HON. W. D. FOULKE was born in New York City, Nov. 20, 1848, a son of Thomas and Hannah S. Foulke.
He attended the public schools of New York, and subsequently entered the Friends' Seminary in New York, from which he graduated. In 1869 he graduated from the academical department of Columbia College, and two years later from the law department. He then, in 1871, began the practice of his profession in New York City.
In 1876 he came to Richmond and formed a partnership with Hon. Jesse P. Siddall under the firm name of Siddall & Foulke. On the retirement of Mr. Siddall, Mr. Foulke became associated with Hon. John L. Rupe, the firm name being Foulke & Rupe.
In 1880 he became actively engaged in the Presidential campaign, with Governor Porter, General Logan and others, and in 1882 was elected on the Republican ticket State Senator from Wayne County. He is an active worker in the woman's suffrage movement.
Mr. Foulke is by birthright a member of the Hicksite Friends, his father being a minister of that society. Oct. 10, 1872, while in Paris, France, he was married to Mary T.. daughter of Mark E. and Carolina M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind. They have a family of four children - Carrie R., Lydia H., Mary T. R. and Arthur Dudley.
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Hon. William Dudley Foulke was admitted to the Wayne County Bar in 1875. His early education was obtained chiefly in the public schools of New York City and at the Friends' Seminary. Graduating at Columbia College, N. Y., in 1869, he entered the law school of the same college and graduated in it in 1871.
In the political field his services have not been without distinction. In 1882 he was elected to the Indiana State senate from Wayne county and served for four years, being retired, in 1886, upon his refusal to support James G. Blaine.
In his practice at the bar of this county Mr. Foulke has been associated with Jesse P. Siddall and John L. Rupe. His services in behalf of Civil Service Reform have won for him a wide reputation. As an author, his works - "Slav and Saxon" and "Life of Oliver P. Morton" - have attracted much attention and favorable comment, as stated elsewhere.
Los Angeles, Cal. - William Dudley Foulke, lawyer, writer, journalist, and one of the leading citizens of the State of Indiana, was born at No. 76, Rivington street, New York City, Nov. 20, 1848, a son of Thomas and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
He is a descendant of Edward Foulke, who emigrated from North Wales in 1698 and was among the colonists brought by William Penn to America, settling at Gwynodd, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
The ancestry of Edward Foulke was set forth in one of those long and luxuriant pedigrees so common in Welsh genealogies and afterward formed the subject of a satire by Mr. Foulke, entitled "The Economical Acquisition of Royal Ancestry," which appeared in his "Protean Papers," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, in 1903.
Mr. Foulke's father and grandfather (Joseph Foulke) - were both ministers in the Society of Friends. His father, Thomas Foulke, was for a long time principal of Grammar School No. 45, then the largest school in New York City, and to that school the boy was sent for his education; but owing to ill health his attendance was intermittent, and his early education was acquired mostly at home.
When his father afterwards became principal of Friends' Seminary at Rutherford Place, New York City, Mr. Foulke attended school there for some years, and then, after a few months' preparation under a private tutor, he entered Columbia College, in the fall of 1865, graduating in 1869, at the head of his class and delivering the Greek Salutatory.
A year later he was admitted to the bar in New York, and in 1871 graduated at Columbia College Law School, commencing the practice of the law in New York City, in partnership with Frank Molocsay.
In October, 1872, he was married to Mary Taylor Reeves, daughter of Mark E. and Caroline M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind.
He continued the practice of the law in New York until 1876, when he removed to Richmond and formed a partnership with Jesse P. Siddall, one of the solicitors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, and he remained for fifteen years one of the attorneys of this company, as well as being engaged in general practice.
In 1882 he was elected upon the Republican ticket as a member of the Indiana State Senate from Wayne county and served four years. During his term he refused to support Mr. Blaine for the Presidency.
