J. Foster Wilkin

James Foster Wilkin was a lawyer in the U.S. State of Ohio who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge from 1912 to his death.

J. Foster Wilkin was born in 1853 at Hollidays Cove Virginia . His parents moved to Newcomerstown, Ohio where he attended the local schools. He studied at Washington amp Jefferson College and the College of Wooster. At Washington amp Jefferson he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi. He studied law at the University of Virginia, and had a thirty five year practice at New Philadelphia, Ohio. He married Virginia Smith of Newcomerstown, Ohio, who died in 1919. Wilkin was associated with two of his sons in private practice, David R. and Robert Nugen Wilkin, under the name Wilkin and Wilkin. He was elected Tuscarawas County Prosecuting Attorney in 1882, 1884 and 1886.

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