Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio;
F. H. FOSTER, member of the flourishing clothing firm of Baker & Foster, Elyria, was born in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, December 7, 1849, a son of I. B. and Hannah (Taylor) Foster, natives of Tompkins county, N. Y., the father born September 12, 1822, died July 7, 1882, and the latter born March 2, 1828, in Penfield, died February 4, 1890.
Both parents were reared on farms, and received common-school educations. They were married in their native county, and moved westward to Ohio, settling in Carlisle township, Lorain county, about the year 1847. They had four children, F. H.; Frederick K., now a farmer at Saint John's, Clinton Co., Mich.; DeWitt, a farmer, now residing at Oberlin, Ohio; and Charles H., a clerk with the firm of Baker & Foster. Our subject's paternal
£ were both natives of New York State, where they passed their entire lives, and were descended from old Massachusetts stock.
The maternal grandparents were of the same nativity, and the grandmother is yet living, now at the ad. vanced age of eighty-four years.
I. B. Foster, father of subject, was by trade a carpenter and joiner and cabinet maker. After coming to Lorain county he followed the business of contracting and building, was recognized as a first. class mechanic, and had in his employ at times as many as thirty hands. His health failing, however, he abandoned this line of trade, taking up fruit culture, including tree grafting, and also carried on a mer. cantile business in a small way at La Porte, in Lorain county, up to the time of his death, which occurred at his home in LaPorte. He was very active in busines, and made a success of it. In politics he was a strong Republican, and apronounced temperance advocate and Abolitionist,
often concealing in his house run-away slaves during the “Underground Railroad”.
His wife was a slight, delicate woman, and, like her husband, was possessed of strong religious convictions. They were married November 1, 1846. F. H. Foster, subject of these lines, remained with his parents till he was nineteen years old, attending during the winter months the schools of LaPorte, Lorain county, and working in the summer set son. He got some ideas of mercantile business in his father's store, and always had an ambition to lead a commercial life At the age of nineteen he left the paternal roof, and proceeded to Oberlin, in the same county, where he entered the employ of J. M. Johnson & Son, with whom he remained two years and four months; then came to Elyria, and for seven years clerked with Starr Brothers & Co., general merchants. In both these houses Mr. Foster filled positions with ability and energy in all departments, and during the last three or four years he was with the last named firm he had charge of the clothing and manufacturing of clothing, becoming a thorough expert in all the departments of that branch of the business.
Leaving the firm of Starr Brothers & Co. on account of their going out of business, he entered into an equal partnership with G. W. Baker, under the firm name of Baker & Foster, and in 1878 they bought out the clothing department of Baldwin, Lersch & Co.; since then they have been the leading clothiers in Elyria. Both are admirably adapted to the trade, having had long experience in the business, and being well known to the public. They commenced in a careful, conservative way, and as business increased enlarged their premises, making three additions to their rooms; after which they bought out Cogswell & Co., and added their late room to their own store. Mr. Foster is one of the best buyers and salesmen to be found anywhere, and in discretion and judgment in both buying and selling he has no superior in the State. He does all the buying for the firm.
Mr. Foster was married, November 1, 1871, to Miss Emma Inez Prindle, a native of Carlisle township, Lorain county, born October 6, 1851. She is a daughter of H. H. and Christians. Elizabeth (‘Spatford) Prindle, the former of whom was born about the year 1822 in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he lived and died, the latter born in Richfield, Summit Co., Ohio, January 13, 1822, and died at Elyria, Ohio, October 13, 1885, aged sixty-three years, eight months and twenty-eight days. Mrs. Emma Inez Foster was educated in the country schools till the age of fourteen, when she came to Elyria to attend the high school there, making her home during that time with her grandparents. She is the mother of two children; Clarence H. born October 21 1877, and Maude Inez, born December 17 1881.
Politically, Mr. Foster is a Republican, socially, he is a Master Mason and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He is interested in the Independent Horse & Cattle Co., at North Park Colorado, and for recreation and the benefit of his health, he makes frequent trips to that place. He and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church."
