Bellevue Mansion
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Bellevue Mansion was a historic country house in North Philadelphia. The site on which it stood is now between North Marston and North Etting Streets, near 29th Street and Allegheny Avenue.
Bellevue Mansion, looking south from Nicetown Lane in 1856. Painting by Edmund Darch Lewis.
Bellevue Mansion in 1858
Charles Wharton purchased Bellevue in 1802
Deborah Fisher Wharton, daughter of Samuel R. Fisher, in the year she was married.
Joseph Wharton
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Joseph Wharton was an American industrialist. He was involved in mining, manufacturing, and education. He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College.
Wharton in 1902
Wharton, c. 1850
Wharton's tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia