Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Foster, George W. December 19 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    GEORGE W. FOSTER, M. D., a prominent physician of Stevenson, Ala., was born
in Jackson county, December 19, 1856. He was educated first in the county
schools and then in the William and Mary Austin academy at Stevenson, Ala.
Leaving school when he was twenty-one years old he immediately commenced the
study of medicine with Dr. William Mason, in Jackson county, and afterward
attended Vanderbilt university, graduating in 1882. Locating in Stevenson, he
began the practice of his profession there, and has remained there thus engaged
ever since. He is a member of Jackson county Medical society, and was its
secretary from 1882 to 1889. He was also a member of the county board of
censors, and was president of the county society one year. He is also a member
of the Alabama Medical association, and of the Tri-State Medical association. He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity; and of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church. He was married, December 5, 1883, to Miss Jennie Graham, daughter of F.
J. Graham, of Jackson county, Ala., and to this marriage there have been born
three children, viz.: Mary, Sarah and Jennie. Dr. Foster's father, T. Boyd
Foster, was born in Virginia, and came to Alabama when yet a young man, locating
in Jackson county. He was a civil engineer, and was surveyor of Jackson county
about forty years. He married, for his first wife, Eleanor Cowan, of Jackson
county, and by her he had eight children, viz.: William, who was killed at Peach
Tree creek in the Confederate service; Samuel C., who was killed in front of
Atlanta; Thomas T., who lost a leg at Peach Tree creek, and is now living in
Jackson county; Andrew B., who served all through the war, and now lives in
Texas; Hugh C., who was in the Confederate service from 1863 to 1865, and who
now lives in Texas; Elizabeth, deceased wife of M. L. Rudder, of Jackson county;
Prudence, wife of B. J. Rudder, of Jackson county, and R. A., of Texas. Mr.
Foster married, for his second wife, Sarah Mumford Mason, of Wythe county, Va.,
and to this marriage there were born two children, viz.: Dr. G. W. Foster, and
Mary E., wife of H. Colfield of Jackson county. Mrs. Foster died in February,
1861. Mr. Foster, as well as his wife, was a native of Virginia.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1136-1137
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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