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F. H. FOSTER, member of the flourishing clothing firm of Baker & Foster, Elyria, was born in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, December 7, 1849, a son of I. B. and Hannah (Taylor) Foster, natives of Tompkins county, N. Y., the father born September 12, 1822, died July 7, 1882, and the latter born March 2, 1828, in Penfield, died February 4, 1890.
Both parents were reared on farms, and received common-school educations. They were married in their native county, and moved westward to Ohio, settling in Carlisle township, Lorain county, about the year 1847. They had four children, F. H.; Frederick K., now a farmer at Saint John's, Clinton Co., Mich.; DeWitt, a farmer, now residing at Oberlin, Ohio; and Charles H., a clerk with the firm of Baker & Foster. Our subject's paternal
£ were both natives of New York State, where they passed their entire lives, and were descended from old Massachusetts stock.
The maternal grandparents were of the same nativity, and the grandmother is yet living, now at the ad. vanced age of eighty-four years.
I. B. Foster, father of subject, was by trade a carpenter and joiner and cabinet maker. After coming to Lorain county he followed the business of contracting and building, was recognized as a first. class mechanic, and had in his employ at times as many as thirty hands. His health failing, however, he abandoned this line of trade, taking up fruit culture, including tree grafting, and also carried on a mer. cantile business in a small way at La Porte, in Lorain county, up to the time of his death, which occurred at his home in LaPorte. He was very active in busines, and made a success of it. In politics he was a strong Republican, and apronounced temperance advocate and Abolitionist,
often concealing in his house run-away slaves during the “Underground Railroad”.
His wife was a slight, delicate woman, and, like her husband, was possessed of strong religious convictions. They were married November 1, 1846. F. H. Foster, subject of these lines, remained with his parents till he was nineteen years old, attending during the winter months the schools of LaPorte, Lorain county, and working in the summer set son. He got some ideas of mercantile business in his father's store, and always had an ambition to lead a commercial life At the age of nineteen he left the paternal roof, and proceeded to Oberlin, in the same county, where he entered the employ of J. M. Johnson & Son, with whom he remained two years and four months; then came to Elyria, and for seven years clerked with Starr Brothers & Co., general merchants. In both these houses Mr. Foster filled positions with ability and energy in all departments, and during the last three or four years he was with the last named firm he had charge of the clothing and manufacturing of clothing, becoming a thorough expert in all the departments of that branch of the business.
Leaving the firm of Starr Brothers & Co. on account of their going out of business, he entered into an equal partnership with G. W. Baker, under the firm name of Baker & Foster, and in 1878 they bought out the clothing department of Baldwin, Lersch & Co.; since then they have been the leading clothiers in Elyria. Both are admirably adapted to the trade, having had long experience in the business, and being well known to the public. They commenced in a careful, conservative way, and as business increased enlarged their premises, making three additions to their rooms; after which they bought out Cogswell & Co., and added their late room to their own store. Mr. Foster is one of the best buyers and salesmen to be found anywhere, and in discretion and judgment in both buying and selling he has no superior in the State. He does all the buying for the firm.
Mr. Foster was married, November 1, 1871, to Miss Emma Inez Prindle, a native of Carlisle township, Lorain county, born October 6, 1851. She is a daughter of H. H. and Christians. Elizabeth (‘Spatford) Prindle, the former of whom was born about the year 1822 in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he lived and died, the latter born in Richfield, Summit Co., Ohio, January 13, 1822, and died at Elyria, Ohio, October 13, 1885, aged sixty-three years, eight months and twenty-eight days. Mrs. Emma Inez Foster was educated in the country schools till the age of fourteen, when she came to Elyria to attend the high school there, making her home during that time with her grandparents. She is the mother of two children; Clarence H. born October 21 1877, and Maude Inez, born December 17 1881.
Politically, Mr. Foster is a Republican, socially, he is a Master Mason and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He is interested in the Independent Horse & Cattle Co., at North Park Colorado, and for recreation and the benefit of his health, he makes frequent trips to that place. He and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church."
