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EDWIN FOUST came to his present farm of  forty-eight acres, on section 19 in Jefferson Township, in 1870. Upon the theory of Horace Greeley, that a moderate amount of land well cultivated is more desirable than a large extent partially neglected, he has labored with most excellent results. In addition to the raising of the cereals and vegetables for his household use he has given considerable attention to the breeding of live stock, and has been finely prospered, besides having one of the neatest and most attractive homesteads in the township. As a member of the community he is held in high respect, having proved himself a first-class citizen, and without openly professing Christianity has endeavored to do unto others as he would that they should do unto him.
Our subject, who is in the prime of life, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1840.
     His parents, Samuel and Cynthia (Cutler) Foust, were natives respectively of Ohio and Vermont, the father having been born in Delaware County, Oct. 5, 1815.  He also followed farming and merchandising to some extent, besides owning and operating a potash and pearlash factory. He left the Buckeye State in 1853, and coming to Michigan purchased land, a part of which lay in Cambria and a part in Jefferson Township, and which now belongs to our subject. The parental household included twelve children, eight of whom are living, three in Michigan and five in Ohio.
     Samuel Foust endorsed Republican principles after the organization of that party, and in religious views was a Baptist. He cast his last vote in the fall of 1887, and died Jan. 14, 1888, in Williams County, Ohio, to which he had returned to live in 1873. The mother is also deceased. The boyhood and youth of Edwin Foust were spent mostly at his father's farm, and he received a common-school education.  He commenced life for himself upon reaching his majority, and was married when past the thirty-third year of his age, Dec. 1, 1873, to Miss Elizabeth Cope, who was born April 30, 1840, in Marion County, Ohio, and is the daughter of Abram and Elizabeth Cope. After his marriage he worked his father's farm seven years, and in 1870 purchased twenty acres, and subsequently added to his real estate by the further purchase of twenty acres. He is the father of two children only: His daughter Etta, who was born Jan. 8, 1865, was married to John Watkins, a well-to-do farmer of Jefferson Township, and they have one child; the son, Judson, was born July 26, 1875, and is now taking a course of study in the Montpelier (Ohio) graded school. Mr. Foust, like his father, is a Republican, politically, and is one of those upright and straightforward citizens who universally command respect among their neighbors.
(Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Hillsdale County, Michigan, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. (Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1888), Michigan County Histories and Atlases, 695.
 - Contributed by Judith Anne (Weeks) Ancell from family records.)