BIO: Rodgers K. FOSTER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 80-81.
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  RODGERS K. FOSTER, Esq., Huntingdon, Pa., was born in Phillipsburg, Pa., 
March 8, 1866.  He is a son of the Rev. Milton K. Foster, D.D., and Martha 
Hueston (Rodgers) Foster, who now reside in Williamsport, Pa.  Rev. Dr. 
Foster is of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Lewisberry, York county, 
Pa.  He has been for thirty-five years a clergyman of the M. E. church.  
Mrs. Foster's ancestors were English and Irish; her birthplace was 
Philadelphia.  Of their five children, two died in childhood, and two, 
besides Mr. R. K. Foster, survive, and reside with their parents in 
Williamsport; Mary Lydia and Milton Hugh.
  First a schoolboy in the public schools of Altoona, Pa., then for two 
years a student at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., and for four years 
at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., and a graduate of the latter 
institution in 1886 - such was, in brief, the scholastic training of Rodgers 
K. Foster.  He took up the study of law under the preceptorship of Hon. 
George B. Orlady, and was admitted to the Huntingdon county bar in October, 
1888.  Mr. Foster adheres to the Republican party.
  Rodgers K. Foster was married in Huntingdon January 1, 1890, to Alice B., 
daughter of S. B. and Mary Chaney, of Huntingdon.  They have two children:  
Hugh B. and Donald R.  Mr. and Mrs. Foster are members of the M. E. church.