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\"Pennsylvania Senator\" George W. Pepper Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale "Pennsylvania Senator" George W. Pepper Clipped Signature. 

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George Wharton Pepper (March

16, 1867 – May 24, 1961) was an American lawyer, law professor at

the University

of Pennsylvania Law School, Christian activist, and Republican

politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He States Senate, and

founded the law firm of Pepper Hamilton. Pepper was born to upper-class parents,

physician (and former Union cavalry officer) George Pepper and his wife, the

former Mehitable ("Hitty") Markoe Wharton, on March 16, 1867. Each

was descended from families prominent in the region since the colonial

era: Pennsylvania Dutch on

his father's side and Quakers and Episcopalians on his mother's.

He was born in his paternal grandmother's house, in a fashionable neighborhood,

1215 Walnut Street. Their first child had died in infancy, and the family soon

moved to quarters on Pine Street. Dr. Wharton died when George was seven and

his only sister Frances a newborn, so the family moved to smaller quarters, 346

S. 16th Street in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood

with his grandmother. His mother home-schooled her then weak-eyed son, with the

assistance of his uncle, Dr. William Pepper (whom he considered like a father

after his own father's demise), and later a blind tutor, John F. Maher.[1] His grandmother's summer estate up

the Schuylkill River later became one of those consolidated into Laurel Hill Cemetery. He

considered Willie Ryder his best friend, noting that he was

"colored"; and also remembered informally competing at memory

exercises with boys from a nearby prep school. In 1876, his mother

remarried, to his father's friend and former classmate, lawyer Ernest

Zantzinger. Admitted to his

father's (and step-father's) alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania,

Pepper was active in athletics (rowing crew, becoming captain of his class

football and cricket teams and winning the hammer throw for the track-and-field

team) and drama. In addition to academic activities (for which he earned

a Phi Beta Kappa key he

often twirled later in his life), Pepper started the school newspaper and

edited a literary magazine (which later merged into The Daily Pennsylvanian).

He also joined several organizations, including the Zeta Psi fraternity, Sketch club and Philomathean Society.

Pepper graduated first in his class from the college in 1887. Then he followed

the examples of his maternal grandfather and stepfather, entering the University

of Pennsylvania Law School, from which he also graduated first in

his class and with several honors in 1889.

On

November 25, 1890, in New Haven, Connecticut,

Pepper married Charlotte Root Fischer (1865-1951), daughter of Professor George Park Fisher, dean

of the Yale Divinity School. They

had three children: Adeline Louise Forbes Pepper (1892-1971), George Wharton

Pepper, Jr. (1895-1949), and Charlotte Eleanor Pepper (1897-1930). Both

daughters married Fitz Eugene Newbold, Adeline seven years after her sister

Charlotte's death and eventually surviving him as well as her parents. 

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