Robert McCay Foster and Mary Ella Snyder

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Husband Robert McCay Foster ¹

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           Born: 14 Nov 1860 - State College, Centre Co, PA 1
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         Father: Capt. Robert M. Foster (1826-Abt 1863) 1
         Mother: Delilah Smith (      -1895) 2

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       Marriage: 1893 1

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Wife Mary Ella Snyder ¹

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         Father: Thompson A. Snyder (      -      ) 1
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1 M Robert M. Foster, Jr. ³

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General Notes: Husband - Robert McCay Foster

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He was very early in life thrown upon his own resources, but with a noble mother's care, and by his own industry and economy, managed to get a good public-school education, and finally in 1878 entered Pennsylvania State College. After completing his course, he accepted the position of bookkeeper for the firm of Smith, Foster & Co., the prominent wholesale grocers of Philadelphia.
In 1896 he received nomination for member of the House of Representatives. The campaign of that year was hotly contested, and notwithstanding the Republican nominee for president, Hon. William McKinley, carrying the county by over 400 majority, he, as a candidate on the Democratic ticket, carried the county by 580. When a vacancy on the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools was caused by the death of Hon. McCauley Cook, his appointment for this position was requested by the G. A. R. The Speaker of the House, Hon. H. K. Boyer, when making this appointment said that "it gave him much pleasure to do so," owing to the fact that Mr. Foster's father, Capt. Robert M. Foster, was killed at the battle of Gettysburg. His Legislative record is above reproach. His work, pertaining to measures bearing upon educational matters, was very commendable.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 91.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 155.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 92.