Shoemaker
HENRY WHARTON, an American newspaper publisher, born in New York, in 1882. He was educated at Columbia University, N. Y. In 1903 and 1904 he served as secretary of the American Legation, Lisbon, Portugal, and of the American Embassy, Berlin, Germany. From 1905 to 1911 he was a member of the New York banking house of Shoemaker, Bates & Co., and since then director of numerous business corporations. Beginning with 1905, he was at various times the owner and publisher of several daily newspapers, chiefly in towns of Pennsylvania, acquiring finally the Altoona, Pa., "Tribu Pa., "Tribune" and "Gazette."
He was a member of the Associated Press, and a member of many domestic and foreign scientific, benevolent, and patriotic societies. At various times he held commissions in the New York and Pennsylvania National Guard. During the World War he served as a captain of the Military Intelligence Division, General Staff, United States Army, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Commissions for National Defence and of Public Safety.
He edited "Philosophy of Jake Haiden" (1911); "The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania" (1919), and was the author of "Immaterial Verses" (1898); "Wild Life in Western Pennsylvania" (1903); "Pennsylvania Mountain Verses" (1907); "Pennsylvania Mountain Stories" (1907); "More Pennsylvania Mountain Stories" ," "Stories of Great Pennsylvania worked as an accountant. In a short time he secured employment by National banks in Iowa, to standardize and simplify their methods of bookkeeping. He studied law and for a short time practiced, but soon became interested in railroad construction and management, and took part in the building of several important railways in the west. He also became a partial and controlling owner in several important roads. In 1905 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission. He formulated the plans of that work and continued in this capacity until February, 1907, when he was president of the Interborough-Metropolitan Co., of New York, afterward the Interborough Consolidated Corporation.
He was also president or an official in many other railroads and financial institutions. He died in 1919. chosen