Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Foulke, William G.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   WILLIAM G. FOULKE attorney-at-law, 221 South Fifth 
street, Philadelphia, was born in Quakertown, Bucks county, 
Pa., January 5, 1837, and is a son of Edward and Matilda G. 
Foulke.  His grandfather was Edward Foulke, of Richland 
township, Bucks county, and of Welsh descent.  The subject 
of this sketch spent he early life on the farm.  He was 
educated in the schools of the neighborhood and at the age 
of 20 began teaching in the common schools.  He afterward 
attended Normal school, then taught in the grammar school 
department of the Friends' Central school at Philadelphia 
for several years.  He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar 
in June, 1865, after a course of study with Judge F. Carroll 
Brewster, and a two years' course in the legal department of 
the Pennsylvania university, and has since been engaged in 
the practice of his profession in the city of Philadelphia.  
June 5, 1873, he was married to Anna C., daughter of Isaac 
Jeanes, a merchant of Philadelphia.  By her he has three 
children:  Edward, Anna L. and Walter L.