Joseph Wharton (1826 - 1909)

Born 3 Mar 1826 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 11 Jan 1909 at age 82 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Joseph Wharton, b. March 3, 1826; m. June 15, 1854, at Oakhill, to Anna Corbit Lovering, dau. of Joseph S. Lovering by his wife Ann Corbit. She was b. Dec. 19, 1830.

Children:

• Joanna, b. Dec. 16, 1858.
• Mary Lovering, b. Sept. 27, 1862.
• Anna, b. July 15, 1868. ^[1]

Wharton State Forest[1]

Wharton State Forest is the largest state forest in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[1] It is the largest single tract of land in the state park system of New Jersey, encompassing approximately 122,880 acres (497.3 km2) of the Pinelands northeast of Hammonton. Its protected acreage is divided between Burlington, Camden, and Atlantic counties. The entire forest is located within the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion as well as the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve. The forest is located in the forested watershed of the Mullica River, which drains the central Pinelands region into the Great Bay. The forest is under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.

The forest is named for Joseph Wharton, who purchased most of the land that now lies within the forest in the 19th century. Wharton wanted to tap the groundwater under the Pine Barrens to provide a source of clean drinking water for Philadelphia; however, the New Jersey Legislature quashed the plan by passing a law that banned the export of water from the state. The state bought the vast tract from Wharton's heirs in the 1950s.

Obituary

Joseph Wharton Dead.

Prominent Ironmaker Expires at Home in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11. — Joseph Wharton, one of the prominent residents of this city and one of the largest individual iron manufacturers in the United States, died at his home in the suburbs to-day, aged 83 years. He was stricken with paralysis last June.

Joseph Wharton was born in Philadaiphia on March 3, 1826. He received his education working on a farm and studying at the same time. Mr. Wharton established and was one of the principal owners of the Bethlehem Iron Company, later the Bethlehem Steel Company. He was also the owner of pig iron furnaces, ore beds, coal lands, and coke works. In 1873 he purchased the deposits of nickel ore in Lancaster County. Penn., and established a nickel refining works at Camden, N. S., thus establishing for the first time in America, the production of nickel.

Mr. Wharton gave large sums of money for educational advancement. He was one of the founders of Swarthmore College, and was President of its Board of Directors for many years. With Samuel Willets of this city he established its scientific laboratory, while he alone established the Chair of History and Political Economy in the same institution.

Another of Mr. Wharton’s large benefactions toward educational advancement was the founding of the Wharton School of Finance and Political Economy in the University of Pennsylvania. Toward the establishment of this chair be gave $500,000.

Mr. Wharton was the President of the American Iron and Steel Association. He contributed articles on finance, industry, and science to various magazines and periodicals.

Published in the New York Times, January 12, 1909 ^[2]

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wharton

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharton_State_Forest

1. ↑ By. Anne H. Wharton:; Genealogy of the Wharton Family of Philadelphia, 1664 to 1880:;Historical Society of Pennsylvania:; Philadelphia:; 1880;: page 40
2. ↑ http://www.njpinebarrens.com/joseph-wharton-obituary/

"Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JKQG-MYV : 9 December 2014), Joseph Wharton, 11 Jan 1909; citing cn 1070, Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; FHL microfilm 1,405,059.

Source S-2090048375

Repository: #R-2091054883

Title: 1900 United States Federal Census

Author: Ancestry.com

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18

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