He became interested in the reform of the civil service and introduced a bill to establish this reform in Indiana, but public opinion was not yet ripe for the matter and it failed by a close vote to pass the Senate. He subsequently became president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform Association and conducted a series of investigations into the management of the State Insane Hospital, which resulted in revealing many abuses, including fraudulent contracts and the ill treatment of patients, due to the spoils system under the partisan management of that institution. This investigation and the publicity given to it had considerable influence in the election of 1886, as well as in the Presidential campaign of 1888, in which Benjamin Harrison was elected.
In 1889-90, during Mr. Harrison's term, Mr. Foulke was the chairman of a special committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, consisting of Charles J. Bonaparte, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Wayne MacVeagh, and Sherman S. Rogers, which conducted a series of investigations into the condition of the Federal civil service, embracing the subjects of Congressional patronage, the administration of the Patent Office and Census Bureau, political changes in the Postoffice Department, removal of office-holders upon secret charges, and other matters, and severe strictures were made upon the administration of President Harrison. It was while he was conducting this investigation that a friendship began between Mr. Roosevelt, who was then Civil Service Commissioner, and Mr. Foulke, and which has continued uninterruptedly since that time.
Mr. Foulke was also for many years president of the American Woman Suffrage Association, until its union with the National Woman Suffrage Association, in 1890. In that year he retired from the general prac tice of the law.
In 1891 he was elected president of Swarthmore College, but was unable to accept the position, owing to the sudden death of his brother-in-law, Arthur M. Reeves, which cast certain business responsibilities upon him and made a removal to the East impossible.
Four years before this time he wrote "Slav or Saxon," a monograph, describing the growth of Russian civilization and its rivalry to the civilization of English speaking peoples. A second edition of this work, including an account of subsequent Russian aggressions, was published in 1898, and a third edition, subsequent to the war between China and Japan, was published in 1904 (G. P. Putnam's Sons).
In 1899 he published in two volumes a biography of Oliver P. Morton, the war governor of Indiana (Bobbs-Merrill Co., of Indianapolis), which is in fact a history of Indiana during the period of the Civil war, as well as a record of the subsequent career of Mr. Morton in the United States Senate.
He was acting chairman of the Congress on Suffrage in the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition in 1893, and in that year became president of the American Proportional Representation League.
Mr. Foulke has devoted a considerable portion of his time to foreign travel in all the countries of Europe, in Cuba, Mexico, Yucatan, etc., and in 1900 published "Maya, a Story of Yucatan," being a romance of the period of the Spanish Conquest, the scene of which was laid in Uxmal and other places in that peninsula.
Mr. Foulke has also taken an active part in every political campaign since 1876, and another book, issued by him in 1903, entitled "Protean Papers," is a collection of miscellaneous essays, the first one, "Spell-binders," enumerating the characteristic and amusing scenes in the career of a political campaigner.
Other articles describe "Mountaineering in Mexico," "The Frailties of Literary Criticism," "The Disadvantages of a University Education," and other subjects. Mr. Foulke has also been an occasional contributor to various magazines.
When Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, in 1901, one of his first appointments was that of Mr. Foulke to the National Civil Service Commission, and as such he served until 1903, most of the time as the colleague of John R. Proctor and James R. Garfield. He resigned, owing to ill health. and has since devoted much of his time to travel in Italy, Germany, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, etc.
In 1906 he wrote the first English translation of the "History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon," with elaborate historical and critical notes. This work was issued by the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a contributor to the American Historical Magazine.
In 1906, Earlham College, in his home city, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
In November, 1910, he succeeded Charles J. Bonaparte as president of the National Municipal League, and in the same year wrote "The Quaker Boy," a tale of the outgoing generation, as it appears chronicled in the autobiography of Robert Barclay Dillingham, and which appeared a year later under the title, "Dorothy Day" (Cosmopolitan Press, 1911).
In the same year, 1911, "Maya," a lyrical drama, was issued by the same Press, being a dramatization of Mr. Foulke's romance of the same title. He has also delivered numerous addresses on political and sociological subjects in various parts of the country. In 1911 he was re-elected President of the National Municipal League.
In politics he is a progressive Republican. He has been, since June, 1909, one of the editors, as well as the principal proprietor, of the "Evening Item," an independent newspaper, published in Richmond. At an earlier period, in 1883, he was for a short time one of the editors of the "Palladium," another Richmond paper.