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Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio;
F. H. FOSTER, member of the flourishing clothing firm of Baker & Foster, Elyria, was born in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, December 7, 1849, a son of I. B. and Hannah (Taylor) Foster, natives of Tompkins county, N. Y., the father born September 12, 1822, died July 7, 1882, and the latter born March 2, 1828, in Penfield, died February 4, 1890.
Both parents were reared on farms, and received common-school educations. They were married in their native county, and moved westward to Ohio, settling in Carlisle township, Lorain county, about the year 1847. They had four children, F. H.; Frederick K., now a farmer at Saint John's, Clinton Co., Mich.; DeWitt, a farmer, now residing at Oberlin, Ohio; and Charles H., a clerk with the firm of Baker & Foster. Our subject's paternal
£ were both natives of New York State, where they passed their entire lives, and were descended from old Massachusetts stock.
The maternal grandparents were of the same nativity, and the grandmother is yet living, now at the ad. vanced age of eighty-four years.
I. B. Foster, father of subject, was by trade a carpenter and joiner and cabinet maker. After coming to Lorain county he followed the business of contracting and building, was recognized as a first. class mechanic, and had in his employ at times as many as thirty hands. His health failing, however, he abandoned this line of trade, taking up fruit culture, including tree grafting, and also carried on a mer. cantile business in a small way at La Porte, in Lorain county, up to the time of his death, which occurred at his home in LaPorte. He was very active in busines, and made a success of it. In politics he was a strong Republican, and apronounced temperance advocate and Abolitionist,
often concealing in his house run-away slaves during the “Underground Railroad”.
His wife was a slight, delicate woman, and, like her husband, was possessed of strong religious convictions. They were married November 1, 1846. F. H. Foster, subject of these lines, remained with his parents till he was nineteen years old, attending during the winter months the schools of LaPorte, Lorain county, and working in the summer set son. He got some ideas of mercantile business in his father's store, and always had an ambition to lead a commercial life At the age of nineteen he left the paternal roof, and proceeded to Oberlin, in the same county, where he entered the employ of J. M. Johnson & Son, with whom he remained two years and four months; then came to Elyria, and for seven years clerked with Starr Brothers & Co., general merchants. In both these houses Mr. Foster filled positions with ability and energy in all departments, and during the last three or four years he was with the last named firm he had charge of the clothing and manufacturing of clothing, becoming a thorough expert in all the departments of that branch of the business.
Leaving the firm of Starr Brothers & Co. on account of their going out of business, he entered into an equal partnership with G. W. Baker, under the firm name of Baker & Foster, and in 1878 they bought out the clothing department of Baldwin, Lersch & Co.; since then they have been the leading clothiers in Elyria. Both are admirably adapted to the trade, having had long experience in the business, and being well known to the public. They commenced in a careful, conservative way, and as business increased enlarged their premises, making three additions to their rooms; after which they bought out Cogswell & Co., and added their late room to their own store. Mr. Foster is one of the best buyers and salesmen to be found anywhere, and in discretion and judgment in both buying and selling he has no superior in the State. He does all the buying for the firm.
Mr. Foster was married, November 1, 1871, to Miss Emma Inez Prindle, a native of Carlisle township, Lorain county, born October 6, 1851. She is a daughter of H. H. and Christians. Elizabeth (‘Spatford) Prindle, the former of whom was born about the year 1822 in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he lived and died, the latter born in Richfield, Summit Co., Ohio, January 13, 1822, and died at Elyria, Ohio, October 13, 1885, aged sixty-three years, eight months and twenty-eight days. Mrs. Emma Inez Foster was educated in the country schools till the age of fourteen, when she came to Elyria to attend the high school there, making her home during that time with her grandparents. She is the mother of two children; Clarence H. born October 21 1877, and Maude Inez, born December 17 1881.
Politically, Mr. Foster is a Republican, socially, he is a Master Mason and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He is interested in the Independent Horse & Cattle Co., at North Park Colorado, and for recreation and the benefit of his health, he makes frequent trips to that place. He and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church."
