Ancestry of
Joseph Wharton

Founder of the Wharton School of Business

Joseph Wharton

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Wharton 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Fisher   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1826 
  • Birth Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1909 
  • Death Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Notes: 

  • Founder of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania

    Co-Founder of Bethlehem Steel and Swarthmore College

• Marriages for Joseph Wharton

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  • Spouse:
  • Anna Corbit Lovering
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1854

• Sources for Joseph Wharton

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/24/2015).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ³ Jones, Charles Henry, Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620 to 1886, Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott (1886), 74.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 462, 619.
  • ⁵ Wharton, Anne H., Genealogy of the Wharton Family of Philadelphia, 1664 to 1880, Philadelphia: Collins, Printer (1880), 29.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Joseph Wharton", (accessed 09/24/2015).