He attended the public schools of New York, and subsequently entered the Friends' Seminary in New York, from which he graduated. In 1869 he graduated from the academical department of Columbia College, and two years later from the law department. He then, in 1871, began the practice of his profession in New York City.
In 1876 he came to Richmond and formed a partnership with Hon. Jesse P. Siddall under the firm name of Siddall & Foulke. On the retirement of Mr. Siddall, Mr. Foulke became associated with Hon. John L. Rupe, the firm name being Foulke & Rupe.
In 1880 he became actively engaged in the Presidential campaign, with Governor Porter, General Logan and others, and in 1882 was elected on the Republican ticket State Senator from Wayne County. He is an active worker in the woman's suffrage movement.
Mr. Foulke is by birthright a member of the Hicksite Friends, his father being a minister of that society. Oct. 10, 1872, while in Paris, France, he was married to Mary T.. daughter of Mark E. and Carolina M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind. They have a family of four children - Carrie R., Lydia H., Mary T. R. and Arthur Dudley.
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Hon. William Dudley Foulke was admitted to the Wayne County Bar in 1875. His early education was obtained chiefly in the public schools of New York City and at the Friends' Seminary. Graduating at Columbia College, N. Y., in 1869, he entered the law school of the same college and graduated in it in 1871.
In the political field his services have not been without distinction. In 1882 he was elected to the Indiana State senate from Wayne county and served for four years, being retired, in 1886, upon his refusal to support James G. Blaine.
In his practice at the bar of this county Mr. Foulke has been associated with Jesse P. Siddall and John L. Rupe. His services in behalf of Civil Service Reform have won for him a wide reputation. As an author, his works - "Slav and Saxon" and "Life of Oliver P. Morton" - have attracted much attention and favorable comment, as stated elsewhere.
Los Angeles, Cal. - William Dudley Foulke, lawyer, writer, journalist, and one of the leading citizens of the State of Indiana, was born at No. 76, Rivington street, New York City, Nov. 20, 1848, a son of Thomas and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
He is a descendant of Edward Foulke, who emigrated from North Wales in 1698 and was among the colonists brought by William Penn to America, settling at Gwynodd, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
The ancestry of Edward Foulke was set forth in one of those long and luxuriant pedigrees so common in Welsh genealogies and afterward formed the subject of a satire by Mr. Foulke, entitled "The Economical Acquisition of Royal Ancestry," which appeared in his "Protean Papers," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, in 1903.
Mr. Foulke's father and grandfather (Joseph Foulke) - were both ministers in the Society of Friends. His father, Thomas Foulke, was for a long time principal of Grammar School No. 45, then the largest school in New York City, and to that school the boy was sent for his education; but owing to ill health his attendance was intermittent, and his early education was acquired mostly at home.
When his father afterwards became principal of Friends' Seminary at Rutherford Place, New York City, Mr. Foulke attended school there for some years, and then, after a few months' preparation under a private tutor, he entered Columbia College, in the fall of 1865, graduating in 1869, at the head of his class and delivering the Greek Salutatory.
A year later he was admitted to the bar in New York, and in 1871 graduated at Columbia College Law School, commencing the practice of the law in New York City, in partnership with Frank Molocsay.
In October, 1872, he was married to Mary Taylor Reeves, daughter of Mark E. and Caroline M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind.
He continued the practice of the law in New York until 1876, when he removed to Richmond and formed a partnership with Jesse P. Siddall, one of the solicitors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, and he remained for fifteen years one of the attorneys of this company, as well as being engaged in general practice.
In 1882 he was elected upon the Republican ticket as a member of the Indiana State Senate from Wayne county and served four years. During his term he refused to support Mr. Blaine for the Presidency.
He became interested in the reform of the civil service and introduced a bill to establish this reform in Indiana, but public opinion was not yet ripe for the matter and it failed by a close vote to pass the Senate. He subsequently became president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform Association and conducted a series of investigations into the management of the State Insane Hospital, which resulted in revealing many abuses, including fraudulent contracts and the ill treatment of patients, due to the spoils system under the partisan management of that institution. This investigation and the publicity given to it had considerable influence in the election of 1886, as well as in the Presidential campaign of 1888, in which Benjamin Harrison was elected.
