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Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889

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Personal name headingWharton, Francis, 1820-1889
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeGambier (Ohio) Cambridge (Mass.) Washington (D.C.)
Birth date1820-03-07
Death date1889-02-21
Place of birthPhiladelphia (Pa.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
Field of activityLaw History--Study and teaching Literature--Study and teaching
AffiliationKenyon College
Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.)
United States. Department of State
University and college faculty members
Profession or occupationLawyers
Episcopalians
Priests
Found inHis Medical jurisprudence, 1905.
Wharton, Francis. A treatise on medical jurisprudence, 1860: title page (by Francis Wharton (author of "A treatise on American criminal law," "Precedents of indictments," "American law of homicide," etc.))
Who was who in America, 1607-1896 (Wharton, Francis; lawyer, clergyman; born Philadelphia, March 7, 1820; grad. Yale, 1839; admitted to bar 1843; studied and wrote on criminal law; editor, Episcopal Reader, 1854, also lay preacher for Episcopal Church; prof. history and literature Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, 1856-1863; ordained priest, Episcopal Church, 1862; prof. Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass., 1871-1881; examiner claims, chief of legal division, Department of State, 1885-1889; died Washington, D.C., February 21, 1889)
Associated languageeng