Person:Richard Sharpe (4)

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1920 census:^[3]

Sharpe, Richard Head 67 yrs b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. England/Pennsylvania) Trustee (Estate)

      Margaret J. Wife 55 yrs b. Virginia (parents, b. Kentucky/Louisiana)

      Carolina J. Dau 23 yrs (single) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania/Virginia)

      Magaret J. Dau 16 yrs b. Mississippi (parents, b. Pennsylvania/Virginia)

      Richard Son 14 yrs b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania/Virginia)

Headman, Mary Maid 20 yrs (single) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania) Maid (Private Family)

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1930 census:^[4]

Sharpe, Richard Head 77 yrs (wid.; marr. at 39 yrs) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania) "None"

      Mary Sister 80 yrs (single) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania) "None"

Rice, Gertrude Servant 49 yrs (single) b. New York (parents, b. New York) Housekeeper (Private family)

Spaide, Margaret Servant 20 yrs (single) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania) Servant (Private family)

Ader, Anna Servant 23 yrs (marr.) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Germany) Cook (Private family)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Find A Grave.

   Richard Sharpe

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Pennsylvania, United States. Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 [database online] . (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T625)
   ED 240, p. 7B, family/dwelling 134/188 (80 W. River St).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 240, p. 10B, family/dwelling 205/206 (80 W. River St).
5.   United States. Passport applications, 1795-1925. (Washington, D.C. : National Archives)
   29 Mar 1898.

   No. 89.
   Richard Sharpe applies to the U.S. embassy at Rome.
   Born at Summit Hill, Pa., 3 Jun 1852.
   Residence: Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
   Occupation: Capitalist.
   Left the U.S. 26 Feb 1898, now temporarily sojourning at Palermo. Bearer of Passport No. 12492, issue 3 Jun 1889. Intend to return to the U.S. "within a year." Desires a passport for purpose of "travelling and that I have never applied elsewhere for a United States passport and been refused."
   Description: Age 45 yrs, 5' 8", high forehead, gray eyes, medium nose, large mouth, full chin, brown hair, light complexion, thin face.

6.   Unknown newspaper (Luzerne County, Pennsylvania)
   20 Mar 1937.

   Richard Sharpe.
   
   Glen Summit, Pa., Sept. 20 --- A man who in his lifetime saw the mining of anthracite become one of the country's major industries, Richard Sharpe, fifth, of Wilkes-Barre, died yesterday at his summer home here in the Poconos. He was 85.
   
   A graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1875, Mr. Sharpe was a financier, philanthropist, art collector and a priminent layman in the Episcopal Church. He was one of the eight surviving members of the class who returned the reunion in June, 1936, at New Haven.
   
   He established the Sharpe Memorial Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania and gave two floors at the new Wilkes-Barre General Hospital as a memorial to his mother and father. The latter, born in Langham, Rutlandshire, England, , came to the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania in 1826 and became a pioneer in the development of the anthracite industry.
   
   He leaves four children, Dr. Margaret Johnston Sharpe, of Media, Pa.; Mrs. Yale Stevens, of Rye, N.Y.; Mrs. Marion S. Sanders of Wytheville, Va.; and Richard Sharpe, Sixth, of New York. Mrs. Sharpe, who was a granddaughter of the noted Confederate general, Albert Sidney Johnston, died in 1922.