Willis G Foster

Brief Life History of Willis G

When Willis G Foster was born on 16 October 1898, in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Charles A Foster, was 45 and his mother, Catherine A. "Kate" Garvin, was 35. He died on 30 December 1906, in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 8, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles A Foster
1853–1940
Catherine A. "Kate" Garvin
1863–
Alfred Gardner Foster
1890–
George Leonard Foster
1893–1964
Willis G Foster
1898–1906
Wallace C Foster
1898–1976

Sources (5)

  • Willis G Foster in household of Catherine Foster, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Willis G Foster, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
  • Willis G. Foster, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

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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