The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . iety of Friends, in Orangecounty, N. Y. .and his great-grand-father, Jesse Foster, resided atDanbury, Conn., and served inthe revolutionary war. His moth-er, Harriet Scott, was a d
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . iety of Friends, in Orangecounty, N. Y. .and his great-grand-father, Jesse Foster, resided atDanbury, Conn., and served inthe revolutionary war. His moth-er, Harriet Scott, was a daughterof John Scott and Abigail Chi-chester, whose ancestors wereamong the early settlers of South-ampton, L. I. At the age of six-teen Scott entered the employof Jeremiah Lambert, dry-goodsmerchant, in Greenwich street,New York citj\ where his broth-er, John Gray Foster, joined him the following two brothers remained with the same employeruntil 1860, when they engaged in business on their ownaccount, opening a store in Bleecker street, under thefirm name of Poster Brothers, and in a few years theyhad successfully extended their business to a numberof points in Indiana. After the death of his brotherin 1878, Mr. Foster continued the business, in con-nection with his younger brothers until 1883, when,his health becoming impaired, he dissolved the after he was offered the position of. ^j^^i^t^ x/^^y-d^*- 230 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA vice-president of tlie Peoples banli (organized in1851), in whicli he liad been a director for six years,and wliere liis Ann bad always transacted business,and on the death of Mr. Charles F. Hunter, in 1884,he was elected to succeed him as president. DuringjNIr. Fosters administration, the deposits of the bankhave been more than doubled, and its surplus in-creased threefold. In politics he has always beena republican, but never a strong partisan. In 1867^rr. Foster married Emeliue Hegeman, daughter ofJohn S. Hegeman of Potte
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