Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Foster, J. R. 1839 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  J. R. Foster, of Merriam, is a native of St. Joe county, Indiana, born in
1839. He is a son of Andrew and Cynthia (Reynolds) Foster, the former a native
of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. They were the parents of three children
as follows: Mary Ellen, deceased; Ann Eliza, now the wife of William A. Welch,
of Chattanooga, Tenn., and J. R., the subject of this sketch. J. R. Foster
received his education in the public schools and the Hillsdale Academy,
Hillsdale, Mich. He then entered the law department of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in the class of 1866. (He was a
class-mate of Hon. J. B. Foraker, former United States Senator from Ohio, and
Don M. Dickerson, former United States postmaster general.) Mr. Foster came to
Kansas in 1880 and since that time has been identified with Johnson county. He
was married in 1874 to Miss Mary Milburn at Mishawaka, Ind., and they have two
children, Charles M., born in South Bend, Ind., is unmarried and resides with
his parents, and' Florence, married Kenneth Hudson and resides at Ardmore, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster own one of the finest farms of Johnson county, located in
Mission township, which was formerly the George Milburn property. It originally
consisted of 800 acres and was purchased from the estate of Henry Coppeck by Mr.
Milburn and was formerly owned by Graham Rogers, a Shawnee Indian. Mr. Foster
bought 320 acres of this land and Mrs. Foster inherited the balance from her
father's estate. They have sold some of the land to the Strang Land Company and
still own 480 acres. Mr. Foster's is one of the ideal country homes of Johnson
county, his residence being practically new, and modern in every particular. He
is one of the substantial men of Shawnee township. In 1888 Mr. Foster was
elected a member of the Kansas legislature from Johnson county, and served with
credit to himself and his constituents in that body.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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