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Foster, Abby Kelley

reformer, abolitionist, was born Jan. 15, 1811, in Pelham, Mass. She was a noted reformer, and an ardent abolitionist. She died Jan. 14, 1887, in Worcester, Mass.

Foster, Abiel

clergyman, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1735, in Andover, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1789 to 1791; and was again a representative in the legislature. He was a member of the state senate from 1793 to 1794, and in both years was president of that body. He was again elected to congress from 1795 to 1803. He died Feb. 6, 1806, in Canterbury, N. H.

Foster, Benjamin

clergyman, was born June 12, 1750, in Danvers, Mass. He was an accomplished scholar, particularly in the Greek, Hebrew and the Chaldean languages, and was eminent as a preach- He died Aug. 26, 1798, in New York er. city.

Foster, Cassius G

soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 22, 1837, in Webster, N. Y. During 1863-64 he was a member of the Kansas state legislature; mayor of Atchison in 1867; and was commissioned United States district judge for the district of Kansas in 1874, which position he still retains, with headquarters at Topeka.

Foster, Charles Hubbs

actor, author, was born in 1833, in New York.

He was an actor and playwright of New York city, who wrote more than seventyfive plays, mostly melodramas, among which are: Twins of London; Twenty Years Dead; and The Chain Gang. He died in 1895.

Foster, Charles James

journalist, was born Nov. 24, 1820, in England.

He wrote for The Spirit of the Times, and in 1876 established the New York Sportsman, in New York city. He died Sept. 12, 1883, in Astoria, N. Y.

Foster, David Skaats

author, poet. He is the author of Rebecca the Witch, and Other Tales in Metre, first is- Spanish Castles by the Rhine; and a sued as The Romance of the Unexpected; Triptychal Yarn.

Foster, Ephraim H

United States senator, was born about 1795. He was speaker of the house of representatives of Tennessee in 1820; in 1837 was elected to the United States senate, but in 1839 resigned his seat because he could not obey the instructions of the state legislature.

In 1843 he was re-elected for two years; on his return from Washington was a candidate for governor, but failed of an election. He died Sept. 4, 1854, in Nashville, Tenn.

Foster, Eugene

physician, was born April 7, 1850, in Augusta, Ga. He has become one of the most prominent physicians in his state at Augusta.

Foster, Fountain Heath

lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 20, 1847, in Salem, Ill. He has attained success as an eminent lawyer of Arkansas. He has been mayor of Bentonville; judge of Benton county; and judge of the probate court of Benton county, Ark.

Foster, Henry Allen

jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born May 7, 1800, in Hartford, Conn. He served in the senate of that state from 1831 to 1834, and from 1841 to 1844. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839; and was a senator in congress during the years 1844 and 1845, by appointment of the governor.

He was subsequently a judge of the supreme court of New York.

Foster, Henry Donnel

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1812, in Mercer, Pa. He was elected to the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses; and was elected to the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1846 and 1847. He was the democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1860; and was. elected to the fortysecond congress. He served on the committee of claims, and other important committees.