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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait and
Biographical History of
Fayette, Pickaway and Madison Counties, Ohio
Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros.
1892
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DANIEL B. FOSTER.
Among the well-known and influential citizens of Oak Run
Township, Madison County, is the gentleman whose name
introduces this paragraph, and who is a successful farmer,
using the best methods of fertilizing the soil and improving
his property. He was born in Ross County, this State,
Mar. 7, 1828, and was the son of John and Eliza (Bowyer)
Foster, natives, respectively, of Ross and Pike
Counties, this State.
The father of our subject, who was born Mar. 4, 1802,
was a farmer by occupation, and came to Madison County when
our subject was a lad of five years. He was a man who
had made his own way in the world, and was financially
successful, leaving at his death an estate of one thousand
acres of land. Our subject was the eldest child of the
parental family of ten children, eight of whom are still
living, all making their homes in Madison County with the
exception of Miranda, Mrs. Mooreman,
who is residing in Harvey, Ill. The father of our
subject was a Whig, in politics, and voted for John Q.
Adams in 1824. On the organization of the
Republican party, however, he joined its ranks in 1856.
Daniel Foster was reared on the old home farm,
and received a common-school education. He began to do
for himself after reaching his majority. When
twenty-four years of age, he was married to Miranda
MCClimans, by whom he became the father of three
children: Flora, who died at the age of six months;
Bernard, who is a carpenter, and makes his home in
London, this State; and Jennie, now the wife of
John B. Van Wagoner, a grain merchant in the above-named
place. The wife and mother departed this life in
August, 1860, and the lady whom our subject chose as his
second wife, Jan. 14, 1863, was Miss Margaret M. Johnston.
To them have been born the following-named nine children:
Jesse, Allie, Kemper L., Elmer B.,
Eva, Washington I., Frank E., Maud
and Chester G.
In politics, our subject was a
Whig, casting his first Presidential vote in 1852. He
then joined the ranks of the Republican party, with which he
voted until 1886, and is now a Prohibitionist. He has
served his party as a delegate to county and State
conventions, but has in no wise been an office-seeker.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster and several of their children are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which
denomination our subject has been Class-leader for
twenty-two years, and Sunday school Superintendent for a
period of twenty years. On the death of his father, he
fell heir to one hundred and twenty-five acres of land, and
by his union with his first wife became the proprietor of
one hundred acre. His possessions now aggregate five
hundred acres, which are adorned with all the necessary
buildings which make of agriculture a pleasurable as well as
profitable business. In 1862, Mr. Foster
erected a beautiful residence on his estate, which is
finished and furnished in a manner which indicates its
inmates to be people of means and culture.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier
in the War of 1812. His father was a twin brother of
James Foster, the father of Mrs. J. B. Chenowith,
Mrs. J. S. Pancake and Mrs. Allison S. Grimm.
Source:
Portrait and
Biographical History of
Fayette, Pickaway and Madison Counties, Ohio. Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 758 |
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