Biographical Sketch of H. M. Foster, Greene County, Missouri,
Jackson Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of Elias W. and Sarah J. Foster, and was born
in Tioga county, New York, January 10, 1831.  His father was at first
engaged in the lumber trade, but for the past twenty-five years has 
been farming and is yet hale and stout at the age of seventy-eight. His
mother died in July, 1882, at the age of seventy-seven.  Mr. Foster be-
longs to a long lived family, his father, brothers and sisters all yet
living, and his father's mother lived to be one hundred and four years
of age.  H. M. Foster was brought to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, when
he was seven years of age, where he lived until 1860, and then moved to
the central part of Michigan where he remained seventeen years, and in
April, 1877, came to Missouri, and settled in Jackson township, Greene
county.  Before coming to this State, Mr. Foster was engaged in the 
lumber business, but here he has followed the occupation of farming. He
improved a farm of eighty acres south of Strafford, which he sold in
1881, and then bought the place upon which he now lives.  Mr. Foster 
was married January 1, 1855, to Miss Eunice, daughter of Thomas L. 
Moore, of Tioga county, New York.  They had three children by this
marriage, all of whom are dead.  Mrs. Foster died June 18, 1865, and he
was married the second time to Miss Alice Davis, daughter of Thomas
Davis, of this county, formerly of Tennessee.  Their union has been
blest with three children, two girls and a boy.

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