Has  twice  been  delegate  to  the  state  convention ;  was  candidate  for  legislator  in  1S82  :
was  defeated,  but  elected  in  1S84  in  the  first  district  of  Luzerne  County,  comprising
the  city  of  Wilkes  Barre.  In  i8S3  he  came  within  fifteen  votes  of  being  nominated
for  Congress  against  General  E.  S.  Osborne.  He  was  nominated  for  Congress  in
1S92,  by  the  Republicans,  but  that  being  a  Democratic  year,  though  he  led  his
ticket,  he  went  down  with  the  rest  of  it.  He  is  now  a  prominent  business  man
and  lawyer.  Mr.  Foster's  residence  is  an  unpretending  one  on  Franklin  street
below  Market;  and,  though  his  business  is  strictly  that  of  a  lawyer  with  large
practice,  he  takes  great  pleasure  in  overseeing  and  managing  his  large  farm  in
Jackson  and  makes  frequent  visits  thither  with  his  fine  team  of  horses;  not  only  as
a  matter  of  business,  but  also  to  gratify  his  filial  devotion  to  his  aged  mother,
who  still  resides  at  the  modest  farmhouse,  where  she  has  spent  the  greater  part  of
her  long  life,  and  prefers  the  familiar  scenes  and  objects  of  her  early  womanhood
to  all  the  wealth  and  splendor  that  a  city  can  afford.  Res.,  17  So.  Franklin  St.,
Wilkes  Barre,  Pa.
FOSTER    GENEALOGY.
9503-


NARCISSA  FLORENCE,  b.
Rear  Admiral  Jenkins.
LILLIAN  BLANCHE,  b.
-;  m.,  Dr.  Frank  Jenkins,  son  of
,  June  29,  1SS8,  aged  eight  years.
9504.
9455.  ERNEST  BENJAMIN  FOSTER  ( Francis  A.,  Samuel  E.,  Samuel  E.,
Robert,  Joseph,  Samuel,  Samuel),  b.  June  2S,  1869,  Fairfield,  Me.:  m.  Charlestown,
Mass.,  Jan.  30,  1S95,  Clara  S.  Curtis,  of  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  b.  March  12,  1870.
