Henry Biddle

Henry Biddle
Born	1862 Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Died	1928 Lakeview, Oregon
Occupation	Engineer, geologist, naturalist, botanist
Known for	Preservation of Beacon Rock
Spouse(s)	Helene Rudolf (1887)
Children	Rebecca Baird Biddle (1888-?) and Spencer Biddle (1890-)
Parent(s)	Maj. Henry J. Biddle (1817-1862) and Mary Deborah Baird Biddle (?-1900)

Born in Philadelphia in 1862, a member of a prominent eastern family, Biddle at an early age decided to carve his career in the West. He was a mining engineer, geologist and naturalist with degrees from Yale and the Royal Academy in Freiburg, Germany.

Born into the prominent Philadelphia Biddle family. Educated at Sheffield School, Yale, and Royal Academy in Freiburg, Germany. Biddle was trained as a mining engineer and geologist, he was also a natulaiist and a botanist.

After working briefly for the Smithsonian Institution, Biddle settled in the pacific northwest. First in Lakeview, then Portland, and finally establishing a 360-acre estate along the Columbia River about seven miles east of Vancouver.

In 1915 he bought the Columbia Gorge landmark Beacon Rock and developed a trail to its peak (completed in 1918); his children Spencer and Rebecca donated it to Washington as a state park.

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