Joseph Wharton
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Joseph Wharton ( March 3, 1826 – January 11, 1909) founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company. He also was one of the founders of Swarthmore College. As an undergraduate at Penn, Wharton served as moderator of the Philomathean Society, the nation's oldest continually existing literary society.
Wharton created Fisher Park, a 23 acre park in the Olney neighborhood in Philadelphia. It was donated to the city by Wharton in 1908 as a "Christmas gift" to Philadelphia. Wharton's vast landholdings in southern New Jersey were sold to the state in the 1950s by his heirs, and now form the core of the Wharton State Forest.
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