In the early 19th century, the University’s founder’s father, Francis Martin Drexel, left his native Austria to become a famous portrait painter in America. ... they had three children: Mary Johanna ...

Tomorrow, at a celebration in Rome, Mary Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) will become the second American-born Catholic saint. The first, Elizabeth Ann Seton, canonized in 1975, was born in New York ...

2. It was Francis’s son, Anthony J. Drexel, who partnered with New York City bankers, including Pierpont Morgan, to found Drexel, Morgan and Company in 1871, with headquarters in the biggest ...

There is no Drexel University without its founder, Anthony J. Drexel.And there is no Anthony J. Drexel without his father, Francis Martin Drexel, who escaped Napoleonic forces and spent eight years ...