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Foster, Isaac – Foster, Randolph Sinks

Foster, Isaac

physician, surgeon, was born about 1740, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a delegate to the first provincial congress of Massachusetts in 1744. He was at the head of the military medical department during the revolutionary war, and was director-general of the American hospital department. He died in February, 1781..

Foster, Jacob Post Giraud

lawyer, was born April 8, 1827, in New York city. He practiced in New York city, and gained a high reputation, especially as an insurance lawyer. He died Feb. 26, 1886, in New York city.

Foster, James Peers

lawyer, was born Aug. 31, 1848, in Flushing, N. Y.

He was chosen the first president of what is now the republican league of the United States. He is a trustee and director in various corporations and institutions of New York city.

Foster, Jedediah

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1726, in Andover, Mass. In 1776 he was appointed a judge of the superior court; and was for many years a judge of probate, and also of the court of common pleas. He died Oct. 17, 1779, in Brookfield, Mass.

Foster, John G

educator, lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1868, in Morgan county, Ohio. He attended the National Normal school of Lebanon, Ohio; and graduated from the law department of the West Virginia university. He attained success in educational work, and became county superintendent of schools. He is now engaged in the practice of law at Fayetteville, W. Va.

Foster, John Gray

soldier, civil engineer, was born May 27, 1823, in Whitefield, N. H. He received the brevets of first lieutenant and captain for gallantry. He was assistant engineer in Maryland in 1848-52, and on coast survey duty in Washington, D. C., in 1852-54. He served with distinction through the civil war. He died Sept. 2, 1874, in Nashua, N. H. For many years he served as a professor of engineering at West Point.

Foster, John Hamilton

physician, legislator, was born in 1826, in Guilford county, N. C. He was a member of the territorial legislature of Oregon in the early fifties, and was known as a prominent physician and one of the pioneers of that profession in central Iowa, where he located in 1853. He died Dec. 7, 1894, in Iowa Falls, Iowa.

Foster, N. C

railroad president, was born in Owego, N. Y. He entered railway service in 1882, as owner of the Chicago, Fairchild and Eau Claire River railroad; of which he has been president and general manager since 1891. He was also president and general manager of the Sault Ste. Marie and Southwestern railway from 1886 for several years. He has taken an active part in the public affairs of Fairchild, Wis.; and in all measures for the welfare of his state.

Foster, Nathaniel G

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1809, in The Fork, Ga. He served three years as solicitor-general of the Ocmulgee circuit; five years in the state senate, and one year in the house; and was a representative in the thirty-fourth congress.

Foster, Randolph Sinks

educator, college president, bishop, author, was born Feb. 22, 1820, in Williamsburg, Ohio.

He has been president of the Northuniversity western of Evanston, Ill.; president of the Theological Drew seminary of Madison, N. J.; and is now a bishop of the methodist episcopal church at Roxbury, Mass. He is the author of Objections to Calvinism; Christian Purity; Ministry Needed for the Times; Theism; Beyond the Grave; Centenary Thoughts; and Studies in Theology.