Wharton Chapter, NSDAR
The Wharton Chapter, NSDAR, was organized on October 10, 1974, with Fritzi Kranz Martin as organizing regent and 36 organizing members.
The name Wharton, which was the original name of the city of Covington, was the first choice for the new chapter name. There was a previous Wharton Chapter, NSDAR, organized in Covington in 1937 but was disbanded in 1965. John Wharton Collins, a New Orleans merchant, bought 1600 acres of land in the forks of the Tchefuncte and Bogue Falaya Rivers in 1813. He subdivided the area and called it “The Division of Saint John of Wharton,” naming it after his grandfather, John Wharton.
Thomas Wharton Collins, a native of Scotland and the father of John Wharton Collins, is a DAR Patriot and the chapter has sponsored a tree in his honor along the parkway from Philadelphia to Valley Forge called the Pathway of the Patriots.