The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Center Township, page 516
Charles Foley was born in Indianapolis, Jan. 3, 1835, on the lot where the Journal building now stands. He is a son of Moses and Mary Ann Foley, the latter being a sister of the late Hugh O'Neal, who was at one time a most eminent attorney of Indianapolis. In 1843 his father sold the lot on which the building stands to the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church, and moved to a farm near Crown Hill Cemetery, where he grew to manhood and where his father died in 1870. Mr. Foley spent the four years immediately before the Rebellion surveying in the State of Missouri. He read law in the office of the late Judge Newcomb & Tarkington, of Indianapolis, and in May, 1863, he commenced the practice of law in Danville, where he has been continuously engaged ever since, except during 100-days service in the army of the United States in the summer of 1864. He is engaged in the general practice of law. He was married Jan. 31, 1867, to Eliza Ann Leach, of Pittsboro, Hendricks County. One child has been born to them, named Bruce Foley after the family of George Bruce, near Indianapolis. He was born Oct. 2, 1876. Mr. Foley is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is not a member of any church. He has never sought political favors.