Mrs. Biddle played golf, rode horses for pleasure and in competitions, was very well educated and loved to travel. Her parents were both brought up to love their country, to be charitable towards others and to serve her community. In her early married life she dealt well with the complications arising from raising children amid military life. Her parents were founding members of the First Unitarian Church of Portland. Some of the first home meetings were in her parent's home. They were members of the devoted group of Unitarian's that discovered a pastor was then living in California and sent for him. They both were well known members of the church back in Duxbury, near Boston, Massachusetts, before the Thomas Frazar family came west to, Portland, Oregon. The church's cemetery is located near where Thomas A. Frazar's parents had lived and where several family members are buried. [The University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon has
a manuscript written by Thomas for his children and their children. It gives a look into early United
States family history and some further dept into his history.
Daughter - Margaret Alden [Biddle] Parker and her husband, Jamieson Kirkwood Parker, were long time members the Unitarian Church of Portland. Jamieson, was a national known Architect and was directly involved with the design and the building of their new church building. At death both their bodies were cremated and their remains were dealt with privately as is common within the Unitarian Church body.
Mother - Margaret Alden [Burrell] Biddle the daughter of Martin Strong Burrell and his wife Rosetta [Frazar].
Father - William Shepard Biddle, II and his parent's were William Shepard Biddle, Sr. and Susan Dayton [Ogen] Biddle. They can be seen at FindAGrave.com. Find A Grave Memorial# 62939135. They were great Americans full of pride in the Country's development and willing to further this work in the years to come.
Mother - Rosetta [Frazar] Burrell was the daughter of Thomas Alden Frazar an 'Early Oregonian' and Portland pioneer. He and his wife were founding members of First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon. It still exists in Portland today. She like her father before her raised her children to believe in the teaching of the church. These teachings were pasted down through several generations. Back in Massachusetts the parents of Thomas Frazar are buried in a Unitarian church cemetery. The Voorhies family was brought up in the same faith due in large part to their matriarch, Helen Strong [Burrell] Voorhies who married Col. Gorden Voorhies. Their family became very successful and active in the health of their community, state and nation.
Mrs. Biddle played golf, rode horses for pleasure and in competitions, was very well educated and loved to travel. Her parents were both brought up to love their country, to be charitable towards others and to serve her community. In her early married life she dealt well with the complications arising from raising children amid military life. Her parents were founding members of the First Unitarian Church of Portland. Some of the first home meetings were in her parent's home. They were members of the devoted group of Unitarian's that discovered a pastor was then living in California and sent for him. They both were well known members of the church back in Duxbury, near Boston, Massachusetts, before the Thomas Frazar family came west to, Portland, Oregon. The church's cemetery is located near where Thomas A. Frazar's parents had lived and where several family members are buried. [The University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon has
a manuscript written by Thomas for his children and their children. It gives a look into early United
States family history and some further dept into his history.
Daughter - Margaret Alden [Biddle] Parker and her husband, Jamieson Kirkwood Parker, were long time members the Unitarian Church of Portland. Jamieson, was a national known Architect and was directly involved with the design and the building of their new church building. At death both their bodies were cremated and their remains were dealt with privately as is common within the Unitarian Church body.
Mother - Margaret Alden [Burrell] Biddle the daughter of Martin Strong Burrell and his wife Rosetta [Frazar].
Father - William Shepard Biddle, II and his parent's were William Shepard Biddle, Sr. and Susan Dayton [Ogen] Biddle. They can be seen at FindAGrave.com. Find A Grave Memorial# 62939135. They were great Americans full of pride in the Country's development and willing to further this work in the years to come.
Mother - Rosetta [Frazar] Burrell was the daughter of Thomas Alden Frazar an 'Early Oregonian' and Portland pioneer. He and his wife were founding members of First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon. It still exists in Portland today. She like her father before her raised her children to believe in the teaching of the church. These teachings were pasted down through several generations. Back in Massachusetts the parents of Thomas Frazar are buried in a Unitarian church cemetery. The Voorhies family was brought up in the same faith due in large part to their matriarch, Helen Strong [Burrell] Voorhies who married Col. Gorden Voorhies. Their family became very successful and active in the health of their community, state and nation.
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