Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Douglass Forster




Husband John Douglass Forster 1

            AKA: John Douglass Foster 2
           Born: 12 Oct 1866 1
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         Father: Benjamin Law Forster (1834-      ) 1 3
         Mother: Annie Bull Alricks (1838-1888) 1 2





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General Notes: Husband - John Douglass Forster


A civil engineer, he was educated in Harrisburg Academy and Lehigh University; was employed on the Clinch Valley extension and Norfolk & Western railroad, Pennsylvania railroad, and on the Second Corps Inter-Continental Railway on surveys from Quito, Ecuador, to Cusco, Peru, South America.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 254.

2 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 32.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 559.


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