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F. H. FOSTER, member of the flourishing clothing firm of Baker & Foster, Elyria, was born in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, December 7, 1849, a son of I. B. and Hannah (Taylor) Foster, natives of Tompkins county, N. Y., the father born September 12, 1822, died July 7, 1882, and the latter born March 2, 1828, in Penfield, died February 4, 1890.
Both parents were reared on farms, and received common-school educations. They were married in their native county, and moved westward to Ohio, settling in Carlisle township, Lorain county, about the year 1847. They had four children, F. H.; Frederick K., now a farmer at Saint John's, Clinton Co., Mich.; DeWitt, a farmer, now residing at Oberlin, Ohio; and Charles H., a clerk with the firm of Baker & Foster. Our subject's paternal
£ were both natives of New York State, where they passed their entire lives, and were descended from old Massachusetts stock.
The maternal grandparents were of the same nativity, and the grandmother is yet living, now at the ad. vanced age of eighty-four years.
I. B. Foster, father of subject, was by trade a carpenter and joiner and cabinet maker. After coming to Lorain county he followed the business of contracting and building, was recognized as a first. class mechanic, and had in his employ at times as many as thirty hands. His health failing, however, he abandoned this line of trade, taking up fruit culture, including tree grafting, and also carried on a mer. cantile business in a small way at La Porte, in Lorain county, up to the time of his death, which occurred at his home in LaPorte. He was very active in busines, and made a success of it. In politics he was a strong Republican, and apronounced temperance advocate and Abolitionist,
often concealing in his house run-away slaves during the “Underground Railroad”.
His wife was a slight, delicate woman, and, like her husband, was possessed of strong religious convictions. They were married November 1, 1846. F. H. Foster, subject of these lines, remained with his parents till he was nineteen years old, attending during the winter months the schools of LaPorte, Lorain county, and working in the summer set son. He got some ideas of mercantile business in his father's store, and always had an ambition to lead a commercial life At the age of nineteen he left the paternal roof, and proceeded to Oberlin, in the same county, where he entered the employ of J. M. Johnson & Son, with whom he remained two years and four months; then came to Elyria, and for seven years clerked with Starr Brothers & Co., general merchants. In both these houses Mr. Foster filled positions with ability and energy in all departments, and during the last three or four years he was with the last named firm he had charge of the clothing and manufacturing of clothing, becoming a thorough expert in all the departments of that branch of the business.
Leaving the firm of Starr Brothers & Co. on account of their going out of business, he entered into an equal partnership with G. W. Baker, under the firm name of Baker & Foster, and in 1878 they bought out the clothing department of Baldwin, Lersch & Co.; since then they have been the leading clothiers in Elyria. Both are admirably adapted to the trade, having had long experience in the business, and being well known to the public. They commenced in a careful, conservative way, and as business increased enlarged their premises, making three additions to their rooms; after which they bought out Cogswell & Co., and added their late room to their own store. Mr. Foster is one of the best buyers and salesmen to be found anywhere, and in discretion and judgment in both buying and selling he has no superior in the State. He does all the buying for the firm.
Mr. Foster was married, November 1, 1871, to Miss Emma Inez Prindle, a native of Carlisle township, Lorain county, born October 6, 1851. She is a daughter of H. H. and Christians. Elizabeth (‘Spatford) Prindle, the former of whom was born about the year 1822 in Carlisle township, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he lived and died, the latter born in Richfield, Summit Co., Ohio, January 13, 1822, and died at Elyria, Ohio, October 13, 1885, aged sixty-three years, eight months and twenty-eight days. Mrs. Emma Inez Foster was educated in the country schools till the age of fourteen, when she came to Elyria to attend the high school there, making her home during that time with her grandparents. She is the mother of two children; Clarence H. born October 21 1877, and Maude Inez, born December 17 1881.
Politically, Mr. Foster is a Republican, socially, he is a Master Mason and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He is interested in the Independent Horse & Cattle Co., at North Park Colorado, and for recreation and the benefit of his health, he makes frequent trips to that place. He and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church."
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