Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Dr. David Gilmore Foster and Harriet Pearson




Husband Dr. David Gilmore Foster 1 2

           Born: 1852 - Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: 19 Aug 1894 2
         Buried: 


         Father: David Foster (1820-Aft 1889) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Ross (      -Aft 1889) 2 4


       Marriage: 1881 2

   Other Spouse: Phoebe Paul (Abt 1853-1879) 2 5 - 1874 2 5



Wife Harriet Pearson 2 5

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         Father: George R. Pearson (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Mary Elliott (      -      ) 5




Children
1 F Annie Elliott Foster 5 6

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2 F Elizabeth Ross Foster 5 6

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           Died: 1 Jan 1889 5 6
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry



General Notes: Husband - Dr. David Gilmore Foster


He attended the Mansfield and Tuscarora academies, and was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his diploma in 1873, settled in Crafton the same year and became a successful practitioner.

He was a member of the Masonic fraternity beginning from 1875; was a member of Allegheny County Medical society; was a member of the Allegheny county republican committee for fifteen years, and was a delegate to the state convention that nominated Gen. Beaver for governor; was a member of the republican state committee for three years; a delegate to the national convention, held in New York in 1887, that formed the republican clubs of the National League; delegate to the national republican convention at Chicago, 1888; was a member of the R. A., the Golden Chain, the A. O. U. W., Heptasophs, the Jr. O. U. A. M., the Young Men's Tariff club of Pittsburgh, the Americus club of Pittsburgh, the Edwin Stanton club of Mansfield, and was surgeon for the Philadelphia Gas company, and consulting physician and surgeon of the Allegheny County Home; surgeon to 14th regiment N. G. Pa. He was a member of the Episcopal Church.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 426.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 189.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 398, 426, 643.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 386, 398, 426.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 386.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 190.


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