When Amasa Foster was born on 1 May 1832, in Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Jeptha Foster, was 29 and his mother, Asaneth Ann Hovey, was 23. He married Mary J Sipprell on 9 December 1855, in Monticello, Aroostook, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Maine, United States in 1870 and Los Nietos, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1880. He died on 25 October 1892, at the age of 60, and was buried in Kenduskeag, Penobscot, Maine, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Historical Boundaries: 1839: Aroostock, Maine, United States
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
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.
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