When Abraham Foster Sr was born on 20 June 1768, in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Isaac Foster, was 31 and his mother, Anne Gray, was 25. He married Amelia Strope about 1790, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Northville, LaSalle, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died in 1858, in LaSalle, Illinois, United States, at the age of 90.
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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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