Background
Wharton, Morton Bryan was born on April 5, 1839 in in Orange Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Malcom H. and Susan Roberts (Colvin) Wharton.
Wharton, Morton Bryan was born on April 5, 1839 in in Orange Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Malcom H. and Susan Roberts (Colvin) Wharton.
Educated Orange Academy, 1854, Culpeper Academy, 1855, Richmond (Virginia) College, 1858-1861, Bachelor of Arts—graduation day prevented by war. University of Virginia Military School, 1861. (Doctor of Divinity, Washington and Lee University, 1875.
Doctor of Laws, University of Alabama, 1906).
Clerk to Major A. M. Barbour, chief quartermaster to General Joseph East. Johnson, 1861-1862. In Baptist ministry as pastor 1st Baptist Church, Bristol, Tennessee, 1862-1864, 1st Baptist Church, Eufaula, Alabama, 1867-1872, Walnut Saint Baptist Church, Louisville, 1872-1875, 1st Baptist Church, Augusta, Georgia, 1876-1877. Correspondent secretary Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1877-1881.
United States consul, Sonneberg, Germany, 1881-1883.
Editor Christian Index, Atlanta, Georgia., 1883-1884. Pastor 1st Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, 1884-1891, Freemason Saint Baptist Church, Norfolk, Virginia, 1891-1899, Brantly Baptist Church, Baltimore, 1899, 1st Baptist Church, Eufaula, Alabama, since 1900.
Weekly contributor to Atlanta (Georgia) Journal, 1903-1904. Maker of word “Pastorium,” coined after analogy of auditorium, meaning a parsonage.
Married Mary Belle Irwin, August 2, 1864.