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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:32:17 EDT

A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

JOHN J. FOARDE, one of the successful and popular younger members of the bar
of Blackhawk County, is established in the practice of his profession in the
City of Waterloo, the county seat, with office in the First National Bank
Building, on East Fourth Street.
Mr. Foarde, who represented his native state in World war service, was born
at Anamosa, Jones County, Iowa, August 23, 1893, and is one of the ten
children born to Thomas and Margaret M. (Foley) Foarde. The father died March 5,
1930, he having there established his residence in Anamosa when he was a youth
of twenty years and having been successfully established in business as a
blacksmith during the course of many years. The mother still lives at Anamosa,
at the age of seventy-eight. Thomas Foarde was born at Rathbride, County
Kildare, Ireland, and was one of a large family of children, his parents, James
and Margaret (Behan) Foarde, having passed their entire lives in Ireland and
four of their sons, James, Thomas, Joseph and Patrick, having become citizens
of the United States. In his native land Thomas Foarde learned the trade of
blacksmith, he having served his apprenticeship at a British army post. He was
twenty years of age when he came to the United States and established his
residence at Anamosa, where he maintained his home during the long intervening
years and where he was a substantial and highly esteemed citizen, both he and
his wife being devout communicants of the Catholic Church. Mrs. Foarde was
born in Piqua, Ohio, February 6, 1853, and is a daughter of Thomas and Mary
(Kelley) Foley, who were natives of Ireland and who came from Ohio and
numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Jones County, Iowa, where they
passed the remainder of their lives on the old home farm that they developed
from the virgin prairie.

John J. Foarde was graduated in the high school at Anamosa and then entered
the University of Iowa, where he continued his studies in the college of
liberal arts until shortly before the normal time of his graduation, there having
come to him a higher duty when the nation entered the World war and he
having made prompt response to the call of patriotism. On the 14th of May, 1917,
he enlisted in the United States army, and while he was stationed at Fort
Snelling, Minnesota, the University of Iowa conferred upon him his degree of
Bachelor of Arts. He first won commission as second lieutenant and in July,
1918, he was advanced to the rank of first lieutenant. He was stationed at Camp
Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, when the armistice brought the war to a close, and
he received his honorable discharge in december, 1918. Thereafter he
continued his studies in the law department of the University of Iowa until he
received therefrom, in 1920, the degree of Bachelor of Laws, with virtually
concomitant admission to the bar of his native state. He has since been engaged in
the practice of his profession in Waterloo, and the passing years have
brought to him cumulative success and prestige, that success having been resultant
upon his professional ability and his inviolable hold upon popular confidence
and esteem. He has membership in the Blackhawk County Bar Association and
the Iowa State Bar Association, is a Republican in political alignment, he and
his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church of the Scared Heart, and in
his native City of Anamosa he still retains affiliation with Waterloo
Council No. 791 of the Knights of Columbus. He is also a member of the Lions Club.

On the 30th of August, 1922, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Foarde to
Miss Eve H. Mackin, who was born on the parental home farm near Aurora,
Buchanan County, and who is a daughter of James E. and Mary (Cavanaugh) Mackin, who
were natives of Iowa and whose parents were pioneer settlers of Buchanan
County, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Foarde have two children, John J., Jr., born February
18, 1924, and Patricia Ann, born October 28, 1925.


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