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    Joseph Wharton (March 3, 1826 – January 11, 1909) was an American industrialist. He was involved in mining, manufacturing, and education. He founded the...
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  • donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school. The Wharton School awards...
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  • Joseph Wharton Lippincott (February 28, 1887 – October 22, 1976) was a noted publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman. He was the grandson of Joshua...
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  • Joseph Wharton Lippincott Jr., (1914–2003) was Chairman and President of Philadelphia publisher J. B. Lippincott Company. He was born in Bethayres, Pennsylvania...
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    forest is named for Joseph Wharton, who purchased most of the land that now lies within the forest in the 19th century. Wharton wanted to tap the groundwater...
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    The list of notable Wharton School alumni are graduates of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton offers four degree programs: undergraduate...
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  • nearly a century, beginning with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton, which was the first collegiate (undergraduate)...
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    Wharton on April 16, 1902, based on a referendum held that day and subject to legislation passed on March 27, 1902. The borough was named for Joseph Wharton...
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    Ben Nelson (businessman) (category Wharton School alumni)
    Nelson graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics with Honors as a Joseph Wharton Scholar. "Debate: In An...
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    president of Lehigh Valley Railroad, William Thurston, and Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, to meet with Jaques...
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  • Joseph Wharton (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1707; died there on July 27, 1776) was a successful American merchant, and the owner of "Walnut...
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  • from Philadelphia. His father, Charles William Wharton, was the brother of Joseph Wharton, founder of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His...
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    Ivanka Trump (category Wharton School alumni)
    2012, the Wharton Club of New York, the official Wharton alumni association for the New York metropolitan area, gave Trump the Joseph Wharton Award for...
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    house were designed by Charles L. Bevins and built for industrialist Joseph Wharton in the 1880s. It is also notable as an early example of the lower-key...
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    Quakers who founded Swarthmore College along with her industrialist son, Joseph Wharton. She was a contemporary and friend of Lucretia Mott and had many of...
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    Philadelphia merchant Joshua Fisher (1707–1783), the great-grandfather of Joseph Wharton. It overlooks the Schuylkill River from the east, just north of the...
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  • college was founded in 1864 by Deborah Fisher Wharton, along with her industrialist son, Joseph Wharton, together with a committee of members of the Hicksite...
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    Edith Wharton (/ˈhwɔːrtən/; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's...
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    public park which was laid out and owned by Joseph Wharton, founder of Swarthmore College and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. It...
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  • named for its founder, the publisher Joseph Wharton Lippincott of J. B. Lippincott & Co. His son, Joseph Wharton Lippincott Jr., also a publisher, and...
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  • Co. His grandson Joseph Wharton Lippincott (1887–1976), American publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman His son Joseph Wharton Lippincott Jr. (1914–2003)...
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    whose intrinsic worth did not approach their face value. Industrialist Joseph Wharton advocated coins containing nickel—a metal in which he had significant...
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    industrialist Joseph Wharton, built the house in response to the government condemning his earlier summer home in order to build Fort Wetherill. Wharton summered...
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    coinage of pieces above the denomination of three cents." Industrialist Joseph Wharton had a near-monopoly on the mining of nickel in the United States, and...
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    three-cent note. The advocates were led by Pennsylvania industrialist Joseph Wharton, who then controlled the domestic supply of nickel ore. On the last...
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    Jeff Fluhr (category Wharton School alumni)
    the University of Pennsylvania. He won the Joseph Wharton Award for Young Leadership, presented by the Wharton Club of New York. After attending college...
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    Stephen J. Connell, Jr.: 1992-1997; (Assistant Pastor) 1962-1963 Rev. Joseph Wharton: (Assistant Pastor) 1994-1997 Msgr. Thomas Cini: 1997–1998, Previously...
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  • Dawn Fitzpatrick (category Wharton School alumni)
    University of Pennsylvania Wharton Club of New York presented Fitzpatrick with the 2020 Joseph Wharton Award for Leadership "for the Wharton alumnus who embodies...
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    banquet with fireworks display. The site was Walnut Grove, the mansion of Joseph Wharton. The crowd of over 400 guests included Admiral of the Fleet Richard...
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  • named Wharton include: A C Wharton, Former Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. (1899–1990), American diplomat Clifton R. Wharton, Jr...
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