BIO:  Foulk Jones, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 164

FOULK JONES was born in Carnaervon County, Wales, December 25, 1822, and came to America in 
1848.  He settled in Peach Bottom Township, and engaged in slate quarrying for about eighteen 
months, and then crossed to Lancaster County, where he operated a quarry for about nine years, 
after which he returned to Peach Bottom, and bought a tract of slate land at Slate Hill, on 
which he, with a partner, opened a quarry, and worked it with varied success until 1873, when 
it was abandoned.  He was active in building the York & Peach Bottom Railroad, and was a member 
of its first board of directors, and he also contributed largely to the construction of the 
Maryland & Central Railroad, being, for a time, a director and president of the Pennsylvania 
Division.  Mr. Jones owns three fine farms in Peach Bottom Township, besides one in Harford 
County, Md.  On one of his York County farms he has conducted a successful dairy.  He has a 
fair English education, received in Wales and after he came to America.  He married, in 
Lancaster, Penn., November 5, 1885, Miss Rebecca Marshall, a native of that county, and has had 
born to him six children, three of whom are living:  Maggie J., Dienal Wyn and Marshall F.  Mr. 
Jones has held the office of township auditor and school director.  The family are connected 
with the Presbyterian Church