Edwin Elisha Foster was the son of Orlando Foster and Sophia E. Leslie.
He married Bertine E. Miller on 14 Oct 1915 in Cuyahoga Co., OH.
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Excerpts from Chronicle-Telegram July 1, 1967
The Genealogy Corner: #49 by Orville Manes
Edwin Foster, 95, is living county history
Oldest living graduate of Elyria High School, last surviving member of the first EHS football tam and virtual embodiment of the history of Lorain County is Edwin Elisha Foster, 95, of 132 Cleveland Avenue, Amherst.
Mr. Foster is a direct descendant of Elisha Foster, originally from Vermont who came by ox-cart from Herkimer, N.Y. to Lorain County in 1815 and also a descendant of Ezekial Barnes, an early pioneer settler.
His first eight years of school, Ed attended East Quarry Road grade school. In 1891 he was graduated from Amherst Central High School, giving a graduation oration of "Idleness and Industry". Amherst High was then only a three-year school, and did not offer Latin or advanced math, and Ed needed Latin to be an attorney. So in the fall of 1891, he enrolled in Elyria High School, graduating two years later. For Ed, going to Elyria High meant getting up early, doing farm chores, walking to miles to the Amherst train station, riding the train to Elyria, and then walking to school from the Elyria station. Though he reports he was a member of EHS first football team, Mrs. Foster concedes, "it wasn't much of a team". They played Oberlin and Wooster College. There were 24 students in the 1893 graduating class. Mr. Foster still has the original program, which says this was EMH's 29th commencement.
After High School, Mr. Foster read law for three years in the offices of Charles Metcalf and Horace G. Reddington. Then due to illness, he had to give up his legal studies. For a while he worked on the docks in Lorain. He climbed poles for the first telephone company in Amherst and laid track for the first street car lines in the town.
In 1910, he became Clerk of the Amherst Township School Board, serving 22 years. In 1912, he was chosen Justice of the Peace, continuing in office until 1936. And in 1916 he was elected Mayor, a position he held four years. From 1932 to 1936, he was Amherst's Postmaster. Along with all these activities, for 20 years he was an Amherst correspondent for a Cleveland newspaper. His biggest story was the Amherst train wreck of 1916 which killed 27 and injured 50. When the Amherst Park Bank failed in 1936 and was taken over the state, Mr. Foster was named liquidator. He worked nine years on this project and saw that every depositor was paid back in full, and with five percent interest.
In 1915 Mr. Foster married a lovely young school teacher from Cleveland, Bertine Miller, and brought her to live in the home he had built at 232 Cleveland Avenue. He has one glum observation, not on the marriage, but on the house. In 52 years, the taxes have gone up from $36 to $245. But the location is right. Amherst Hospital on the east and on the other side is a filling station to which Mr. Foster goes each evening to smoke his after dinner cigar and visit with friends.
In 95 years, Mr. foster has gone from talking to people who had problems with Indians to people thinking in terms of traffic to the moon. This has taken a conspicuous amount of adjustment. "It seems to me," says Mr. Foster. "Lorain County is my youth was more solid, more fundamental. Now, its everybody give me something."
Probably, its that almost 700 per cent increase in taxes that has been hardest to take.
(Note: Edwin Foster died in 1968 at the age of 96.)
Obituary, Nov. 28, 1968, "The Amherst News-Times", (Amherst, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 8
Obituary, Nov. 26, 1968, "The Lorain Journal", (Lorain, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 0
Obituary, Nov. 27, 1968, "The Circleville Herald", (Circleville, Pickaway Co., OH), Page: 9
FORMER MAYOR OF AMHERST DIES
AMHERST, OHIO (AP) - Edwin Elisha Foster, former Amherst mayor, postmaster and justice of the peace, died Monday at his home following a sudden illness. He was 96.
Foster was a former correspondent for the old Lorain Daily News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His stories and pictures of the great Amherst train wreck in April, 1916, appeared in newspaper across the country.
