(1868) Cadwalader first married Mary Binney (1805–1831), daughter of
Horace Binney, an
Anti-Jacksonian United States Representative known for his public speeches; he founded the
Hasty Pudding Club at
Harvard. Together, Mary and John had two daughters, including: • Mary Binney Cadwalader (1829–1861), who married William Henry Rawle. Following his first wife's death from complications of childbirth, he married Henrietta Maria Bancker (1806–1889) with whom he had six children, including: • Charles Evert Cadwalader (1839–1907), who fought in the
U.S. Civil War and later became a physician. • Anne Cadwalader (1842–1927), who married Rev. Henry James Rowland, eldest son of William Rowland, in 1878.
Descendants Through his eldest daughter Mary, Cadwalader was the grandfather of
Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1935), who was married on March 24, 1870, to
Frederic Rhinelander Jones (the brother of
Edith Wharton); their daughter in turn was landscape architect
Beatrix Cadwalader Jones Farrand (1872–1959). Cadwalader's grandson, John Cadwalader III (1874–1934), became trustee of the estate of his aunt Sophia Georgiana (née Fisher) Coxe (1841–1926) which funded the
MMI Preparatory School. ==References==