ANTHONY

See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH

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• ANTHONY JOSEPH DREXEL (1826–1893)

DREXEL (1826–1893)  , American banker, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of September 1826 . He was the son of Francis M . Drexel (1792–1863), a native of Austrian Tirol, who emigrated to America in 1817, and, after some years spent as a portrait-painter, became a banker and the founder of the house of Drexel & Company . Anthony, who entered his father's counting-house in 1839, eventually, with his brothers Francis and Joseph, succeeded to the control of the business, and organized the banking houses of Drexel, Morgan & Company, New York, of which his brother Joseph W . (1833–1888) was long the resident head, and of Drexel, Harjes & Company, Paris . In 1864 he joined his friend George W . Childs in the purchase of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and with him in 1892 founded the Printers' Home for union men at Colorado Springs . In 1891 he founded, and endowed with $2,000,000, the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in Philadelphia, the buildings for which he constructed at a cost of $750,000 . This institution provides technical instruction for both night and day classes and public lecture courses, and has a good museum and a library of 35,000 volumes . Drexel died at Carlsbad, Germany, on the 3oth of June 1893 .