Family of Ormsby.
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Third regiment of artillery, 6 July, 1825; captain in the Sixth regiment of infantry 22 April, 1830; captain in the First regiment of dragoons 4 March, 1833; major, same regiment, 4 July, 1836; lieutenant-colonel, same regiment, 30 June, 1846; d. Fort Leavenworth, Kan., 12 July, 1848; son of Lieut. Col. Franklin Wharton, commandant of the Marine corps, appointed under the administration of President Madison, by his wife, Mary Clifton, dau. William Clifton of Philadelphia.[1] Issue: | |||||
1. Clifton Wharton, b. 19 August, 1839; ed. St. James college, Md.; m. 29 January, 1863, to Jane Elizabeth Page, dau. John Harding Page of Pittsburgh, by his wife Sidney Ormsby. Issue: | |||||
1. Clifton Wharton, b. 16 January, 1864; m. 17 October, 1889, to Carrie Louise Jackson, dau. James W. Jackson of Plainfield, N. J. Issue: | |||||
1. Susan Clifton Wharton. | |||||
2. Etta Ormsby Wharton. | |||||
3. Sidney Page Wharton. | |||||
4. John Harding Page Wharton, b. 27 December, 1869. | |||||
5. Oden Hughart Wharton, b. 26 January, 1872. | |||||
6. Oliver Franklin Wharton, b. 23 December, 1873. | |||||
7. Mary Ormsby Wharton. | |||||
2. Oliver Franklin Wharton, ed. St. James college, Md. | |||||
3. Mary Etta Wharton, d. young. |
- ↑ See Genealogy of the Wharton Family of Philadelphia, 1664 to 1880, by Anne H. Wharton. Published by the Historical Society of Penna.
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