Background
Biddle, John Hunter was born on July 29, 1905 in Everett, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Franklin and Anna Patton (Hunter) Biddle.
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Biddle, John Hunter was born on July 29, 1905 in Everett, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Franklin and Anna Patton (Hunter) Biddle.
Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College, 1927. Student Juniata College, 1961-1962.
Editor The Daily News, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1927-1936, public, 1936-1973. President Gazette Public Company, also Inquirer Printing Company, Bedford, Pennsylvania, 1936-1973. Vice president Progressive Public Company, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, 1944-1973.
President Huntingdon Broadcasters, Incorporated.
(Pennsylvania), 1947. President WBFD, 1950-1973, WAKM, Bedford, 1967-1973.
Vice president Niles Public Company (O.), 1961-1967, vice president Apache Public Company, Glendale, Arizona, 1963-1965. President Grange Trust Company, Huntingdon, 1955-1958.
President, chief Executive officer successor bank Penn Central National Bank, 1962-1968, Chairman of the Board, 1969-1977.
Chairman of the Board First National Bank, Bedford, 1965-1977, also director Station WDAD, Indiana, Pennsylvania Past member sponsoring committee Pennsylvania Prison Society. Secretary Huntingdon County Tuberculosis Society, 1933-1962.
President Pennsylvania Tuberculosis and Health Society, 1950-1954.
Councillor International Union Against Tuberculosis, Paris, 1953, Madrid, 1954, Moscow, 1971.
Member Huntingdon Municipal Council, 1944-1960. Member Pennsylvania Republican Committee, 1950-1968. Board of directors National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, president, 1971-1972.
Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publications Association (president 1947), National Newspaper Association (treasurer 1959-1966, president 1967-1968).
Mason.; Clubs: National Press (Washington).
Married Helen Isabella Read, August 23, 1933. Children: Townley (Mistress Robert Harold Neill), Joseph F. II, John Read, Andrew Christopher Reeves, Anne Patton Hunter.