George W. Pepper
George Wharton Pepper was an American lawyer, law professor, Christian activist and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and founded the law firm of Pepper Hamilton.
Pepper was born to upperclass parents, physician George Pepper and his wife Mehitable Markoe Wharton, on March 16, 1867. Each was descended from families prominent in the region since the colonialera Pennsylvania Dutch on his fathers side and Quakers and Episcopalians on his mothers. He was born in his paternal grandmothers house, in a fashionable neighborhood, 1215 Walnut Street. Their first child had died in infancy, and the family soon moved to quarters on Pine Street. Dr. Wharton died when George was seven and his only sister Frances a newborn, so the family moved to smaller quarters, 346 S. 16th Street in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood with his grandmother. His mother homeschooled her then weakeyed son, with the assistance of his uncle Dr. William Pepper and later a blind tutor, John F. Maher. His grandmothers summer estate up the Schuylkill River later became one of those consolidated into Laurel Hill Cemetery. He considered Willie Ryder his best friend, noting that he wa
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