L.H. FOSTER
History of Arizona, page 523

In the field of Civil Engineering, few men are better known in the 
southwest than L.H. Foster, who is now engaged in the practice of 
his profession and in road contracting at Kingman, Mohave County. 
He is a native of Los  Angeles California where his birth occurred 
on August 7, 1883 and is a son of H.A. and Olie M. (Wright) Foster. 
His father, who was a minister of the Methodist Church, died in 
1923.

Mr. Foster received his educational training in the public schools 
of Los Angles and then took up the study and practice of Civil 
Engineering, starting as a government rodman.  He quickly acquired 
a working knowledge of that science and in 1901 was employed as a 
surveyor by the Los Angeles Railway Company.  In 1905 he had 
charge the construction of the Matthiessen dam in Ventura County 
California and in the following year engaged in subdivision and 
hydraulic survey work. In 1907 he was engaged on the surveys 
connected with the improvement of Los Angeles harbors in which 
he was engaged until 1910 when he began a series of topographic 
surveys which engaged his attention for nearly a year.  In 1911 
Mr. Foster came to Arizona and took charge of the Cotton Land 
Company of Mohave County to which he devoted his attention until 
1915 when he was appointed U.S. Mineral Surveyor for Arizona. 
From 1917 to 1920 he served as a member of the County board of 
supervisors and from 1923 to 1927 held the position of County 
Engineer of Mohave County.

On November 11, 1902 Mr. Foster married Stella M. Stonaker, of 
New York City, and they are the parents of two children, Leona L. 
and Marjory S.

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