JOHN JACOB FOULKROD.

FOULKROD, John Jacob, lawyer, was born in Philadelphia, June 6, 1876, son of John Jacob and Anna Hoskin (Krewson) Foulkrod; grandson of Levi and Jane (Barnhurst) Foulkrod; great grandson of John and Mahala (Lukens) Foulkrod; great-great-grandson of Jacob, a soldier in the American Revolution and Mary (Bandeman) Foulkrod, and great-great-great-grandson of George Foulkrod, who came from England prior to 1760 and settled in Pennsylvania. His father was a banker. John J. Foulkrod, Jr., attended the William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Ph. B. degree in 1897 and an LL. B. degree in 1900. In the latter year he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in 1901 as a member of the firm of Adams, Foulkrod & Mc Cullagh in Philadelphia. In 1905 the firm became Foulkrod & Mc Cullagh, in 1907 Porter, Foulkrod & Mc Cullagh, in 1928 Foulkrod, Sheppard, Porter & Alexander and in 1941 Foulkrod, Porter & Wadlinger, the firm with which he was practicing at the time of his death. He made a specialty of corporation, estate, banking and tax matters. Besides his law work, Foulkrod was a director of the National Sugar Refining Co. and the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co. Active in welfare work, he was a member of the board of managers of the Roxborough (Philadelphia) Home for Women and a director of the Memorial Hospital Roxborough. He was a member of the American, Pennsylvania State and Philadelphia bar associations, the Union League of Philadelphia, Delta Upsilon and the Philadelphia Country Club. Golf was his favorite recreation. His religious affiliation was with the Leverington Presbyterian Church, Roxborough, of which he was president of the board of trustees for forty-five years. In politics he was a Republican. Foulkrod was married in Philadelphia, Oct. 8, 1901, to Jean Foster, daughter of William Johnston of that city, a manufacturer, and had two children: Isabel Johnston who married William Dusenbery Sherrerd, Jr., and John Jacob Foulkrod. He died in Merion, Pa., Nov. 18, 1947.

Jacqueline H. Ross-Foulkrod (68 Cornell Dr., Hazlet, NJ 07730);
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 36, pp. 225-226)