He married Bertine E. Miller on 14 Oct 1915 in Cuyahoga Co., OH.
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Excerpts from Chronicle-Telegram July 1, 1967
The Genealogy Corner: #49 by Orville Manes
Edwin Foster, 95, is living county history
Oldest living graduate of Elyria High School, last surviving member of the first EHS football tam and virtual embodiment of the history of Lorain County is Edwin Elisha Foster, 95, of 132 Cleveland Avenue, Amherst.
Mr. Foster is a direct descendant of Elisha Foster, originally from Vermont who came by ox-cart from Herkimer, N.Y. to Lorain County in 1815 and also a descendant of Ezekial Barnes, an early pioneer settler.
His first eight years of school, Ed attended East Quarry Road grade school. In 1891 he was graduated from Amherst Central High School, giving a graduation oration of "Idleness and Industry". Amherst High was then only a three-year school, and did not offer Latin or advanced math, and Ed needed Latin to be an attorney. So in the fall of 1891, he enrolled in Elyria High School, graduating two years later. For Ed, going to Elyria High meant getting up early, doing farm chores, walking to miles to the Amherst train station, riding the train to Elyria, and then walking to school from the Elyria station. Though he reports he was a member of EHS first football team, Mrs. Foster concedes, "it wasn't much of a team". They played Oberlin and Wooster College. There were 24 students in the 1893 graduating class. Mr. Foster still has the original program, which says this was EMH's 29th commencement.
After High School, Mr. Foster read law for three years in the offices of Charles Metcalf and Horace G. Reddington. Then due to illness, he had to give up his legal studies. For a while he worked on the docks in Lorain. He climbed poles for the first telephone company in Amherst and laid track for the first street car lines in the town.
In 1910, he became Clerk of the Amherst Township School Board, serving 22 years. In 1912, he was chosen Justice of the Peace, continuing in office until 1936. And in 1916 he was elected Mayor, a position he held four years. From 1932 to 1936, he was Amherst's Postmaster. Along with all these activities, for 20 years he was an Amherst correspondent for a Cleveland newspaper. His biggest story was the Amherst train wreck of 1916 which killed 27 and injured 50. When the Amherst Park Bank failed in 1936 and was taken over the state, Mr. Foster was named liquidator. He worked nine years on this project and saw that every depositor was paid back in full, and with five percent interest.
In 1915 Mr. Foster married a lovely young school teacher from Cleveland, Bertine Miller, and brought her to live in the home he had built at 232 Cleveland Avenue. He has one glum observation, not on the marriage, but on the house. In 52 years, the taxes have gone up from $36 to $245. But the location is right. Amherst Hospital on the east and on the other side is a filling station to which Mr. Foster goes each evening to smoke his after dinner cigar and visit with friends.
In 95 years, Mr. foster has gone from talking to people who had problems with Indians to people thinking in terms of traffic to the moon. This has taken a conspicuous amount of adjustment. "It seems to me," says Mr. Foster. "Lorain County is my youth was more solid, more fundamental. Now, its everybody give me something."
Probably, its that almost 700 per cent increase in taxes that has been hardest to take.
(Note: Edwin Foster died in 1968 at the age of 96.)
Obituary, Nov. 28, 1968, "The Amherst News-Times", (Amherst, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 8
Obituary, Nov. 26, 1968, "The Lorain Journal", (Lorain, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 0
Obituary, Nov. 27, 1968, "The Circleville Herald", (Circleville, Pickaway Co., OH), Page: 9
FORMER MAYOR OF AMHERST DIES
AMHERST, OHIO (AP) - Edwin Elisha Foster, former Amherst mayor, postmaster and justice of the peace, died Monday at his home following a sudden illness. He was 96.
Foster was a former correspondent for the old Lorain Daily News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His stories and pictures of the great Amherst train wreck in April, 1916, appeared in newspaper across the country.
