Biography of George H. Foster, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Foster, Henderson.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 290

George H. Foster

Our subject's eyes first looked out upon the light of day in the vicinity of
Florence, Nez Perce county, Idaho, he being, of course, the son of pioneer
parents. His father, James B., had crossed the plains in 1847, and his mother
Elizabeth Foster, nee Henderson, had made her way over the same toilsome
journey sometime in the early fifties. Their birthplaces were respectively the
states of Iowa and Missouri.

Our subject was born January 6, 1866. In 1870 he was brought by his parents to
Baker county, of which his father, a Baptist minister, was elected the first
school superintendent. The family owned and occupied what is now the county
poor farm. After a residence of about five years here, they returned to Idaho,
locating in Boise, where Mr. Foster received the major part of his educational
discipline. After leaving the Boise high school he served an apprenticeship in
the handicraft of the printer, but he seems to have cared but little for that
business, for soon we find him engaged in the railway mail service. To this
six years of his life were devoted then he received an appointment as
postmaster at Baker City, and for the ensuing three years he served as such
with great faithfulness and efficiency. The next two years were given to the
bakery business, he being proprietor of the City bakery, but in 1895 he was
summoned by the franchises of the people to the office of city treasurer,
where he is still efficiently serving. In 1898 he accepted the post of deputy
county recorder, the duties of which are now being discharged by him in
conjunction with the city treasurership. Mr. Foster brings to the work in
which he is now engaged the same conscientiousness and painstaking
thoroughness which have ever characterized him in both public and private
life, and which have won him confidence and esteem from all who have known him
intimately.

In that excellent fraternal organization, the I.O.O.F., our subject is a very
active worker. He has passed through all the chairs in the subordinate lodge,
and once was elected to an office in the grand body, to which he has many
times been a delegate. Like most residents in a rich mining region, Mr. Foster
is personally interested in the search for mineral wealth and in the process
of its production. He owns some valuable properties in the Granite country.