Brief Life History of Charles Horace
When Charles Horace Foster was born on 22 September 1858, in Clarksville, Allegany, New York, United States, his father, Horace A Foster, was 23 and his mother, Margaret R Munger, was 21. He married Anna L Jones on 21 November 1881. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Freedom, Cattaraugus, New York, United States in 1892 and Centerville, Allegany, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 January 1934, in Falls Creek, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Marcy, Oneida, New York, United States.
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- Chas Foster, "New York State Census, 1905"
- Charles Henry Foster, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- Charles Horace Foster, "Find a Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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