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Kane-Foulke family papers

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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).

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.

The collection was donated to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Mrs. E. Paul (Jean Kane Foulke) duPont on 28 July 1978. It was processed and catalogued in 1990.

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Frazer, Edmund B., Secretary of the Board of Health of the State of Delaware. Autograph letter signed, Wilmington, Del., to Mrs. John K. Kane, Wilmington, Del., 17 June 1886.
Newsclippings concerning controversy between George Rhyfedd Foulke and J. Cheston Morris over tuberculous milk, 1894.
Wood, Emlen. Typed letter signed, Philadelphia, Pa., to Mrs. Jean Kane Foulke, 8 August 1932.

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