Brief Life History of Harry Francis
When Harry Francis Foster was born on 15 September 1899, in Limpopo, South Africa, his father, Harry Foster, was 25 and his mother, Frances C. Watson, was 24. He married Marian Bringhurst on 15 February 1928, in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States. He immigrated to San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1943 and lived in Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940 and Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States for about 1 years. He died on 2 July 1984, in Sonoma, Sonoma, California, United States, at the age of 84.
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Sources (12)
- Harry F Foster, "United States 1950 Census"
- Harry Francis Foster, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Harry Foster, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1922
Communist Party of South Africa established (after 1953, the South African Communist Party).
Name Meaning
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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