Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Foulke, Richard C., Dr
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   RICHARD C. FOULKE physician, P.O. New Hope, was born in 
New Hope, November 2, 1843, and is a son of Charles and 
Harriet (Corson) Foulke.  His father, also a physician, was 
a native of Pennlynn, Montgomery county, and began the study 
of medicine with Dr. Hiram Corson, of Plymouth, Pa., and was 
graduated from the Medical university of Philadelphia in 
1835.  In 1842 he located in New Hope, where he was actively 
engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in 
1871.  In 1842 he married Harriet, daughter of Dr. Richard 
Corson, of this county, by whom he had three children:  
Richard C., Edward and Thomas, the latter deceased.  Dr. 
Richard Corson was a native of Bucks county and a prominent 
physician of his time.  He died in 1842.  He was a son of 
Richard Corson, a pioneer of Solebury, who died in 1812.  
Richard C. Foulke, the subject of this sketch, was reared in 
New Hope, and began the study of medicine with his father in 
1866, and was graduated from the medical university of 
Pennsylvania in 1869.  He began practice in New Hope the 
same year, and has been in active practice ever since.  He 
was married in 1872 to Louisa, daughter of Edward and Jane 
(Willett) Van Zant of Solebury.  He has two children living: 
 Charles E. and Claribel V.   Dr. Foulke is a member of the 
Bucks County Medical society, and of the I. O. O. F.   He 
has been burgess of New Hope for seven terms.  Politically 
he is a republican.