In 1889-90, during Mr. Harrison's term, Mr. Foulke was the chairman of a special committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, consisting of Charles J. Bonaparte, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Wayne MacVeagh, and Sherman S. Rogers, which conducted a series of investigations into the condition of the Federal civil service, embracing the subjects of Congressional patronage, the administration of the Patent Office and Census Bureau, political changes in the Postoffice Department, removal of office-holders upon secret charges, and other matters, and severe strictures were made upon the administration of President Harrison. It was while he was conducting this investigation that a friendship began between Mr. Roosevelt, who was then Civil Service Commissioner, and Mr. Foulke, and which has continued uninterruptedly since that time.
Mr. Foulke was also for many years president of the American Woman Suffrage Association, until its union with the National Woman Suffrage Association, in 1890. In that year he retired from the general prac tice of the law.
In 1891 he was elected president of Swarthmore College, but was unable to accept the position, owing to the sudden death of his brother-in-law, Arthur M. Reeves, which cast certain business responsibilities upon him and made a removal to the East impossible.
Four years before this time he wrote "Slav or Saxon," a monograph, describing the growth of Russian civilization and its rivalry to the civilization of English speaking peoples. A second edition of this work, including an account of subsequent Russian aggressions, was published in 1898, and a third edition, subsequent to the war between China and Japan, was published in 1904 (G. P. Putnam's Sons).
In 1899 he published in two volumes a biography of Oliver P. Morton, the war governor of Indiana (Bobbs-Merrill Co., of Indianapolis), which is in fact a history of Indiana during the period of the Civil war, as well as a record of the subsequent career of Mr. Morton in the United States Senate.
He was acting chairman of the Congress on Suffrage in the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition in 1893, and in that year became president of the American Proportional Representation League.
Mr. Foulke has devoted a considerable portion of his time to foreign travel in all the countries of Europe, in Cuba, Mexico, Yucatan, etc., and in 1900 published "Maya, a Story of Yucatan," being a romance of the period of the Spanish Conquest, the scene of which was laid in Uxmal and other places in that peninsula.
Mr. Foulke has also taken an active part in every political campaign since 1876, and another book, issued by him in 1903, entitled "Protean Papers," is a collection of miscellaneous essays, the first one, "Spell-binders," enumerating the characteristic and amusing scenes in the career of a political campaigner.
Other articles describe "Mountaineering in Mexico," "The Frailties of Literary Criticism," "The Disadvantages of a University Education," and other subjects. Mr. Foulke has also been an occasional contributor to various magazines.
When Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, in 1901, one of his first appointments was that of Mr. Foulke to the National Civil Service Commission, and as such he served until 1903, most of the time as the colleague of John R. Proctor and James R. Garfield. He resigned, owing to ill health. and has since devoted much of his time to travel in Italy, Germany, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, etc.
In 1906 he wrote the first English translation of the "History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon," with elaborate historical and critical notes. This work was issued by the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a contributor to the American Historical Magazine.
In 1906, Earlham College, in his home city, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
In November, 1910, he succeeded Charles J. Bonaparte as president of the National Municipal League, and in the same year wrote "The Quaker Boy," a tale of the outgoing generation, as it appears chronicled in the autobiography of Robert Barclay Dillingham, and which appeared a year later under the title, "Dorothy Day" (Cosmopolitan Press, 1911).
In the same year, 1911, "Maya," a lyrical drama, was issued by the same Press, being a dramatization of Mr. Foulke's romance of the same title. He has also delivered numerous addresses on political and sociological subjects in various parts of the country. In 1911 he was re-elected President of the National Municipal League.
In politics he is a progressive Republican. He has been, since June, 1909, one of the editors, as well as the principal proprietor, of the "Evening Item," an independent newspaper, published in Richmond. At an earlier period, in 1883, he was for a short time one of the editors of the "Palladium," another Richmond paper.
