Deborah Fisher Wharton
Deborah Fisher Wharton (1795 – 1888) was an American Quaker minister, suffragist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights, and the mother of industrialist Joseph Wharton. She was one of a small group of dedicated Quakers who founded Swarthmore College. 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.
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![Deborah Fisher Wharton](/photos/deborah-fisher-wharton.jpg)
Birth date | January 01, 1795 |
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Date of death | January 01, 1888 |
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