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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr. (September 13, 1926 – November 16, 2024) was an American university president, corporate executive, and United States deputy...
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  • Jesse Wharton (July 29, 1782 – July 22, 1833) was an attorney who briefly represented Tennessee in each house of Congress. Wharton was born in Covesville...
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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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    Edith Newbold Wharton (/ˈhwɔːrtən/; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc (WEFA Inc) was an economics forecasting and consulting organization founded by Nobel Prize winner Lawrence...
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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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    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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    Alex Gorsky (category Wharton School alumni)
    Mentor of the Year by the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association in 2009 Joseph Wharton Leadership Award in 2014 CADCA Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2014...
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  • Sir Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (1495 – 23 August 1568) was an English nobleman and a follower of King Henry VIII of England. He is best known for...
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    Bellevue Mansion (category Wharton family)
    estate in 1802 by Philadelphia merchant Charles Wharton (1743–1838), grandfather of industrialist Joseph Wharton. It was located about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest...
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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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    1926–1940) Joseph Wharton Lippincott (1926–1949), (Chairman, 1949–1958) Howard K. Bauernfeind (1949–1958), (Chairman, 1958–1973) Joseph W. Lippincott...
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  • - Australian organisational theorist Joseph Wharton (1826–1909) - protective tariffs, business cycles, Wharton School Alasdair A. K. White John Whitmore...
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