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DANIEL FOULKE, first son and second child of Joseph and Lydia (Walton) Foulke, was born February 21, 1814, at Plymouth Meeting. He attended the Foulke Boarding School, then kept by his father, and succeeded to the management of the same as principal in 1857, and continued as the head of that institution until its close, 1859-60, after which he took up the occupation of surveyor and conveyancer, and the management of estates. On April 8, 1847, he married Elizabeth Foulke, daughter of William and Susan Foulke. He settled at “Linden Lodge,” the family homestead on Bethlehem Pike, which at that time contained seventy-nine acres, and which is now owned by Abigail W. Foulke, his daughter, who purchased the same at the settlement of the estate in 1898. The child born of his marriage was:

1. Anna, born November 5, 1848; married July 6, 1870, Henry S. Solliday, of Decatur, Illinois. Mrs. Foulke, mother of this child died, and Daniel Foulke then married Lydia Walton, the ceremony being performed October 13, 1853. The children of this marriage were: 1. Edwin Moore, born October 10, 1854; married, June 6, 1877, Elva Jones, daughter of Mark and Eliza (Shearer) Jones, of Plymouth township, and their children were: Hester Bell, born August 19, 1878, married October 22, 1901, Henry Sharpless, of Baltimore, Maryland, formerly of Chester county, Pennsylvania; Helen Eliza, born August 1, 1880, resides at West Chester, where she is a teacher in the high school; Lydia Walton, born August 3, 1884, attends Swarthmore College; and Eliza Jones, born January 15, 1889, resides at West Chester. 2. Abigail Walton, born April 21, 1856; attended Swarthmore College, resides at “Linden Lodge,” and is managing directress of Squirrel Inn, Catskill Mountains, New York. 3. Joseph Thomas, born April 24, 1863, attended Friends’ Central School at Philadelphia, and the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Philadelphia and Montgomery counties bar. He married, October 5, 1892, Louisa Lydia Lippincott, daughter of Samuel R. and Hannah (Haines) Lippincott, and resides at Ambler. Their children are: Thomas Albert, born September 23, 1893; Hannah, born December 11, 1896; and Edward, born February 21, 1903. (For further information see “Foulke Record, History of Gwynedd,” also “Foulke Genealogy.”)