Wharton, Francis
clergyman, educator, author, was born March 7, 1820, in Philadelphia. He was an episcopal clergyman of Boston, and professor of ecclesiastical and international law in the Episcopal Theological school at Cambridge. He was the author of Criminal Law of the United States; Medical Jurisprudence; State Trials of the United States; The Silence of Scripture; Treatise on Theism; Precedents of Indictments; The Law of Homicide in the United States; The Conflict of Laws; Law of Agency and Agents; Digest of International Law (with M. Stillé); The Law of Negligence; Commentary on the Law of Evidence in Civil Issues; and The Law of Contracts. He died Feb. 21, 1889, in Washington, D. C.