Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
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Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton | |
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| Born | December 15, 1845 Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania |
| Died | July 29, 1928 (aged 82) |
| Occupation | writer and historian |
| Nationality | American |
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American writer and historian.[1][2][3][4]
Wharton was born in Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1845. The daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs, she was also a direct descendant of Robert Wharton, the longest serving mayor of Philadelphia.[5]
Educated at a private school in Philadelphia, she received a Litt. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.[6]
Career
She devoted herself primarily to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of books and magazine articles in this field,[7][8] and was chosen historian of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. She also helped to found the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America.[9] In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago.[6]
She was also involved in genealogy and published The Genealogy of the Wharton Family in 1880.[6] In 1915, the J.E. Lippincott Company published her book, English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans."[10]
A lifetime member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, she also served as vice president of the Browning Society of Philadelphia and was a member of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society.[11]
Illness, death and interment
During the summer of 1928, Wharton fell ill. She died three weeks later, at the age of eighty-three, at her home at 2220 Locust Street in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 29, 1928.[12] Her funeral was held at Philadelphia's historic Christ Church.[13] She was interred at The Woodlands Cemetery in the Wharton family's plot.[14]
