Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Francis WHARTON
WHARTON, Francis, educator and statesman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 7, 1820; son [p.364] of Thomas Isaac and Arabella (Griffith) Wharton; grandson of Isaac and Margaret (Rawle) Wharton and of John and Mary (Corré) Griffith, and great-grandson of Joseph and Hannah (Carpenter) Wharton . He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1856; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and established himself in the practice of law in Philadelphia. He was assistant attorney-general in 1845, and in 1856 he retired from his law practice and was appointed professor of English history and literature, logic and rhetoric at Kenyon college, Ohio, where he remained till 1863, when he was ordained to the Protestant Episcopal ministry and became rector of St. Paul's church, Brookline, Mass. He was professor of ecclesiastical polity, homiletics, and pastoral care at the Episcopal Theological school; of international law at Boston university; lecturer on criminal law at Columbian university, Washington D.C., 1885-86, and professor of criminal law, 1886-88. He was appointed solicitor for the department of state and examiner of international claims in 1885, and in 1888, under resolution of congress, he was made editor of the Revolutionary diplomatic correspondence of the United States. He was twice married: first Nov. 4, 1852, to Sidney, daughter of Comegys and Sarah (Rodman) Paul of Philadelphia, and secondly, Dec. 27, 1860, to Helen Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis R. and Mary (Hazelhurst) Ashhurst of Philadelphia. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Kenyon college in 1865 and by the University of Edinburgh in 1883, and that of D.D. by Kenyon college in 1866. He was associated with Charles E. Lex in editing the Episcopal Recorder of Philadelphia, and is the author of A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States (1846); The State Trials of the United States, during the Administrations of Washington and Adams (1849); Precedents of Indictments and Pleas adapted to Use, both of the Courts of the United States, and those of the Several States (1849); A Treatise on the Law of Homicide in the United States (1855); A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence with Dr. Moreton Stillé (1855); Treatise on Theism and Modern Skeptical Theories (1859); The Silence of Seripture, a Series of Lectures (1867); A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws (1872); The Law of Agency and Agents (1876); Digest of International Law (1886). He died in Washington, D.C., Feb. 21, 1889.
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