On April 27, 1886, Drexel was married to Alice Gordon Troth (1865–1947) at
St. James' Episcopal Church in Philadelphia by the Rev. Dr. Morton. Together, they were the parents of four children: • Lillian Mae Drexel (1889–1894), who died young. who married Elizabeth Hough Thompson (1896–1943), a daughter of James Beaton Thompson, in 1918. They divorced in 1924, and he married Jane
Barbour, a daughter of John Robert Taliaferro Barbour and a descendant of President
Zachary Taylor, in 1925. • Alice Gordon Drexel (1892–1959), a debutante who eloped Captain William Barrett, of the
Army Air Service, a son of
Oregon State Senator William N. Barrett. They separated a year later. who never married and "passes most of his time traveling." When John died in 1935, he left most of his estate to John Jr. and Alice. The estate within the jurisdiction of Philadelphia courts was $1,285,292. Upon his wife's death in 1947, He also inherited her Paris property, New York property, Newport property, Philadelphia property and a large trust.
Descendants Through his son John Jr., he was a grandfather of
John Rozet Drexel III (1919–2007), who married Noreen Stonor, a daughter of
Ralph Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys (and his American wife Mildred Constance
Sherman) of
Stonor Park, David Anthony Drexel (1927–2003), who married Joan Gripenberg (daughter of
Georg Achates Gripenberg, the Finnish Minister to London, Sweden, and the
United Nations), and Jane Barbour Drexel (1929–2008), who married Harry Marshall Vale Jr., and John Porteous II, Through his daughter Alice, he was a grandfather of Edwin Gerald William Barrett (1920–1921), who died aged 10 months from
meningitis. ==References==