Individual Details
Joseph Foulke
(22 May 1786 - 15 Feb 1863)
Events
| Birth | 22 May 1786 | Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States |  | ||
| Religion | 1817 | minister |  | | |
| Misc. | 25 Apr 1836 | Met With President James Buchanan. - White House, Washington D. C., United States | | | |
| Misc. | 1844 | published a memoir of Jacob Ritter | | | |
| Census (family) | 13 Sep 1850 | Gwynedd Boarding School, Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States - Elizabeth Shoemaker | | ||
| Property (Fam) | 13 Sep 1850 | Real Estate Value: $1600 - Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States - Elizabeth Shoemaker | | ||
| Occupation | 13 Sep 1850 | school teacher - Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States | | | |
| Death | 15 Feb 1863 | | |||
| Burial | Aft 15 Feb 1863 | Richland Friends Meeting Burial Ground, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States | | ||
| Marriage | Elizabeth Shoemaker | | |||
| Children (Family) | and they are listed - Elizabeth Shoemaker | | |||
| Reference No | ID2653 | ||||
| Biography | | ||||
| Occupation | wheelwright | | | ||
| Misc. | published "Friends Almanac" | | | ||
| Education | |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Shoemaker (1791 - 1873) |
| Child | Daniel Foulke (1814 - 1888) |
| Child | Thomas Foulke (1817 - 1890) |
| Child | Dr. Joseph Foulke Jr. (1827 - ) |
| Child | Phebe Foulke (1811 - 1876) |
| Child | Ann Foulke (1820 - 1847) |
| Child | Sarah Foulke (1823 - 1840) |
| Father | Hugh Foulke (1751 - 1831) |
| Mother | Ann Roberts (1745 - 1823) |
| Sibling | Cadwallader Foulke (1778 - 1858) |
| Sibling | Hugh Foulke (1788 - 1864) |
| Sibling | Ellen Foulke (1775 - 1846) |
| Sibling | Mary Foulke (1777 - 1855) |
| Sibling | Hannah Foulke (1780 - 1837) |
| Sibling | Sarah Foulke (1783 - 1822) |
Notes
Religion
"In 1817, he appeared as a minister, and was admitted a member of the meeting of ministers and elders in 1821, after which he continued in the ministry to the end of his life, more than forty years. He made numerous visits to distant meetings, including those in New Jersey, New York, Canada, Maryland, Ohio, and Indiana." (Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd, page 440)Misc.
"In 1836 he visited Washington as one of a committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to influence Congress against the admission of Arkansas as a slave state. (See Curtis's Life of James Buchanan, Vol. 1, p 337 and Vol. 2, p 181)"Misc.
"Joseph published (Philadelphia: 1844) a memoir of Jacob Ritter (a preacher among Friends, who had been a Revolutionary soldier: see in Watson's annals details of his confinement in the British prison in Philadelphia).Occupation
". . . in 1811 he took chare of the Friend's School at Plymouth, where he continued for six years; and then, after teaching one year at Upper Dublin, he established in the autumn of 1818, a boarding school for young men and boys, at Gwynedd on part of his father's estate. This school he conducted for many years with marked success, and it was continued later, until about 1860, in the charge of his sons Daniel and Joseph, and his nephew, Hugh Foulke, Jr."Occupation
"He had learned the trade ofa wheelwright (which was also originally the trade of his father), and had expected to pursue it as an occupation, but his inclinations turned to teaching . . . " (Historical Recollections of Gwynedd, p 440)Misc.
"He also conducted for many years the publication of the 'Friends' Almanac,' furnishing for it the astronomical calculations."Endnotes
1. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, Page 266, 439, 440.
2. 1850 US Census, Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Line 15, Dwelling 89, Family 94, Joseph Foulke, ID2653 Household. Original Data: NARA, M432_800, page 77B, Image 337. www.ancestry.com, accessed 13 Nov 2012. Acc002452/Doc1285.pdf.
3. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, page 439, 440.
4. Foulke Family Herald. Published by the Foulke Family Association, www.foulke.org., Nov 1994, page 1.
5. Book, Curtis, George Ticknor. Life of James Buchanan, Vol 2. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. Bk2935, pages 181, 696.
6. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, page 440.
7. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, page 440.
8. 1850 US Census, Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Line 15, Dwelling 89, Family 94, Joseph Foulke, ID2653 Household. Original Data: NARA, M432_800, page 77B, Image 337. www.ancestry.com, accessed 13 Nov 2012. Acc002452/Doc1285.pdf.
9. 1850 US Census, Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Line 15, Dwelling 89, Family 94, Joseph Foulke, ID2653 Household. Original Data: NARA, M432_800, page 77B, Image 337. www.ancestry.com, accessed 13 Nov 2012. Acc002452/Doc1285.pdf.
10. 1850 US Census, Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Line 15, Dwelling 89, Family 94, Joseph Foulke, ID2653 Household. Original Data: NARA, M432_800, page 77B, Image 337. www.ancestry.com, accessed 13 Nov 2012. Acc002452/Doc1285.pdf.
11. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, page 440.
12. Foulke Family Herald. Published by the Foulke Family Association, www.foulke.org., Nov 1994, page 1.
13. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, Page 266.
14. Burials, 1818-1897, Richland mm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935" [database on-line]. Original data: Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes. Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Burials, 1818-1897; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph:556. www.ancestry.com, accessed 23 Feb 2019. Doc5145.pdf, page 19.
15. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, Page 266.
16. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, Page 266.
17. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, pages 266, 439, 440.
18. Davis, W. W. H.. History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time. New York Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1905, Vol. 1-3. www.ancestry.com (Database Online, Digital Images), Bk3104/Doc5790.pdf, page 89.
19. Web Page, RobbHaas, Joseph Foulke - Gracie Mansion Page - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~robbhaas/Foulke/JosephFoulke-GracieMansion.htm#Joseph_Foulke, ID2653.
20. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, page 440.
21. Howard M Jenkins, Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897), Bk2910, page 440.
22. Foulke Family Herald. Published by the Foulke Family Association, www.foulke.org., Nov 1994, page 1.