Edwin Elisha Foster was the son of Orlando Foster and Sophia E. Leslie.
He married Bertine E. Miller on 14 Oct 1915 in Cuyahoga Co., OH.
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Excerpts from Chronicle-Telegram July 1, 1967
The Genealogy Corner: #49 by Orville Manes
Edwin Foster, 95, is living county history
Oldest living graduate of Elyria High School, last surviving member of the first EHS football tam and virtual embodiment of the history of Lorain County is Edwin Elisha Foster, 95, of 132 Cleveland Avenue, Amherst.
Mr. Foster is a direct descendant of Elisha Foster, originally from Vermont who came by ox-cart from Herkimer, N.Y. to Lorain County in 1815 and also a descendant of Ezekial Barnes, an early pioneer settler.
His first eight years of school, Ed attended East Quarry Road grade school. In 1891 he was graduated from Amherst Central High School, giving a graduation oration of "Idleness and Industry". Amherst High was then only a three-year school, and did not offer Latin or advanced math, and Ed needed Latin to be an attorney. So in the fall of 1891, he enrolled in Elyria High School, graduating two years later. For Ed, going to Elyria High meant getting up early, doing farm chores, walking to miles to the Amherst train station, riding the train to Elyria, and then walking to school from the Elyria station. Though he reports he was a member of EHS first football team, Mrs. Foster concedes, "it wasn't much of a team". They played Oberlin and Wooster College. There were 24 students in the 1893 graduating class. Mr. Foster still has the original program, which says this was EMH's 29th commencement.
After High School, Mr. Foster read law for three years in the offices of Charles Metcalf and Horace G. Reddington. Then due to illness, he had to give up his legal studies. For a while he worked on the docks in Lorain. He climbed poles for the first telephone company in Amherst and laid track for the first street car lines in the town.
In 1910, he became Clerk of the Amherst Township School Board, serving 22 years. In 1912, he was chosen Justice of the Peace, continuing in office until 1936. And in 1916 he was elected Mayor, a position he held four years. From 1932 to 1936, he was Amherst's Postmaster. Along with all these activities, for 20 years he was an Amherst correspondent for a Cleveland newspaper. His biggest story was the Amherst train wreck of 1916 which killed 27 and injured 50. When the Amherst Park Bank failed in 1936 and was taken over the state, Mr. Foster was named liquidator. He worked nine years on this project and saw that every depositor was paid back in full, and with five percent interest.
In 1915 Mr. Foster married a lovely young school teacher from Cleveland, Bertine Miller, and brought her to live in the home he had built at 232 Cleveland Avenue. He has one glum observation, not on the marriage, but on the house. In 52 years, the taxes have gone up from $36 to $245. But the location is right. Amherst Hospital on the east and on the other side is a filling station to which Mr. Foster goes each evening to smoke his after dinner cigar and visit with friends.
In 95 years, Mr. foster has gone from talking to people who had problems with Indians to people thinking in terms of traffic to the moon. This has taken a conspicuous amount of adjustment. "It seems to me," says Mr. Foster. "Lorain County is my youth was more solid, more fundamental. Now, its everybody give me something."
Probably, its that almost 700 per cent increase in taxes that has been hardest to take.
(Note: Edwin Foster died in 1968 at the age of 96.)
Obituary, Nov. 28, 1968, "The Amherst News-Times", (Amherst, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 8
Obituary, Nov. 26, 1968, "The Lorain Journal", (Lorain, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 0
Obituary, Nov. 27, 1968, "The Circleville Herald", (Circleville, Pickaway Co., OH), Page: 9
FORMER MAYOR OF AMHERST DIES
AMHERST, OHIO (AP) - Edwin Elisha Foster, former Amherst mayor, postmaster and justice of the peace, died Monday at his home following a sudden illness. He was 96.
Foster was a former correspondent for the old Lorain Daily News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His stories and pictures of the great Amherst train wreck in April, 1916, appeared in newspaper across the country.
