Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Foster, Edwin April 5, 1816 - 
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EDWIN FOSTER, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Rockland; was born in Sullivan Co., N. 
H., April 5, 1816, where he was married to Louisa Moody. She was born in 
Unity, N. H., but at the time of their marriage, was a resident of the State 
of New York. After his marriage, he removed to Muscatine Co., Iowa, and 
engaged in farming. He lived in that county about thirteen years. In 1854, he 
went to Winona, Minn., and purchased a claim, which included the present site 
of that city. His wife died at Winona. His present wife was Elizabeth Sawyer, 
born in Orange Co., N. Y. Mr. Foster had four children by first wife, three of 
whom are living - William Seward, born Nov. 2, 1842, was a soldier in the war 
of the rebellion; was a member of Co. A, 1st W. V. C.; was in the service 
three and a half years, but was a prisoner of war during a part of his term of 
enlistment; was a prisoner at Andersonville six months, and afterward at 
Florence, N. C. His second child, Clara Louise, now Mrs. Edwin C. Kneeland, 
and Marion H. Have four children by second marriage - Ella, now Mrs. Ellis 
Fulton; Flora, Edwin W. and Mary T. Several members of the family of Mr. 
Foster, were well-known and influential men. The family are relatives of 
Bancroft, the eminent American historian. A brother, Mr. Amos Bancroft Foster, 
was a graduate at West Point. He was killed at Green Bay, Wis., while in 
command at Fort Howard, by an insubordinate private soldier, named Doyle. This 
event occurred Feb. 7, 1832. Another brother, Dr. John H. Foster, settled in 
Chicago in 1832, where he died in 1874. He was a prominent and wealthy citizen 
of that city. Another brother, the Rev. Aaron J. Foster, was a graduate at 
Dartmouth College; was quite an eminent Congregational clergyman. He traveled 
quite extensively in Europe and elsewhere. Another brother, Suel, is an 
eminent horticulturist of Muscatine, Iowa. The father of Mr. Foster had ten 
children, five of whom are living, viz.: Mehitable, born in 1798, resides at 
Malone, N. Y.; Sarah T., born in 1809; Suel, 1811, and Edwin in 1816. A tenth 
child lives in Henry Co., Ill.

Additional Comments:
From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 844.

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