Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Foster, Benjamin 1824 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Benjamin Foster, farmer, Attica, eldest child of James and Sarah (Lewis)
Foster, was born in Franklin county, Ohio, September 23, 1824. His father's
family settled in Shawnee township October 14, 1827. Mr. Foster is living close
to where they improved their home. In his lifetime he has seen the timber spring
up in his neighborhood and attain full growth, the larger trees measuring from
eighteen inches to two feet in diameter, and be cut down and cleared off, and
the ground brought into subjection to the plow. He was married in 1845, to
Samantha Griffith, who died in 1854, having been the mother of three children:
Charles (deceased), Sarah (deceased), and Mary. His second marriage was in 1855,
with Sarah Jane, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Malatt) Young, who settled in
Logan township in 1830, having come from Ohio. She was born November 2, 1827.
This union has been productive of six children: Raymond, born January 13, 1856;
John A., January 12, 1859; Willard, September 6, 1860; Simon, May 10, 1862;
Effie, October 16, 1864, and Olive, November 18, 1866. Mrs. Foster is a member
of the Christian church, of twenty-seven years standing. In 1876 Mr. Foster
visited the Centennial Exposition, at Philadelphia. He has a valuable farm of
160 acres, nearly all of which he cultivates. He is a leading man among «his
fellows, thoroughly enterprising and public-spirited, and an intelligent republican.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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