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the practice of law in 1885. In 1893 he was a member of the Indiana state house of representatives. In 1894-1906 he was judge of the superior court of Vanderburg county, Ind. In 1905-09 he was a representative from Indiana to the sixtieth congress. Foster,

John McGaw, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1860, in Bangor, Maine. In 1886-98 he was rector of St. John's

1839-40, 1846-48 and 1854; and was speaker of the house. In 1853-67 he was United States senator. In 1869 he was elected professor of law in Yale college; and in 1870 to a seat on the bench of the supreme court of Connecticut. He died Sept. 19, 1880, in Norwich, Conn. Foster, Joseph, naval olEcer, author, was born June 17, 1841, in Gloucester, Mass. In 1862 he entered the service as captain's in

church of Bangor, Maine; and since 1898 has been rector of the church of the messiah of Boston, Mass. He is the author of

clerk.

mountains and was employed to investi;

gate coalfields and copper-mines. In 1869 he was chosen president of the American association for the advancement of science; and later became president of the Chicago academy of sciences. He was the author of The Mississippi Valley, its physical geography, topography, geology, botany, etc., and its progress of material wealth; and The Prehistoric Races of America. He died June 39, 1873, in Hyde Park, 111. Foster, John Watson, lawyer, diplomat, cabinet officer, was born March 3, 1836, in Petersburg, Ind. He served in the union army throughout the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. In 1869 he was appointed postmaster at Evansville; and in 1873 was appointed United States minister to Mexico. In 1880 he was transferred to St. Petersburg as minister to Russia; and in 1883 was appointed United States minister to Spain. In 1893-93 he was secretary of state; and has since filled important official

He positions. ington, D.C.

now

practices law in

Wash-

Foster, Mrs. Judith Ellen, lawyer, author, 3, 1S40, in Lowell, Mass. She is a lawyer and prominent temperance advocate of Iowa. She is the author of The Crime Against Ireland; Amendment Manual; The American Renaissance; and Re-

was born Nov.

publican

Contentions

and Supreme

Court

Decisions.

Foster, La Fayette Sabiae, lawyer, jurist,. United States senator, was born Nov. 33, 1806, in Franklin, Conn. He was a member of the general assembly of Connecticut

was

at-

paymaster; advanced was and through all grades to

academy; and at the Wesleyan university

S

He

tached to the steamer Augusta in 1868-65; and was present at several serious naval In 1863 he attacks. was appointed acting

The White Stone. Foster, John W., lawyer, author, was born March 4, 1815, in Petersham, Mass. He was educated in the common schools; at an at Middletown, Conn. He studied law at Zanesville, Ohio; and was admitted to practice. He was at one time a member of the state legislature of ilassaehusetts. He duly discovered the great zinc veins of the Ozark

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that of pay director in 1901. In 1903, after forty years of service, he was retired at his own request with the rank of rear admiral. He is the author of The Graves We Decorate; and other works. Foster, Luther, soldier, educator, college president, was born Oct. 5, 1849, in Whitehall, Ind. In 1864-65 he served in the third Iowa cavalry. In 1873-85 he was superintendent of schools; and since 1901 has been president of the New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanical arts. Foster, Mabel Grace, lecturer, author, was born Sept. 38, 1869, in Boston, Mass. She is a lecturer on art, history and Italian literature. She is the author of The Heart of the Doctor. Foster, Martin D., physician, congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1861, in West Salem, 111. He was educated in Eureka college at Eureka, 111.; at the eclectic medical institute at Cincinnati, Ohio; and at the Hahnemann medical college at Chicago, 111. In 1882 he began the practice of medicine in

In 1895 and 1903 he was mayor He was elected surgeon of a regiment in the Spanish-American war, but was never called into service. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Illinois to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat. Foster, Murphy James, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, United States senator, was bom Jan. 13, 1849, in Franklin, La. In 1880-92 he was a member of the Louisiana state senate. In 1893-1900 he was the twenty-fifth governor of Louisiana, after Olney, 111. of Olney,

111.

the most memorable campaign ever known. He became an associate justice on the supreme bench. In 1901-03 he was a representative to the fifty-seventh congress. In 1901 he became a member of the United States senate; and is now serving his second

term ending Foster,

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in 1913.

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born in Owego, N.Y.

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president,

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