HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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born 12 mo. 3, 1839, died 10 mo. 20, 

 1865; Charles M.. born 7 mo. 25, 1841, 

 educated at Foiilke's school at Gwyn- 

 edd, and Friends' Central School, Phila- 

 delphia; entered mercantile business in 

 Philadelphia, 1861, retired 1872, married 

 at Paris,. France, December 10, 1872, 

 Sar.Th A. Cushing. of New York city; 

 Job Roberts, born 2 mo. 23, 1843; Anna 

 S., born 1846; and Eleanor, 1850. 



Job Roberts Foulke, son of Benjamin 

 G. and Jane (Mather) Foulke, born at 

 Quakertown, 2 mo. 23, 1843, has been 

 trust officer of the Provident Life and 

 Trust Company of Philadelphia for 

 many years. He married, 5 mo. 25, 1869, 

 Emma Bullock, daughter of Samuel and 

 Jemima R. Bullock, of Mt. Holly, Ne\Y 

 Jersey, and has two children; Roland 

 Roberts, and Rebecca Mulford. Roland 

 Roberts, a member of the Philadelphia 

 bar, married, June 6, 1900, Ellen R. 

 Griffith, daughter of Manuel E. and 

 Mary E. Griffith, of Philadelphia. 



Eleanor Foulke, daughter of Benja- 

 min G. and Jane (Mather) Foulke, is, 

 the only one of the family to retain her 

 residence in Bucks county. She resides 

 at the old family mansion at Quaker- 

 town, and is unmarried. 



WILLIAM HENRY FOULKE, one 

 of the enterprising, practical farmers 

 of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was 

 there born in Richland Centre. July 4, 

 1841, on the farm he now occupies and 

 cultivates, it being one of the original 

 Foulks homesteads. William is the son 

 of Hugh and Sarah (Roberts) Foulke, 

 and grandson of Hugh Foulke, who was 

 a farmer by occupation and the founder 

 and a trustee of the subscription schools 

 of his district. He is a descendant of 

 Hugh Foulke, the first of the name born 

 in America. An old Bible now in the 

 possession of Mrs. Susan Hannah Biehn, 

 sister of William Henry Foulke. gives 

 the record of his birth. July, 1685. and 

 death, May 21, 1760. He married Ann 



, who was born November 3, 



1693, and died September 10, 1773. They 

 were the parents of the following named 

 children: i. Mary, born September 24, 

 1714; 2. Martha, June 2. 1716; 3. Sam- 

 uel, December 4, 1718: 4- Ellen, Janu- 

 ary 19, 1720; 5. John, December 21, 

 1722; 6. Thomas, January 14. 1724; 7- 

 William, December 10, 1728; 8. Edward, 

 October 19, 1729; 9. Ann, January I, 

 1732; 10. Jane, January 3, 1734. 



Hugh Foulke, father of William Hen- 

 ry Foulke, was born in Richland town- 

 ship, Bucks county. Pennsylvania. His 

 education was obtained in the subscrip- 

 tion schools of his district, and the fol- 

 lowed the quiet but useful calling of a 

 farmer. He married Miss Sarah Rob- 

 erts, daughter of John and Sarah Rob- 



erts, and the following children were 

 the issue of this union: i. Catherine, 

 born September 6, 1835. married Isaac 

 Tomlinson, of New Britain township; 

 2. Julia Ann, born December 4, 1839, 

 married Henry Dotts of Montgomery 

 county, Pennsylvania; 3. William Henry, 

 mentioned at length herein after; 4. Sa- 

 rah Martha, born August 19, 1843, mar- 

 ried (first) David Hillegas, of Quaker- 

 town, and (second) Henry Sonders, far- 

 mer, of lower Richland township; 5. 

 Charles Edward, born in 1845, married, 

 1870, Anna, the daughter of Warner and 

 Alice (Singley) Haycock, farmers, 

 Whitemarsh township, Montgomery 

 county, Pennsylvania; 6. Elizabeth, 

 born March 6, 1847, married Charles 

 Miller, and resides at Hockerstown, 

 Montgomery county; 7. Hester Ellen, 

 born November 16, 1850, married Nicho- 

 las Martin, of Stowe. Montgomery 

 county; 8. Susan Hannah, born Octo- 

 ber 25, 1852, married Andrew Biehn, 

 lives at PaletQwn, Richland township; 9. 

 Anna, born April 15. i860, married Fran- 

 cis Fellman. 



William Henry Foulke, third child 

 and eldest son of Hugh and Sarah (Rob- 

 erts) Foulke, obtained his educational 

 training in the Rocky Ridge public 

 school at Paletown, remaining there 

 until his nineteenth year. After leaving 

 the school William assisted with the 

 farm work, and later he and his brother, 

 Charles Edward, purchased the place. 

 They were engaged in the cultivation of 

 the farm until 1891, when the partner- 

 ship was dissolved. William sold his 

 interest in the property to Charles and 

 purchased the Hugh Foulke farm, the 

 old family homestead, comprising sev- 

 enty-two acres of improved land and 

 forest. Mr. Foulke is an industrious, 

 useful member of the community, and 

 an excellent farmer. In matters of poli- 

 tics he affiliates with the Republican 

 party, and, although he takes a deep and 

 lasting interest in the welfare of that 

 organization has never aspired to public 

 office. He is actively interested in edu- 

 cational affairs, and served twelve years 

 as school director. 



January 25, 1883, William Henry 

 Foulke was united in marriage to 

 Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Charles 

 Pilgrim. V. S.. of New York city, and 

 widow of George S. Plant, Esq., of Nor- 

 folk. England. Mrs. Foulke was born 

 at Hudson, on the Hudson river, near 

 Albany, New York, May 31. 1847- Dm"- 

 ing her first husband's life she lived for 

 a time in England, and later near Quak- 

 ertown. Mrs. Foulke is a woman of 

 bright and active disposition and assists 

 in the management of the home farm. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Foulke are the parents of 

 one child, Mary Elizabeth, born June 

 5, 1888; she was educated in the public 

 schools of Paletown, and now resides at 

 home with her parents. 



