Brief Life History of Irwin Palmer
When Irwin Palmer Foster was born on 4 April 1881, in Garnett, Anderson, Kansas, United States, his father, William Harvey Foster, was 25 and his mother, Polly Jane Ashburn, was 21. He married Martha Dollie McMillen on 9 May 1938, in Cedar, Missouri, United States. He lived in Monroe Township, Anderson, Kansas, United States in 1900. He died on 29 December 1961, in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States.
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- Irwin P Foster in household of William N Foster, "United States Census, 1900"
- Irwin Foster, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Irwin Palmer Foster, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1882
Historical Boundaries: 1882: Gunnison, Colorado, United States 1883: Mesa, Colorado, United States
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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