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