When Edward Everette Foster was born on 15 April 1845, in Peacham, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, his father, Hiram Foster, was 39 and his mother, Louisa Agnes Hale, was 27. He married Lenorah Electa Phillips on 25 December 1875, in Corydon, Wayne, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Allerton, Wayne, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Caney Township, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1900. He died on 20 May 1913, in Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States, at the age of 68.