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Foster, Robert Verrell – Foute, Robert Chester

Foster, Robert Verrell

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1845, in Tennessee. He is a Cumberland presbyterian clergyman and educator; and has been professor of Hebrew in the Theological seminary at Lebanon, Tenn., since 1877. He is the author of Introduction to the Study of Theology; Old Testament Studies; and Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans.

Foster, Stephen

educator, college president, was born Feb. 15, 1798, in Andover, Mass. In 1827 he took the chair of Latin and Greek in the East Tennessee college, now the university of Tennessee, of Knoxville, and became president of the college in 1834. He died Jan. 11, 1835 , in Knoxville, Tenn. 1

Foster, Stephen C

lumber merchant, ship builder, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1799, in Machias, Maine.

He was in the Maine legislature from 1834 to 1837, again in 1840, when he was president of the senate, and again in 1847.

He was elected to congress from Maine in 1856, serving through the thirty-fifth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress; and was a member of the peace congress of 1861.

Foster, Thomas Flournoy

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1790, in Greenborough, Ga. He was for many years a member of the Georgia legislature; and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1829 to 1835, and again from 1841 to 1843. He died in 1847, in Columbus, Ga.

Foster, Wilder D

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1821, in Monroe, N. Y. He was city treasurer and alderman of Grand Rapids, Mich Mich.; and in 1854 was elected mayor.

He was elected state senator for 1855 and 1856; again elected mayor in 1865 and 1866, and was elected to the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy, and was reelected to the forty-third congress. He died Sept. 20, 1873.

Foster, William Eaton

author, was born in 1851, in Vermont. He is a librarian of Providence, and the author of The Civil Service Reform Movement; The Literature of Civil Service Reform in the United States; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman; and Town Government in Rhode Island.

Foster, William Prescott

lawyer, poet. He is a successful lawyer of Bar Harbor, Maine; and the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Fouke, Philip B

soldier, journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1818, in Kaskaskia, Ill. He was elected prosecuting attorney for his district, and was re-elected. In 1851 he was elected a member of the Illinois legislature; and in 1856 was again elected prosecuting attorney. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-sixth congress; and re-elected to the thirtyseventh congress.

Foulke, William Dudley

lawyer, legislator, author, was born Nov. 20, 1848, in New York city. He has served as a member of the Indiana state senate; president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform association; and as president of the American Woman's Suffrage association.

He is the author of Slav and Saxon.

Fouse, Levi G

underwriter, was born Oct. 21, 1850, in Morrison's Cove, Pa.

He is president of the American Faculty of Actuaries; and is the author of a system of life insurance which has plan. become popularly known as the Fouse

Foute, Robert Chester

naval officer, clergyman, was born April 14, 1841, in Greenville, Tenn. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; and attained the rank of lieutenant. He was ordained priest in 1874 in the Christ church of Savannah, Ga.; and in 1883 was elected rector of Grace church of San Francisco, Cal.