When William C. Foster was born on 30 June 1837, in Smithfield, Somerset, Maine, United States, his father, William Foster, was 38 and his mother, Esther W. Whitehouse, was 34. He married Amelia Francis Damerin on 20 November 1861, in Belgrade, Kennebec, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, United States in 1880 and Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1900. He died about 1916, in Oakland, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 80.
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Historical Boundaries: 1840: Somerset, Maine, United States
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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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