NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  WHARTON, Nathan B.
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>From the 
The Ohio Biographies Project
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NATHAN B. WHARTON, was born in what is now Marion Township, May 10, 1844.
He received such advantages for education as were offered by the district
schools of that day. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company D,
Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a member of that command
until March, 1863, when he was discharged at Carthage, Tennessee, by reason
of disability contracted in the service. May 2, 1864, he again entered the
service, this time as a member of Company C., One Hundred and Sixty-first
Ohio National Guards. He served in this company until it was discharged
from the service, at Camp Chase, September 6, 1864. On his return to his
home he began the study of the law in the office of Hon. J. M. Dalzell, and
was admitted to practice by the district court of Columbia County, April
26, 1871. At the October election of 1881, he was elected prosecuting
attorney of Noble County, which position he filled creditably for three
years. in July, 1885, he was appointed special agent for the General Land
Office with headquarters at St. Cloud, Minnesota. He married Miss Amelia
A., daughter of Kinsey and Louisa John, Spril 27, 1865, and has a family of
ten children.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago
1887 The Legal Profession

Transcribed by Deb Murray <debmurray@worldnet.att.net>