J. Foster Wilkin

James Foster Wilkin (February 26, 1853–December 4, 1914) was a lawyer in the U.S. State of Ohio who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge from 1912 to his death.
Biography
J. Foster Wilkin was born in 1853 at Hollidays Cove Virginia (now West Virginia). His parents moved to Newcomerstown, Ohio where he attended the local schools. He studied at Washington & Jefferson College and the College of Wooster. At Washington & 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.
An election was held autumn 1912 to fill the unexpired term of James Latimer Price to the Ohio Supreme...