Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Foster, George 1845 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE FOSTER. This enterprising and ml worthy farmer of section 22, Watertown
Township, Tuscola County, is a native of Ontario, Canada, where he was born
December 21, 1845. His father, John Foster, a native of Ireland, became an early
settler in Canada when only a boy, and his mother was one of the very first who
settled in Nelson Township, Halton County, Canada. The marriage of the father of
our subject to Mary J. Blagdon, a Canadian by birth, took place in 1844, and
four sons and four daughters were sent to cheer their home.

  When a young man John Foster was a sailor, but during the most of his active
life has followed agriculture. He is one of the prominent men of the township
and filled the offices of Assessor and Appraiser for a number of years while
living in Nelson Township. Our subject was reared in Canada and after coming to
Tuscola County worked in Millington Township, for Avery & Murphy. In 1874 he
bought the farm of eighty acres which is now his, and at present owns one
hundred and sixty acres of land.

  In Watertown Township, Tuscola County, our subject was married July 4, 1878,
to Sophia J. Duncan, a daughter of James Duncan of whom more is said elsewhere
in this volume. To our subject and his wife have been born two children, George
W. and Mary J. The Methodist Church is the religious body with which Mr. and
Mrs. Foster have connected themselves and in which they are active and useful
members. The political views of our subject bring him into affiliation with the
Republican party and in its prosperity he feels deeply interested, yet he cannot
be called a politician as he prefers the quiet of home life to the excitement of
the political arena.

  The citizens of Watertown Township are justly proud of the many beautiful
homesteads which their section of country boasts, and among them one of the most
attractive is that of Mr. Foster, which with its neat residence and well-kept
buildings, indicates the thrift of the proprietor. A view of this place is
presented elsewhere in this volume.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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