddle

She was heiress to an $85-million fortune. She hosted the Eisenhowers in France and as a famous jewel collector bequeathed more than 1,500 vermeil pieces to the White House upon her death. She had two children by her first marriage.

Parents

William Boyce Thompson

of Alder Manor, Yonkers, New York; Engineer & Founder of Newmont Mining

1869-1930

Gertrude (Hickman) Thompson

Mrs Gertrude (Hickman) Thompson

1877-1950

Spouses

Theodore Schulze

Founder & President of Theodore Schulze & Co., Private Bankers, New York

1889-1936

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.

Major-General in the U.S. Army & U.S. Ambassador to Spain etc.

1897-1961