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The H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as Heinz (/ h aɪ n z /), was an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [2] The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869.
Wharton is a city in and the county seat of Wharton County, Texas, United States. [4] This city is 60 mi (97 km) southwest of Houston . Its population was 8,832 at the 2010 census and 8,627 at the 2020 census .
Wharton's sometime collaborator, Ogden Codman, Jr., assisted with the architectural design. Wharton's niece, Beatrix Jones Farrand, designed the kitchen garden and the drive; Farrand was the only woman of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Edith Wharton and her husband, Edward, lived in the Mount from 1902 to 1911.
Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) is a public community college with its main campus in Wharton, Texas. The college also has campuses in Richmond, Sugar Land, and Bay City. [4] WCJC offers a range of postsecondary educational programs and services including associate degrees, certificates, and continuing-education courses.
Heinze in the 1890s. Heinze arrived in Butte, Montana, in 1889 as a mining engineer for the Boston and Montana Company.He became known for his hard drinking and fun-loving antics in Butte's saloons and gambling dens, whilst donning society dress and having a shy demeanor and polished manners that impressed the ladies. [5]
Wharton is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 7,241, [9] [10] an increase of 719 (+11.0%) from the 2010 census count of 6,522, [19] [20] which in turn reflected an increase of 224 (+3.6%) from the 6,298 counted in the 2000 census.
Afterward, Wharton moved to Mexican Texas, and on December 5, 1827, married Sarah Ann Groce, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Their only child was a son, John A. Wharton (1828–1865), who served in the American Civil War as a Confederate major general. The Wharton family established a farm known as Eagle Island Plantation. [2]
The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937 and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party, to which Guy Thwaite has