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Foster, Stephen Collins

author, poet, was born July 4, 1826, in Pittsburg, Pa.

He was a famous song writer and composer of Pittsburg and New York city.

He set to music one hundred and twentyfive or more songs, the words in nearly all cases being his own. Some of them, like the Suwanee River, My Old Kentucky Home, and Nelly Bly, are known in all English-speaking lands. He died Jan. 13, 1864 , in New York city.

FOSTER STEPHEN SYMONDS, abolitionist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, in Canterbury, N. H. He was a noted antislavery agitator of Worcester, Mass. He was the author of The Brotherhood of Thieves, a True Picture of the American Church and Clergy.

He died Sept. 8, 1881, in Worcester, Mass.