Deborah Fisher Wharton was an American Quaker minister, suffragist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights. She was one of a small group of dedicated Quakers who founded Swarthmore College al
Deborah Fisher Wharton
Deborah Fisher Wharton, in 1817 the year she was married.
Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, South Carolina (Deborah F. Wharton Industrial Hall on the right)
A Newport family gathering in 1884. Deborah Fisher Wharton with her daughter Esther F.W. Smith and family on front porch steps of Esther and Ben Smith's summer house on Newport waterfront. Deborah is older woman sitting with white bonnet. Esther sits by post with Esther Hallowell on lap. Standing behind her is husband Benjamin R Smith. Anna Smith (Wood) leans against post. Next is William Wharton Smith, and sitting on rail, Anna Wharton (Morris), and far right, Edward Wanton Smith. Esther Morton Smith stands by left post. Behind Deborah are Robert and Hannah Haydock, parents of Sally Hallowell, with baby Susan on lap, sitting on step behind her 3 boys. Leaning on railing at left is Evelyn Meyer. Just below Deborah is Anna Hallowell and Polly Wharton against the post. Joanna Wharton (Lippincott) is sitting on upper step behind 2 boys.
Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women e
Deborah Fisher Wharton
…small group of dedicated Quakers who founded Swarthmore College along with her industrialist son, Joseph Wharton. She was a contemporary and friend of Lucretia Mott and had many of Mott's sympathies but did not actively pursue the women's rights cause, rather she was a proponent of liberal Quaker spirituality…
Signed portrait, c. 1870-1880
James and Lucretia Mott, 1842
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, N 5th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sculptor Lloyd Lillie's "The First Wave" statues in the Women's Rights National Historical Park Visitor Center. On the far left are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass (with Lucretia Mott and James Mott not visible behind them); of the two women in the front, the one on the right is Martha Coffin Wright; the man and woman standing together in the rear are Thomas M'Clintock and Mary Ann M'Clintock. The others are unidentified.