Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Thomas Isaac WHARTON
Graduate of Univ. of Penna. Studied law in the office of his uncle William Rawle. In the War of 1812 MR. WHARTON served as a lieutenant in the Washington Guards of Philadelphia. Trustee of University of Penna. He was the author of several law treatises and a contributor to various magazines, author of Wharton's Digest and editor of six volumes of Wharton's Reports. He acquired a large and extensive practice, was a distinguished lawyer, and had a reputation of great integrity and high legal abilities.
WHARTON, Thomas Isaac, lawyer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 17, 1791; son of Isaac and Margaret (Rawle) Wharton; grandson of Joseph (1707-1776) and Hannah (Carpenter) Wharton and of Francis and Rebecca (Warner) Rawle, and a descendant of Thomas Wharton, who immigrated to Pennsylvania prior to 1688 from Westmoreland, England. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1807, A.M., 1810; was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a reporter of the Pennsylvania supreme court; served as a captain in the U.S. infantry in the war of 1812, and was one of three commissioners appointed to codify the civil statutes of Pennsylvania, 1830. He was married to Arabella, daughter of John and May (Corré) Griffith of Philadelphia, Pa. He was treasurer of the Law association of Philadelphia, 1827-41, and vice-chancellor, 1854-56; a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, 1837-56, and a member of the American Philosophical society, and other scientific organizations. He edited the Analectic Magazine after the death of Joseph Dennie in 1812; Alexander J. Dallas's "Reports of Cases in the Courts of the United States" (4 vols., 3d ed., 1830); was an associate editor of the "Law Library" (1833), and of William Selwyn's "Abridgement of the Law of Nisi Prius" (5th ed., 1839), and is the author of: Digest of Cases in the Circuit Court of the United States, etc. (1822; 6th ed., 2 vols., 1853); Digested Index to the Reported Decisions of the Several Courts of Law in Western and Southern States (1824); Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (6 vols., 1836-41), and several addresses, memoirs and articles. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 7, 1856.
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