Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Biddle, Homer S. November 10, 1882 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  HOMER S. BIDDLE, district manager of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
at Altoona, was born at Loysburg, Bedford County, Pa., November 10, 1882, that 
town being the birthplace of his father, Jacob S. Biddle.  The father spent most 
of his life at Loysburg, where he was a farmer and prominent in the affairs of 
the county, which he represented in the State Legislature.  He is deceased, and 
his wife, who was Emma (Shoenfelt) Biddle, of Bedford County, died in 1928.  
They were the parents of six other children: Annie, Hattie, Emory, John, Roy, 
and Warren.  Homer S. Biddle attended the public schools of Loysburg and Betts 
Academy, Stamford, Connecticut, after which he studied at Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Connecticut, from which he graduated in 1906.  For two years 
thereafter, he engaged in business for himself as a public accountant and 
auditor and then became associated with the Philip-Carey Company, roofing and 
insulating concern, as traveling salesman in this section of the state.  In 
1927, Mr. Biddle formed a connection with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, of Philadelphia, for which he became district manager at Altoona in 
1927.  This office of the company serves the counties of Blair, Bedford, 
Huntingdon, Mifflin, Fulton, and parts of Cambria and Centre.  Mr. Biddle is a 
member of the Chamber of Commerce and served on the board of directors of that 
body.  He was united in marriage to Mary Hamilton, of Altoona, where they 
maintain their residence.

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