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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Foster, Charles, merchant, congressman, governor, cabinet oflftcer, was born April 12, 1828, near Tiffin, Ohio. He was taken by father to what is now Fostoria, Ohio, then a wilderness. In 1871-79 he was a representative the to forty-second, fortythird, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses from Ohio. In 1880S4 he was the thirtyhis

governor of In 1891-93 he was secretary of the treasury. He died Jan.

second Ohio.

1904, in Springfield, Ohio. Foster, Charles Hubbs, actor, author, was born in 1833 in New York. He was an actor and playwright of New York City. He wrote more than seventy-five plays, mostly melodramas, among them are Twins of London; 9,

Twenty Years Dead; and The Chain Gang. He died Aug. 6, 1895, in New York City. Foster, Charles James, journalist, was

He wrote 24, 1820, in England. for The Spirit of the Times, and in 1876 He established the New Y'ork Sportsman. was considered to be the best informed man in the country on the subject of racing. He died Sept. 12, 1883, in Astoria, N.Y. born Nov.

Foster, David Johnson, lawyer, state senacongressman, was born June 27, 1857, In 1886-90 he was state's in Barnet, Vt. attorney of Chittenden county, Vt. In 189294 he was state senator; and in 1901-11 he was a representative from Vermont to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses. tor,

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Foster, Frank Hugh, clergyman, theologian, author, was born June 18, 1851, in Since 1877 he has been Springfield, Mass. ,^

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church of Olivet, Mich. Since 1907 he has been professor of lege

history at Olivet college. He is the author

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Edna AbigaU, journalist, author, in Sullivan Harbor, Maine. _ Since 1901 she has been editor of the children's page in the Youth's Companion of Boston,

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Foster, Dwight, lawyer, jurist, congress-

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Wells, physician, author, He was the author of Man in the Earth World and in the Spirit World; and Ye Pilgrims. He died in 1901. Foster, Mrs. Ellen Horton, lawyer, temperance advocate, was bom Nov. 3, 1840, in Lowell, Mass. Since 1875 she has been a successful leader in the temperance cause; and has lectured in almost every state and territory of the union. She has also been counsel for the woman's christian temperance union of the United States. Foster, Enoch, soldier, lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born May 10, 1839, in Newry, Maine. During the civil war he attained the rank of first lieutenant in the thirteenth Maine regiment. In 1868-74 he was county attorney; and in 1874-75 was a member of the Maine state senate. In 188498 he was an associate justice of the state supreme court of Maine. Foster, Ephraim H., United States senator, was born about 1795. He was speaker of the house of representatives of Tennessee in 1820; in 1837-39 and 1843-45 he was United States senator. He died Sept. 4, 1854, in Nashville, Tenn. Foster, Ernest Le Neve, geologist, mining engineer, was born Jan. 23, 1849, in London, England. Since 1872 he has practiced mining engineering in Colorado. In 1883-84 he was state geologist of Colorado. He has been president of the Colorado scientific Foster,

was born

Foster, David Skaats, merchant, author, poet, was born in 1862 in Utica, N.Y. He is the author of Eebecca the Witch and Other Tales in Metre; the Romance of the Unexpected; Spanish Castles by the Rhine; Triptychal Yarn; Casanova the Courier; Prince Timoteo; and Tales of Our Land.

1757, in Brookfield, Mass. He was county sheriff and judge; afterwards chief justice of common pleas; and for some years was a member of the house and senate of Massachusetts. He was a member of the executive council of Massachusetts; and in 1793-99 was a representative to the third, fourth, fifth and sixth congresses; and in 1799-1803 he was United States senator. He died April 29, 1823, in Brookfield, Mass. In 1866Foster, Dwight, lawyer, jurist. 69 he was an associate justice of the state supreme court of Massachusetts. He died

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Seminary Method Study in the Historical Sciences; Fundamental Ideas of the Roman Catholic Church; Christian Life and Theology; and Genetic History of the New England Theology. Foster, Frank Keyes, printer, lecturer, auof of

was born Deo. 19, 1854, in Palmer, Since 1886 he has been editor and publisher of the Liberator of Boston, Mass. In 1886 he was the democratic nominee for lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts. He is the author of Evolution of a Trade Unionist; and The Karma of Labor, in verse. Foster, George Everett, journalist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1849, in Milford, N.H. He was educated at Cornell university; and thor, poet,

Mass.