Brief Life History of George Oswell
When George Oswell Foster was born on 8 January 1825, in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Perez Foster, was 28 and his mother, Harriot Williams, was 28. He married Hannah Barker on 1 January 1856, in Geauga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Newbury Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1870. He died in 1878, at the age of 53.
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- Oswell Foster, "United States Census, 1860"
- Oswell Lloyd Foster, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Oswell S. Foster, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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