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Wharton, Francis 1820-1889

Jurist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 7, 1820; graduated at Yale University in 1839; admitted to the bar and began practice in Philadelphia in 1843; was Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in 1856-63; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and became rector of St. Paul's Church, Brookline, Mass., in 1863; Professor of Canon Law, Polity, and Apologetics in the Cambridge Episcopal Seminary in 1866; and became editor of the Revolutionary diplomatic correspondence of the United States by an act of Congress, in 1888. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 21, 1889.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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