FOSTER, DENNIS M. Lake Charles, LA ** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin published in 1891; page 150. Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore Dennis M. Foster, Lake Charles. - Dennis M. Foster, post-master of Lake Charles, was born in Summerset county, Maine, January 23, 1844. He is the son of Daniel and Lucy Foster. D.M. Foster was educated in Alton, Maine. In July, 1862, he enlisted in the United States service, Company A, Twentieth Regiment of Maine Volunteers, as a private. He was afterward promoted to captain of the Eighty-First United States Colored Regiment and brevet major of United States Volunteers. He participated in the battles at South Mountain, Antietam, Sharpsburg, Ball's Bluff, Shepardstown Ford, Fredericksburg and the siege of Port Hudson. At the close of the war he was in New Orleans. Shortly afterward he began a mercantile business at Gretna, Louisiana, in which he continued one year. Soon after he went to Pointe Coupee parish, and was occupied in cotton planting during the year 1867, when all his property being destroyed by overflow, he removed from there in 1869 and came to Lake Charles. Here he engaged in the timber business on the Calcasieu River, in which he has been interested more or less until recently. For the past few years he has given his attention to mercantile business at this place. In 1890 he was appointed post master at Lake Charles. Mr. Foster was married in 1865 to Miss Martha B. Shattuck, daughter of Benj. T. Shattuck. To them nine children have been born, seven sons and two daughters, six of whom are living.