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Anne HollingsworthWharton was an American writer and historian. Born at Southampton Furnace,Pennsylvania, daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs she waseducated at a private school in Philadelphia. She devoted herself chiefly tothe study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods ofthe United States, wrote a number of entertaining books and magazine articlesin this field, and was chosen historian of The National Society of theColonial Dames of America.