HON. W. D. FOULKE was born in New York City, Nov. 20, 1848, a son of Thomas and Hannah S. Foulke.
He attended the public schools of New York, and subsequently entered the Friends' Seminary in New York, from which he graduated. In 1869 he graduated from the academical department of Columbia College, and two years later from the law department. He then, in 1871, began the practice of his profession in New York City.
In 1876 he came to Richmond and formed a partnership with Hon. Jesse P. Siddall under the firm name of Siddall & Foulke. On the retirement of Mr. Siddall, Mr. Foulke became associated with Hon. John L. Rupe, the firm name being Foulke & Rupe.
In 1880 he became actively engaged in the Presidential campaign, with Governor Porter, General Logan and others, and in 1882 was elected on the Republican ticket State Senator from Wayne County. He is an active worker in the woman's suffrage movement.
Mr. Foulke is by birthright a member of the Hicksite Friends, his father being a minister of that society. Oct. 10, 1872, while in Paris, France, he was married to Mary T.. daughter of Mark E. and Carolina M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind. They have a family of four children - Carrie R., Lydia H., Mary T. R. and Arthur Dudley.
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Hon. William Dudley Foulke was admitted to the Wayne County Bar in 1875. His early education was obtained chiefly in the public schools of New York City and at the Friends' Seminary. Graduating at Columbia College, N. Y., in 1869, he entered the law school of the same college and graduated in it in 1871.
In the political field his services have not been without distinction. In 1882 he was elected to the Indiana State senate from Wayne county and served for four years, being retired, in 1886, upon his refusal to support James G. Blaine.
In his practice at the bar of this county Mr. Foulke has been associated with Jesse P. Siddall and John L. Rupe. His services in behalf of Civil Service Reform have won for him a wide reputation. As an author, his works - "Slav and Saxon" and "Life of Oliver P. Morton" - have attracted much attention and favorable comment, as stated elsewhere.
Los Angeles, Cal. - William Dudley Foulke, lawyer, writer, journalist, and one of the leading citizens of the State of Indiana, was born at No. 76, Rivington street, New York City, Nov. 20, 1848, a son of Thomas and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
He is a descendant of Edward Foulke, who emigrated from North Wales in 1698 and was among the colonists brought by William Penn to America, settling at Gwynodd, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
The ancestry of Edward Foulke was set forth in one of those long and luxuriant pedigrees so common in Welsh genealogies and afterward formed the subject of a satire by Mr. Foulke, entitled "The Economical Acquisition of Royal Ancestry," which appeared in his "Protean Papers," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, in 1903.
Mr. Foulke's father and grandfather (Joseph Foulke) - were both ministers in the Society of Friends. His father, Thomas Foulke, was for a long time principal of Grammar School No. 45, then the largest school in New York City, and to that school the boy was sent for his education; but owing to ill health his attendance was intermittent, and his early education was acquired mostly at home.
When his father afterwards became principal of Friends' Seminary at Rutherford Place, New York City, Mr. Foulke attended school there for some years, and then, after a few months' preparation under a private tutor, he entered Columbia College, in the fall of 1865, graduating in 1869, at the head of his class and delivering the Greek Salutatory.
A year later he was admitted to the bar in New York, and in 1871 graduated at Columbia College Law School, commencing the practice of the law in New York City, in partnership with Frank Molocsay.
In October, 1872, he was married to Mary Taylor Reeves, daughter of Mark E. and Caroline M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind.
He continued the practice of the law in New York until 1876, when he removed to Richmond and formed a partnership with Jesse P. Siddall, one of the solicitors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, and he remained for fifteen years one of the attorneys of this company, as well as being engaged in general practice.
In 1882 he was elected upon the Republican ticket as a member of the Indiana State Senate from Wayne county and served four years. During his term he refused to support Mr. Blaine for the Presidency.
