Morton Bryan Wharton

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Morton Bryan Wharton (April 5, 1839 – July 20, 1908), also known as M. B. Wharton, was an American Baptist clergyman, author, and consul who served as a pastor and minister of many churches in the Southern States. He is also credited for coining the word pastorium to mean "clergy house" in Baptist spaces. Born in Virginia, he first spent his early years as a clerk in several businesses in the state. He was then converted to the Baptist Church when he was eighteen years old. He was later educated at Richmond College and the University of Virginia before being interrupted by the American Civil War, where he served under Alfred Madison Barbour. Following the end of the war, he worked as a pastor in multiple churches in Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia. Because of his health, he later became United States Consul to Sonneberg, where he wrote a memoir on the trip afterwards. He coined the term pastorium to mean "clergy house" following eschewment from using related terms like rectory. He would...

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