Ronald Martin Foster

Brief Life History of Ronald Martin

When Ronald Martin Foster was born on 3 October 1896, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, his father, Alfred Dean Martin, was 49 and his mother, Sarah Ella Pitts, was 49. He married Anna Bell Conover on 12 April 1924. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in United States in 1949 and Westfield, Union, New Jersey, United States in 1950. He died on 2 February 1998, in Belmar Borough, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 101.

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Family Time Line

Ronald Martin Foster
1896–1998
Anna Bell Conover
1894–
Marriage: 12 April 1924
Ronald Martin Foster Jr
1926–2006
Herbert A Foster
1928–
Theodore Foster
1930–
Alan S Foster
1934–

Sources (15)

  • Ronald Foster, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ronald Martin Foster - Published information: birth-name: Ronald Martin Foster
  • Ronald M Foster, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1903

1903: Replaced Westfield township 1903: Part to Garwood borough 1907: Part from Mountainside borough 1915: Part from Fanwood township 1954: Part to Cranford township 1955: Part to Cranford township

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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