NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: WHARTON, Nathan B. *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tina Hursh frog158@juno.com November 4, 1999 *********************************************************************** >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html 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