He became interested in the reform of the civil service and introduced a bill to establish this reform in Indiana, but public opinion was not yet ripe for the matter and it failed by a close vote to pass the Senate. He subsequently became president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform Association and conducted a series of investigations into the management of the State Insane Hospital, which resulted in revealing many abuses, including fraudulent contracts and the ill treatment of patients, due to the spoils system under the partisan management of that institution. This investigation and the publicity given to it had considerable influence in the election of 1886, as well as in the Presidential campaign of 1888, in which Benjamin Harrison was elected.
In 1889-90, during Mr. Harrison's term, Mr. Foulke was the chairman of a special committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, consisting of Charles J. Bonaparte, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Wayne MacVeagh, and Sherman S. Rogers, which conducted a series of investigations into the condition of the Federal civil service, embracing the subjects of Congressional patronage, the administration of the Patent Office and Census Bureau, political changes in the Postoffice Department, removal of office-holders upon secret charges, and other matters, and severe strictures were made upon the administration of President Harrison. It was while he was conducting this investigation that a friendship began between Mr. Roosevelt, who was then Civil Service Commissioner, and Mr. Foulke, and which has continued uninterruptedly since that time.
Mr. Foulke was also for many years president of the American Woman Suffrage Association, until its union with the National Woman Suffrage Association, in 1890. In that year he retired from the general prac tice of the law.
In 1891 he was elected president of Swarthmore College, but was unable to accept the position, owing to the sudden death of his brother-in-law, Arthur M. Reeves, which cast certain business responsibilities upon him and made a removal to the East impossible.
Four years before this time he wrote "Slav or Saxon," a monograph, describing the growth of Russian civilization and its rivalry to the civilization of English speaking peoples. A second edition of this work, including an account of subsequent Russian aggressions, was published in 1898, and a third edition, subsequent to the war between China and Japan, was published in 1904 (G. P. Putnam's Sons).
In 1899 he published in two volumes a biography of Oliver P. Morton, the war governor of Indiana (Bobbs-Merrill Co., of Indianapolis), which is in fact a history of Indiana during the period of the Civil war, as well as a record of the subsequent career of Mr. Morton in the United States Senate.
He was acting chairman of the Congress on Suffrage in the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition in 1893, and in that year became president of the American Proportional Representation League.
Mr. Foulke has devoted a considerable portion of his time to foreign travel in all the countries of Europe, in Cuba, Mexico, Yucatan, etc., and in 1900 published "Maya, a Story of Yucatan," being a romance of the period of the Spanish Conquest, the scene of which was laid in Uxmal and other places in that peninsula.
Mr. Foulke has also taken an active part in every political campaign since 1876, and another book, issued by him in 1903, entitled "Protean Papers," is a collection of miscellaneous essays, the first one, "Spell-binders," enumerating the characteristic and amusing scenes in the career of a political campaigner.
Other articles describe "Mountaineering in Mexico," "The Frailties of Literary Criticism," "The Disadvantages of a University Education," and other subjects. Mr. Foulke has also been an occasional contributor to various magazines.
When Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, in 1901, one of his first appointments was that of Mr. Foulke to the National Civil Service Commission, and as such he served until 1903, most of the time as the colleague of John R. Proctor and James R. Garfield. He resigned, owing to ill health. and has since devoted much of his time to travel in Italy, Germany, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, etc.
In 1906 he wrote the first English translation of the "History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon," with elaborate historical and critical notes. This work was issued by the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a contributor to the American Historical Magazine.
In 1906, Earlham College, in his home city, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
In November, 1910, he succeeded Charles J. Bonaparte as president of the National Municipal League, and in the same year wrote "The Quaker Boy," a tale of the outgoing generation, as it appears chronicled in the autobiography of Robert Barclay Dillingham, and which appeared a year later under the title, "Dorothy Day" (Cosmopolitan Press, 1911).
In the same year, 1911, "Maya," a lyrical drama, was issued by the same Press, being a dramatization of Mr. Foulke's romance of the same title. He has also delivered numerous addresses on political and sociological subjects in various parts of the country. In 1911 he was re-elected President of the National Municipal League.
In politics he is a progressive Republican. He has been, since June, 1909, one of the editors, as well as the principal proprietor, of the "Evening Item," an independent newspaper, published in Richmond. At an earlier period, in 1883, he was for a short time one of the editors of the "Palladium," another Richmond paper.
