Person:Morton Wharton (1)

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Morton B. Wharton, Jr.., of Graham, is a son of the distinguished Rev. Morton B. Wharton, D. D., of Norfolk, Va., who served during the early part of the war of the Confederacy, in the department of the chief quartermaster of the army, rendered valuable service in the collection of supplies, and in various other ways ministered to the forces in the field. His family is one of the oldest in Virginia, founded in America by Sir George Wharton, of Westmoreland, England.

The subject of this sketch was born at Eufala, Ala., and during his childhood and youth resided in various parts of the South, as the residence of his father was changed from time to time, and accompanied his father to Germany, when the latter was appointed United States consul. He attended the university of Alabama in 1885-86, and the university of Virginia in 1887-88, and prepared for the profession of law.

In 1890 he was married to Bettie Mebane, daughter of Lieut. L. Banks Holt, and soon afterward relinquished the practice of law at Montgomery, Ala., to take charge of one of the Holt cotton mills, his present occupation, in addition to a partnership in the Oneida Store company at Graham.