When William Henry Foster was born about 1846, in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States, his father, Eddley Foster, was 23 and his mother, Mary Rebecca Sprague, was 26. He married Margaret Addie Angel on 27 February 1872, in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died before 1890.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
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.
Possible Related Names1883 Letter from William H Foster (son of Eddley Foster and Mary Rebecca Sprague) to Julia Foster Hampton. Transcript by Sharon Price Anderson PO Box 348 Jacksonville Illinois Decbr. 27th 1883 Dear …
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