FOSTER, T. D., St. Mary then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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T. D. FOSTER, NEW IBERIA.--T. D. Foster, District Attorney, is the son
of T J. Foster, an extensive sugar planter of St. Mary parish.  His
mother's family, the Murphys, were among the pioneers of that parish.

T. D. Foster received a literary education in the Washington Lee 
University, Va.  He studied law in Franklin, and was admitted to the bar
before the Supreme Court in Opelousas in 1880.  He first located at 
Alexandria, Louisiana, and was for three years engaged as attorney for
the Texas Pacific Railway.  He removed to New Iberia in 1885, where he
has become one of the leading attorneys.  Mr. Foster is the senior
member of the law firm of Foster & Broussard.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 108.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.