Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Wharton SINKLER
i on 12 Aug 2009
Dr. Sinkler was born in Philadelphia City, August 7, 1845, while his parents were visiting there. His parents were Charles Sinkler, of Eutawville, S. C., and Emily Sinkler, a daughter of the late Thomas I. Wharton, of Philadelphia. He received his early education at Gambier, Ohio, and Aiken, S. C. Later he entered South Carolina College, but left during his freshman year, when the institution was closed owing to the civil war. He served in the Confederate army during the war,, with the 2d South Carolina cavalry.
At the close of the war he went to Philadelphia to study medicine and was graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania with the class of 1868. He then entered into the practice of his profession in that city as a general practitioner, but, after several years, began to specialize in the study and treatment of nervous diseases.
He married Ella Brock, daughter of the late John Penn Brock, of Philadelphia, in 1872. Dr. Sinkler is survived by his widow, five sons, Charles, John P. B., S. Deas, Francis W. and Wharton, Jr., and two daughters, Julia and Ella Brock Sinkler. Brothers and sisters who survive him are Charles St. George Sinkler, of Eutawville, S. C.; Mrs. Charles B. Coxe, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Charles Stevens, of Monck's Corner, S. C., and Miss Caroline Sinkler, of this city.
Dr. Sinkler was prominent in the medical profession of Philadelphia and throughout the country for more than twenty-five years. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and, after conducting a general practice for a number of years, devoted himself to the diseases affecting the nerves, in which he made his reputation. He was a member of many medical, charitable, literary and social organizations.
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