BIO: B. Carl WHARTON, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 248. __________________________________________________________ B. CARL WHARTON, A.B. Mount Union, Pa. Insurance Agent and Broker: Born at Altoona, Pa., August 5, 1904. A son of S. Hayes and Grace R. (Shaver) Wharton. Early schooling, Mount Union, Pa.; graduate Mount Union High School, class of 1923; Penna. State College, class of 1927, receiving degree of A.B. College fraternities: (Omega Epsilon), (Delta Sigma Po), (Kappa Kappa Pi), and (Pi Delta Epsilon). Fraternal orders: Masonic, No. 700, State College; Harrisburg Consistory; I.O.O.F., No. 677, Mount Union, Pa. Activities relating to Mount Union, Pa.: Secretary Mount Union Club, Chamber of Commerce, Vice-President Mount Union Progressive Association, Country Club, charter member of Rotary Club and its Secretary, organized 1929; Secretary Building and Loan Association. Other activities are: Non-Commissioned officer in Reserve Officers' Training Corps; at Penn State, member of band; Penn State advertising manager, Penn State "Collegian." business manager literary magazine "Old Main Bell." circulation manager year book "La Vie," permanent secretary and treasurer of class of '27, Penn State, and Vice-President Intra-Mural Council of Local Fraternities. And climbing higher we find him a student in correspondence with the Alexander Hamilton Institute, General Business Correspondence, an educational course put out by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., and also matriculated in Aetna educational course on casualty lines. He is president of Sunday School class. A Presbyterian. A Republican. Swimming and golf are his pastimes. As to his score in golf, deponent sayeth not. He has one brother, Clyde Shaver Wharton, of Johnstown, Pa. a graduate of the Mount Union High School, a Senior at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. Present business, insurance and insurance broker; real estate and business opportunities. He maintains an office force in the Wharton Building, Mount Union, Pa. Is single. B. Carl Wharton is a type of man that is beneficial to any community. where action is needed to spur men on to greater deeds. His latest achievement was the taking over of the Union Sales Company, which has been operated by C. B. Lukens. This will add to his already large and fast increasing business.