James S. Foster Biography


	This biography appears on page 949 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	JAMES S. FOSTER, first superintendent of public instruction, was 
born in Salisbury, Connecticut, in 1828. He conducted the famous New 
York colony to Dakota in 1864. Was superintendent of schools and 
commissioner of immigration. He was accidentally killed by the 
discharge of a gun at Mitchell in 1890.