He attended the public schools of New York, and subsequently entered the Friends' Seminary in New York, from which he graduated. In 1869 he graduated from the academical department of Columbia College, and two years later from the law department. He then, in 1871, began the practice of his profession in New York City.
In 1876 he came to Richmond and formed a partnership with Hon. Jesse P. Siddall under the firm name of Siddall & Foulke. On the retirement of Mr. Siddall, Mr. Foulke became associated with Hon. John L. Rupe, the firm name being Foulke & Rupe.
In 1880 he became actively engaged in the Presidential campaign, with Governor Porter, General Logan and others, and in 1882 was elected on the Republican ticket State Senator from Wayne County. He is an active worker in the woman's suffrage movement.
Mr. Foulke is by birthright a member of the Hicksite Friends, his father being a minister of that society. Oct. 10, 1872, while in Paris, France, he was married to Mary T.. daughter of Mark E. and Carolina M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind. They have a family of four children - Carrie R., Lydia H., Mary T. R. and Arthur Dudley.
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Hon. William Dudley Foulke was admitted to the Wayne County Bar in 1875. His early education was obtained chiefly in the public schools of New York City and at the Friends' Seminary. Graduating at Columbia College, N. Y., in 1869, he entered the law school of the same college and graduated in it in 1871.
In the political field his services have not been without distinction. In 1882 he was elected to the Indiana State senate from Wayne county and served for four years, being retired, in 1886, upon his refusal to support James G. Blaine.
In his practice at the bar of this county Mr. Foulke has been associated with Jesse P. Siddall and John L. Rupe. His services in behalf of Civil Service Reform have won for him a wide reputation. As an author, his works - "Slav and Saxon" and "Life of Oliver P. Morton" - have attracted much attention and favorable comment, as stated elsewhere.
Los Angeles, Cal. - William Dudley Foulke, lawyer, writer, journalist, and one of the leading citizens of the State of Indiana, was born at No. 76, Rivington street, New York City, Nov. 20, 1848, a son of Thomas and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
He is a descendant of Edward Foulke, who emigrated from North Wales in 1698 and was among the colonists brought by William Penn to America, settling at Gwynodd, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
The ancestry of Edward Foulke was set forth in one of those long and luxuriant pedigrees so common in Welsh genealogies and afterward formed the subject of a satire by Mr. Foulke, entitled "The Economical Acquisition of Royal Ancestry," which appeared in his "Protean Papers," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, in 1903.
Mr. Foulke's father and grandfather (Joseph Foulke) - were both ministers in the Society of Friends. His father, Thomas Foulke, was for a long time principal of Grammar School No. 45, then the largest school in New York City, and to that school the boy was sent for his education; but owing to ill health his attendance was intermittent, and his early education was acquired mostly at home.
When his father afterwards became principal of Friends' Seminary at Rutherford Place, New York City, Mr. Foulke attended school there for some years, and then, after a few months' preparation under a private tutor, he entered Columbia College, in the fall of 1865, graduating in 1869, at the head of his class and delivering the Greek Salutatory.
A year later he was admitted to the bar in New York, and in 1871 graduated at Columbia College Law School, commencing the practice of the law in New York City, in partnership with Frank Molocsay.
In October, 1872, he was married to Mary Taylor Reeves, daughter of Mark E. and Caroline M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind.
He continued the practice of the law in New York until 1876, when he removed to Richmond and formed a partnership with Jesse P. Siddall, one of the solicitors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, and he remained for fifteen years one of the attorneys of this company, as well as being engaged in general practice.
In 1882 he was elected upon the Republican ticket as a member of the Indiana State Senate from Wayne county and served four years. During his term he refused to support Mr. Blaine for the Presidency.
He became interested in the reform of the civil service and introduced a bill to establish this reform in Indiana, but public opinion was not yet ripe for the matter and it failed by a close vote to pass the Senate. He subsequently became president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform Association and conducted a series of investigations into the management of the State Insane Hospital, which resulted in revealing many abuses, including fraudulent contracts and the ill treatment of patients, due to the spoils system under the partisan management of that institution. This investigation and the publicity given to it had considerable influence in the election of 1886, as well as in the Presidential campaign of 1888, in which Benjamin Harrison was elected.
