When James Madison Foster was born on 17 August 1819, in Logan, Kentucky, United States, his father, James M Foster, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Simpson, was 20. He married Mary Bowles on 2 February 1844, in Kentucky, United States. He lived in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Hazel Hill Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 24 August 1878, at the age of 59, and was buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Warrensburg Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
Historical Boundaries: 1835: Johnson, Missouri, United States
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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