Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Anne Hollingsworth WHARTON
Anne H. Wharton attended Mrs. G. C. Cary's private school in Philadelphia, and at an early age began literary production, making 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 Society of Pennsylvania, a member of the New Century club of Philadelphia, and of the Public Education association of Philadelphia. She is the author of: St. Bartholomew's Eve (1866); Virgilia (1869); The Wharton Family (1880); Through Colonial Doorways (1893); Colonial Days and Dames (1894); A Last Contrary Maid (1895); Life of Martha Washington in "Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times" (1897); Heirlooms in Miniatures (1897); Salons, Colonial and Republican (1900); and Social Life in the Early Republic (1902).
WHARTON, Anne Hollingsworth, 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 married 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 Philadelphia merchant and proprietor of the homestead "Walnut Grove," when the Meschianza was held by the British in May, 1778; and on the maternal side fifth in descent from Ensign Andrew Boggs, who served in the French and Indian war, and fourth in descent from Major John Boggs, of the Cumberland county associaters in 1777.
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