BIOGRAPHIES:  Charles M. FOSTER, Fairchild, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Charles M. Foster, farmer, Fairchild, was born in Tioga county, N.
Y., August 5, 1826, and is the fourth in a family of seven children
of Willard and Lovisa (Pickering) Foster, natives of New York.  His
brothers and sisters are as follows:  Abijah, deceased; Huldah P.,
widow of Daniel Gaskill; Louisa, deceased wife of Jason Whittamore;
Grace, deceased wife of Gilbert Arnold; Olive F., wife of william
Sherwood, and Nathaniel C.  His early life was spent in his native
county, where he received a good common-school education and learned
the trade of carpenter and joiner.  At the age of twenty-eight he
left his native state and settled in Waushara county, Wis., where he
remained fifteen years engaged in farming.  He enlisted in the army
at the last call for troops and his company was stationed at Camp
Randall when the war closed.  He was discharged after a short service
of one month, and returned home.  In 1855 he married Miss Mary
Hemstrought, a daughter of Richard and Sarah Hemstrought, natives of
New York.  Mrs. Foster was born May 7, 1816.  Mr. Foster is
democratic in politics and has been a member of the village board.
He is much interested in the growth of the town and always assists in
enterprises of a public nature.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 580-581.

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