When Howard Erwin Foster was born on 9 October 1879, in Barton, Orleans, Vermont, United States, his father, Freeland Huston Foster, was 29 and his mother, Ida Lietta Gilles, was 24. He married Leora Fairbanks on 2 October 1900, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Westmore, Orleans, Vermont, United States for about 20 years and Lyndon, Caledonia, Vermont, United States for about 30 years. He died in Vermont, United States, and was buried in Lyndon, Caledonia, Vermont, United States.
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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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
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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