Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Foster, George W. 1840 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    GEORGE W. FOSTER, well known citizen and trustee of Ocean Park, is a native
of Sangamon County, Ill., born February 2nd, 1840. His father, Col. John D.
Foster, was a lawyer by profession, and a native of Clark County, Ky. He was a.
pioneer of Sangamon County, lived near Springfield and practiced law throughout
that region of country contemporaneously with Abraham Lincoln, not unfrequently
opposing him in court. Mr. Foster's mother was Eunice Miller, also a native of
Clark County, Ky. Mr. Foster was the eldest of seven children and spent his
boyhood in Sangamon County. In 1853 the family removed to Missouri and settled
at Kirksville, the county seat of Adair County. At the breaking out of the Civil
War he recruited the 22nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry and commanded the same
during the conflict. He was a brave and fearless officer and led his men in
bloody charges against the enemy's breastworks at the seige of Corinth and in
many other hard fought battles. Notwithstanding his youth, young George W.
joined his father's regiment and was at his side during and to the close of the
war. He held a commission as Quartermaster-Sergeant. He participated in the
hottest of the fight at Corinth and many other battles. He served three years,
luckily escaping bodily injury, and was mustered out of service at St. Louis in
February, 1865. After the war he returned to Sangamon County, Ill., and pursued
farming until 1878, when he removed to Kirksville, Mo. There he left his family
and went to Leadville, Colorado, to engage in mining. He followed mining in all
of its phases until 1902, when he came to Ocean Park, bought a home and settled
down. Leisure proved not a luxury to him, however, and he took up his trade,
that of a carpenter, and is the efficient foreman of the carpenter department of
the Abbot Kinney Company at Venice.

    Mr. Foster married, at Kirksville, Mo., Miss Margaret Scott, a native of
Boone County, Ky., born 1845, who was sixteen years of age at the time of her
marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have four children living—Emma, wife of E. D.
Wheeler, of Ocean Park; W. F. Foster, of Denver, Colorado; Abbie A., Mrs. F. C.
McArthur, of Los Angeles, and Dora Bell wife of Fred Olds, of Milwaukee, Wis.
John D. Foster met accidental death in a mine in Colorado in 1902, and George E.
died at the age of twelve years in Denver.

    Mr. Foster is an active and popular citizen and takes an interest in local
public affairs. In April, 1908, he was elected a member of the Ocean Park Board
of City Trustees and is a member of the following important committees: Finance,
Lighting, Building and Lands. He is a charter member G. A. R., Farragut Post
Dunn, is enrolled at the Soldiers' Home and is pensioned at $12.00 a month.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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