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Kane-Foulke family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/108

Scope and Contents

This small collection of letters and printed material, 1886-1932, concerning members of the Kane and Foulke families contains a memorial resolution on John K. Kane by the Board of Health of the State of Delaware, 1886; newsclippings, 1894, which document a controversy between J. Cheston Morris and George Rhyfedd Foulke over tuberculosis in cattle; and a letter, 8 August 1932, from Emlen Wood, Acting Librarian of the College of... Physicians of Philadelphia, to Mrs. George Rhyfedd Foulke, soliciting books, manuscripts, and relics of physicians John Foulke and John K. Kane. See more

Dates

  • 1886 - 1932

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Mrs. E. Paul (Jean Kane Foulke) duPont of Montchanin, Delaware, was the daughter of George Rhyfedd and Jean Kane Foulke. Her mother was the daughter of John K. Kane (18331886). George Rhyfedd Foulke was a descendant of John Foulke (1757-1796).

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

English

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