Deborah Fisher Wharton
Teacher, Deceased Person
1795 – 1888
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Who was Deborah Fisher Wharton?
Deborah Fisher Wharton was an American Quaker minister, suffragist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights, and the mother of industrialist Joseph Wharton. She was one of a small group of dedicated Quakers who founded Swarthmore College. She was a contemporary and friend of Lucretia Mott and had many of Mott's sympathies but did not actively pursue the women's rights cause, rather she was a proponent of liberal Quaker spirituality.
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- Born
- 1795
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- 1888
Philadelphia
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on July 23, 2013
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