Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Foster, Hon. Henry D. 1808 - October 16, 1880
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Author: Latrobe Advance

Hon. Henry D. Foster, of this county, long eminent at the bar and as a leading
Democrat, died on Saturday last, at the residence of his son-in-law, F. A.
Happer, at Irwin, Pa., in the seventy-second year of his age. The funeral took
place from the residence of F. T. Clopper, at Greensburg, Monday last, at 3
o’clock pm.
Mr. Foster was a native of Mercer county, but his active life was spent in
Westmoreland. As far hack as 1828 he was an active young Democratic Jackson
politician of this county, was elected to the Legislature severed times in
Congress, and in 1866 was the Democratic candidate for governor against Governor
Curtin. Mr. Foster adorned whatever subject be touched in law or politics, and
was held in high esteem and affection by men of all parties.
Mr. Foster was descended from Alexander Foster, who about 172S, emigrated from
Londonderry, Ireland, and with many other Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, settled in
Little Briton township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Alexander Foster had
three sons and six daughters. His sons were: James, who removed to Washington
county. Pa. shortly after the Revolutionary war; John, who removed Tennessee,
where he died, leaving a large number of descendants; William, who was a
distinguished Presbyterian minister, pastor of the Upper Octorara congregation,
Lancaster county, Pa.: William was the grandfather of Hon. Henry D. Foster, just
deceased; also of his cousins, the late Alexander W. Foster and Col. J. Heron
Foster, of Pittsburgh. James was the grandfather of Stephen C. Foster, the great
American musical composer; also of William B. Foster, Jr., late Vice President
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and of Morrison Foster, of Allegheny City.
The descendants of John have been for many years distinguished in the councils
of Tennessee, and before the war of the Nation. 

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Latrobe Advance Wed, Oct 20, 1880

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