Columbia-Cumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....FOSNOT, Lew C. 1848 - living in 1899
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  LEW C. FOSNOT, the subject of this short sketch, the able editor of the
  Watsontown Record and Star, was born February 8, 1848, in Cumberland County,
  Pa., and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Vanderbilt) Fosnot.
  
    Jacob Fosnot, our subject's father, was born in 1804, and died in 1850. He was
  a weaver by trade. He married Mary Vanderbilt, who was born in 1804, and died in
  1872, surviving her husband twenty-two years. Their family consisted of twelve
  children, eight of whom grew to maturity, as follows: William C.; Mary Jane;
  Martha M.; John C.; Joshua V.; Edward W.; Lew C.; and Henry J.
  
    Lew C. Fosnot, our subject, received a good education in the public schools
  and then learned the printer's trade. Feeling it his duty to serve his country
  in her hour of need he enlisted as a private on January 30, 1864, in Battery G,
  2d Reg., Pa. Artillery, and served until January 29, 1866, going with the armies
  of the Potomac and James. He was also employed in the United States Weather
  Bureau for three months. In 1877 he became the editor of the Watsontown Record,
  and in 1882 began the publication of the West Branch Star, which he has
  continued to edit with marked success until the present time. In 1884 the Record
  was consolidated with the Star under the name of the Record and Star. In
  politics the paper is independent, always championing that which is best for the
  town and county.
  
    Mr. Fosnot has ever upheld the principles of the Democratic party, and is a
  member of the G. A. R. and I. O. O. F. On January 23, 1871, he was united in
  marriage with Belle Westafer of Newville, Pa., and three children blessed this
  union, but only one son, John Clyde, survives, the two daughters, Lulu Maud and
  Bessie Irene, having gone to a better world.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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