Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American writer and historian.

[6] She devoted herself primarily to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of books and magazine articles in this field,[7][8] and was chosen historian of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

[9] In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago.

Lippincott Company published her book, English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans.

[11] During the summer of 1928, Wharton fell ill. She died three weeks later, at the age of eighty-three, at her home at 2220 Locust Street in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 29, 1928.