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

              [461-462]

              JOHN ROBERT FOSTER, one of the progressive and valued citi-
           zens of Lucy county, Michigan, is serving in the capacity of
           Treasurer of Columbus township, and is a well known educator,
           who for the past five years has successfully engaged in teaching
           in McMillan. He is still a young man and his ability and traits
           of character make us free to predict for him a successful
           future.
              MR. FOSTER is a native of Ontario, his birth having occurred
           in Little Briton, on the 24th of August, 1871. His parents
	   were JAMES and FRANCES FOSTER, and some of the mother's ancestry
	   were soldiers under CROMWELL. When about a year and a half old,
	   our subject was taken by his parents to Port Huron, Michigan,
	   where he remained until the spring of 1886. Then at the age
	   fifteen he removed to Newberry, Michigan, with ELLISON A.
	   BRYANT, an uncle, for he was now an orphan, his mother having
	   died when he was only six years of age, while the father's death
	   occurred when JOHN R. was a child of eight years. Almost a
	   decade has passed since MR. FOSTER located in Luce county, where
	   he attained his majority, and as a means of livelihood took up
	   the teacher's profession, having for the past five years had
	   charge of the schools of McMillan in Columbus township, where he
	   is recognized as an able educator, his labors giving good satis-
	   faction.
	      In the spring of 1892, when twenty-one years of age, MR.
	   FOSTER was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of the
	   Treasurer of Columbus township, Luce county; in the spring of
	   1894 he was elected to the same office; and in April, 1895, was
	   re-elected, so that he is the present incumbent. In his politi-
	   cal views he is a stalwart Republican and an ardent advocate of
	   protective tariff. Socially, he is connected with the Masonic
           fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His friends
           speak of him in terms of highest commendation and he is a popu-
           lar and genial young man.

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