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87, and was defeated for a third term in 1887. He was defeated for election as U.S. senator in 1889 on the eighth ballot, but was elected, June 13, 1894, by the unanimous A'ote of the joint legis- lature and re-elected. June 13, 1900, his second term expiring, March 3, 1907. He was a trustee of Peabody Museum of Natural History, of Yale university, and of the Peabody Education Fund. He declined a fellowship from Yale in 1888; served as president of the Newport hospital, and as a member of the commission to build the Rhode Island State house in Providence com- pleted in 1904.

WHARTON, Anne HolHngsworth, author, was born at Southampton Furnace, Pa., Dec. 15, 1845; daughter of Charles and Mary McLanahan (Boggs) Wharton; granddaughter of Charles and Anne Maria (Hollingsworth) Wharton and of John (M.D.) and Isabella (Allison) Boggs, and sixth in descent from Thomas Wharton (who immigrated to Pennsylvania some time prior to 1688 from Westmoreland, England, and was mai-- ried at the Bank Meeting House to Rachel Thomas of Monmouthshire, Wales); fifth in descent from Joseph Wharton (1707-1776), popularly known as " Duke Wharton " who was a wealthy Phila- delphia merchant and proprietor of the home- stead "Walnut Grove," when the Meschianza was held by the British in May, 1778; and on the maternal side fifth in descent from Ensign An- drew Boggs, who served in the French and Indian war, and fourth in descent from Major John Boggs, of the Cumberland county associa- ters in 1777. Anne H. Wharton attended Mrs. G. C. Gary's private school in Philadelphia, and at an early age began literary production, mak- ing a specialty of Colonial and Revolutionary subjects, and contributing numerous essays and stories to the leading magazines and journals of the day. She was a founder of the Pennsylvania and of the National Societies of the Colonial Dames of America and historian of both of the organizations; judge of the American Colonial exhibit at the World's Columbian exposition of 1893; vice-president of the Browning society of Philadelphia, and of the Pennsylvania Audubon society: honorary member of the Historical So- ciety of Pennsylvania, a member of the New Century club of Philadelphia, and of the Public Education association of Pliiladelphia. She is the author of: St. Bartholomew's Eve (1866); Virgilia (1869); The JMiarton Family (1880); Tlirough Colonial Doorways (1893); Colonial Days and Dames (1894); A Last Century Maid (1895); Life of Martha Washington in'' ^Vomeu. of Colonial and Revolutionary Times " (1897); Heirlooms in Miniatures (1897); Salons, Colonial and Republican (1900); and Social Life in the Early Republic (1902).

WHARTON, Charles Henry, educator, was

born at ■' Notley Hill,"" St. Mary"s county, Md., June 5, 1748. He attended the Jesuits' college, St. Omer's, England, 1760-72; was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in September, 1772, and in 1783, when he was chaplain to the Roman Catholics in Worcester, England, he re- turned to America, and in May, 1874, adopted the views of the Established Church of England, and was rector of Immanuel church. New Castle, 1784-98. He was a delegate to the general con- vention that drafted an ecclesiastical constitution for the Protestant Episcopal cliurch in the United States of America in 1785, and a member of the committee to draft the constitution and of the committee to make the Book of Common Prayer conform to the government of the new republic. In 1798 he was made rector of St. Mary's church, Burlington, N.J., and in 1801 elected president of Columbia college, N.Y., which ofiice he held during the commencement of that year, after which he resigned and i-esumed the rectorship of St. Mary's, Burlington. He was president of the standing committee of the diocese and a deputy to the general convention continuously during his lifetime; was a member of the American Philosophical society, 1786-1833, and at the time of his death was the senior presbyter of the Prot- estant Episcopal church in the United States. He was co-editor with the Rev. Dr. Abercrombie o( the Quarterly Theological Magazine and Reli- gious Repository, 1813-14, and is the author of a poetical epistle to Gen, George Washington, pub- lished for the benefit of American prisoners in England (1779); Letter to the Roman Catholics of Worcester (1784); Reply to Bishop Carroll's Ad- dress to the Roman Catholics of the United States (1785); Lnquiry into the Proofs of the Divinity of Christ (1796); Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy between the Protestant and. Roman Churches (1817). Bishop George W. Doane published "Remains and Memoir of the Rev. Charles H. Wharton " (2 vols., 1834). He died in Burlington, N.J., July 22, 1833.

WHARTON, Edith, author, was born in New York city, Jan. 24, 1862; daughter of George Frederic and Lucretia Stevens (Rliinelander) Jones; andgreat-granddaughter of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens of the Revolutionary Army. She was educated at home, and was married in 1885, to Edward, son of William and Nancy Craig (Spring) Wharton of Boston, Mass. Slie is the author of: Tlie Greater Liclination (1889); The Decoration of Houses (1898); The Touchstone (1900); Cru- cial Instances (1901); Hie Valley of Decision (1902); Sanctuary (1904) and extensive contribu- tions to magazines.

WHARTON, Francis, educator and statesman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 7, 1820: son