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Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1895


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              JAMES C. FOSTER, Treasurer of Luce county, Michigan, and
           manager of the hardware business of M. R. MANHARD, at Newberry,
           is a young man of excellent business ability and has by his
           honorable and upright course won the confidence and respect of
           all with whom he has had dealings during the nine years of his
           residence at this place. It was in 1886 that MR. FOSTER became
           identified with Newberry, he having come here at that time as
           clerk in the branch store of MR. MANHARD, which was established
           that year; also as assistant Postmaster, under FRED J. STEWART.
           The following year, 1887, when only eighteen years of age, he
           was made manager of the establishment, which responsible posi-
           tion he retains to the present time. As he is one of the leading
           young men of the town, biographical mention of him is not inap-
           propriate in this connection. A complete sketch, however, cannot
           be given, as much of his life, we hope, yet lies before him.
              JAMES C. FOSTER was born in Lanark county, Ontario, December
           21, 1869, and traces his ancestry back to Scotland, his fore-
           fathers having resided on the borders of that country and
           England. THOMAS FOSTER, his father, was a miller at Brewers
	   Mills, near Kingston, Canada. He died in 1871, at the age of
	   thirty-five years. The mother of our subject was before her
	   marriage MISS MARY MANHARD, she being a sister of M. R. MANHARD,
	   of Marquette, Michigan. She is now living in Newberry with her
	   son and only child. MR. FOSTER concluded when a boy to become a
	   machinist, and accordingly entered upon an apprenticeship to
	   that trade at Smith's Falls, receiving as compensation for his
	   work forty-eight cents per day. After fifteen months of close
	   confinment in the shop he became dissatisfied and abandoned the
	   trade. At the end of this time he came to Michigan and was sent
	   down to Newberry by his uncle, and, as already stated, has been
	   manager of his uncle's store since 1887.
	      MR. FOSTER very early in life got into politics as well as
	   into business, his support being given to the Republican party,
	   with which he has since been connected. He was elected Village
	   Trustee the day he cast his first ballot; is now completing his
	   second term as such officer. In November, 1892, he was elected
	   County Treasurer by seventy-nine majority and was re-elected in
	   1894 by 165, the largest majority ever given in the county. His
	   re-election to this important position is ample evidence of his
	   popularity and efficiency.
	      Socially he is connected with the I. O. O. F. and the A. F. &
	   A. M., in the latter having a membership in the Newberry Lodge,
	   Manistique Chapter, and Marquette Commandery, and in the lodge
	   occupying the office of Senior Deacon.

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