Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Francis B. Foley, was an American ferrous metallurgist. Foley was born July 7, 1887 in Philadelphia. His father, Dennis Foley, died in 1889 in Dakota Territory, leaving a wife, daughter, and three sons. Francis was enrolled in Girard College, a free boarding school, at that time limited to fatherless white boys, from which he graduated in 1904, after completing a high school education. He worked for a year in the art department of the Philadelphia North American, a daily morning newspaper.