Postbellum
Wharton became a legislator in the Virginia General Assembly and then returned to his pre-war career as a mining engineer. He was also instrumental in building the railroad in Southwest Virginia in New River Valley.
Wharton died in the spring of 1906 at Radford, Virginia, at the age of 81, and was buried in the Wharton Family Cemetery located in Radford.
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