In 1889-90, during Mr. Harrison's term, Mr. Foulke was the chairman of a special committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, consisting of Charles J. Bonaparte, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Wayne MacVeagh, and Sherman S. Rogers, which conducted a series of investigations into the condition of the Federal civil service, embracing the subjects of Congressional patronage, the administration of the Patent Office and Census Bureau, political changes in the Postoffice Department, removal of office-holders upon secret charges, and other matters, and severe strictures were made upon the administration of President Harrison. It was while he was conducting this investigation that a friendship began between Mr. Roosevelt, who was then Civil Service Commissioner, and Mr. Foulke, and which has continued uninterruptedly since that time.
Mr. Foulke was also for many years president of the American Woman Suffrage Association, until its union with the National Woman Suffrage Association, in 1890. In that year he retired from the general prac tice of the law.
In 1891 he was elected president of Swarthmore College, but was unable to accept the position, owing to the sudden death of his brother-in-law, Arthur M. Reeves, which cast certain business responsibilities upon him and made a removal to the East impossible.
Four years before this time he wrote "Slav or Saxon," a monograph, describing the growth of Russian civilization and its rivalry to the civilization of English speaking peoples. A second edition of this work, including an account of subsequent Russian aggressions, was published in 1898, and a third edition, subsequent to the war between China and Japan, was published in 1904 (G. P. Putnam's Sons).
In 1899 he published in two volumes a biography of Oliver P. Morton, the war governor of Indiana (Bobbs-Merrill Co., of Indianapolis), which is in fact a history of Indiana during the period of the Civil war, as well as a record of the subsequent career of Mr. Morton in the United States Senate.
He was acting chairman of the Congress on Suffrage in the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition in 1893, and in that year became president of the American Proportional Representation League.
Mr. Foulke has devoted a considerable portion of his time to foreign travel in all the countries of Europe, in Cuba, Mexico, Yucatan, etc., and in 1900 published "Maya, a Story of Yucatan," being a romance of the period of the Spanish Conquest, the scene of which was laid in Uxmal and other places in that peninsula.
Mr. Foulke has also taken an active part in every political campaign since 1876, and another book, issued by him in 1903, entitled "Protean Papers," is a collection of miscellaneous essays, the first one, "Spell-binders," enumerating the characteristic and amusing scenes in the career of a political campaigner.
Other articles describe "Mountaineering in Mexico," "The Frailties of Literary Criticism," "The Disadvantages of a University Education," and other subjects. Mr. Foulke has also been an occasional contributor to various magazines.
When Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, in 1901, one of his first appointments was that of Mr. Foulke to the National Civil Service Commission, and as such he served until 1903, most of the time as the colleague of John R. Proctor and James R. Garfield. He resigned, owing to ill health. and has since devoted much of his time to travel in Italy, Germany, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, etc.
In 1906 he wrote the first English translation of the "History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon," with elaborate historical and critical notes. This work was issued by the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a contributor to the American Historical Magazine.
In 1906, Earlham College, in his home city, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
In November, 1910, he succeeded Charles J. Bonaparte as president of the National Municipal League, and in the same year wrote "The Quaker Boy," a tale of the outgoing generation, as it appears chronicled in the autobiography of Robert Barclay Dillingham, and which appeared a year later under the title, "Dorothy Day" (Cosmopolitan Press, 1911).
In the same year, 1911, "Maya," a lyrical drama, was issued by the same Press, being a dramatization of Mr. Foulke's romance of the same title. He has also delivered numerous addresses on political and sociological subjects in various parts of the country. In 1911 he was re-elected President of the National Municipal League.
In politics he is a progressive Republican. He has been, since June, 1909, one of the editors, as well as the principal proprietor, of the "Evening Item," an independent newspaper, published in Richmond. At an earlier period, in 1883, he was for a short time one of the editors of the "Palladium," another Richmond paper.
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