Bio of Foster, Scott A. (b.1856) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Foster, Scott A., was born in Washington county, New York, June 2, 1856.
His father, Albert Foster, is an old settler in West Albany, Wabasha
county, and it was here on a farm that young Foster's early life was
spent. He attended the Lake City high school for a few terms. In 1875 he
entered the State University, and kept up with his classes for three
years, although obliged to do the requisite studying while also engaged in
teaching district school to earn the means with which to defray his
college expenses. The fall of 1880 he was elected principal of the Elgin
union school, and taught therein acceptably for two years; then filled a
similar position in the Plainview union school until elected county
superintendent of schools in the fall of 1883. Prof. Foster was elected by
a majority of one hundred and twenty-eight, running six hundred ahead of
his ticket, and being the only man therein elected.
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