He married Bertine E. Miller on 14 Oct 1915 in Cuyahoga Co., OH.
#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*
Excerpts from Chronicle-Telegram July 1, 1967
The Genealogy Corner: #49 by Orville Manes
Edwin Foster, 95, is living county history
Oldest living graduate of Elyria High School, last surviving member of the first EHS football tam and virtual embodiment of the history of Lorain County is Edwin Elisha Foster, 95, of 132 Cleveland Avenue, Amherst.
Mr. Foster is a direct descendant of Elisha Foster, originally from Vermont who came by ox-cart from Herkimer, N.Y. to Lorain County in 1815 and also a descendant of Ezekial Barnes, an early pioneer settler.
His first eight years of school, Ed attended East Quarry Road grade school. In 1891 he was graduated from Amherst Central High School, giving a graduation oration of "Idleness and Industry". Amherst High was then only a three-year school, and did not offer Latin or advanced math, and Ed needed Latin to be an attorney. So in the fall of 1891, he enrolled in Elyria High School, graduating two years later. For Ed, going to Elyria High meant getting up early, doing farm chores, walking to miles to the Amherst train station, riding the train to Elyria, and then walking to school from the Elyria station. Though he reports he was a member of EHS first football team, Mrs. Foster concedes, "it wasn't much of a team". They played Oberlin and Wooster College. There were 24 students in the 1893 graduating class. Mr. Foster still has the original program, which says this was EMH's 29th commencement.
After High School, Mr. Foster read law for three years in the offices of Charles Metcalf and Horace G. Reddington. Then due to illness, he had to give up his legal studies. For a while he worked on the docks in Lorain. He climbed poles for the first telephone company in Amherst and laid track for the first street car lines in the town.
In 1910, he became Clerk of the Amherst Township School Board, serving 22 years. In 1912, he was chosen Justice of the Peace, continuing in office until 1936. And in 1916 he was elected Mayor, a position he held four years. From 1932 to 1936, he was Amherst's Postmaster. Along with all these activities, for 20 years he was an Amherst correspondent for a Cleveland newspaper. His biggest story was the Amherst train wreck of 1916 which killed 27 and injured 50. When the Amherst Park Bank failed in 1936 and was taken over the state, Mr. Foster was named liquidator. He worked nine years on this project and saw that every depositor was paid back in full, and with five percent interest.
In 1915 Mr. Foster married a lovely young school teacher from Cleveland, Bertine Miller, and brought her to live in the home he had built at 232 Cleveland Avenue. He has one glum observation, not on the marriage, but on the house. In 52 years, the taxes have gone up from $36 to $245. But the location is right. Amherst Hospital on the east and on the other side is a filling station to which Mr. Foster goes each evening to smoke his after dinner cigar and visit with friends.
In 95 years, Mr. foster has gone from talking to people who had problems with Indians to people thinking in terms of traffic to the moon. This has taken a conspicuous amount of adjustment. "It seems to me," says Mr. Foster. "Lorain County is my youth was more solid, more fundamental. Now, its everybody give me something."
Probably, its that almost 700 per cent increase in taxes that has been hardest to take.
(Note: Edwin Foster died in 1968 at the age of 96.)
Obituary, Nov. 28, 1968, "The Amherst News-Times", (Amherst, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 8
Obituary, Nov. 26, 1968, "The Lorain Journal", (Lorain, Lorain Co., OH), Page: 0
Obituary, Nov. 27, 1968, "The Circleville Herald", (Circleville, Pickaway Co., OH), Page: 9
FORMER MAYOR OF AMHERST DIES
AMHERST, OHIO (AP) - Edwin Elisha Foster, former Amherst mayor, postmaster and justice of the peace, died Monday at his home following a sudden illness. He was 96.
Foster was a former correspondent for the old Lorain Daily News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His stories and pictures of the great Amherst train wreck in April, 1916, appeared in newspaper across the country.
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