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but he did his work with an application and vigor that surprised the younger and more vigorous members of the profession.

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He was greatly interested in the formation of the Southern Bar Association from its inception, and was elected its first vice-president. He was afterward elected president and served from February, 1893, to February, 1894. His impres

sive and feeling remarks before this Association upon several occasions will long linger in the memory of all who heard them.

He left surviving him the following children: Elizabeth Bradbury, widow of Hon. Edgar H. Woodman; Mary Bartlett, wife of Lieutenant Marshall; William Hamilton Foster, and Roger Elliott Foster.

In conclusion it may be said that he was in every sense of the word a true lawyer, willing and anxious to devote his entire life to the development of the jurisprudence of his country. This was his ambition, and in its pursuit he was signally successful and has left an example of the highest excellence to all who honor and respect the profession of the law.

He d., Rye Beach, Aug. 13, 1897. Res., Concord, N. H.

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ELIZABETH BRADLEY, b. 1857; m. Hon. Edgar H. Woodman.
MARY BARTLETT, b. 1859; m. Lieut. William A. Marshall.
WILLIAM HAMILTON, b. Aug. 27, 1861; m. Alcina E. Gordon.
ROGER ELLIOTT, b. Sept. 12, 1867.

6602. HON. ASA BREED FOSTER (Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Samuel, Samuel, John), b. March 28, 1795; m. Abigail Keyes, b. Aug. 11, 1804; d. Jan. 31, 1890.

Asa Breed Foster, eldest child of Samuel and Anna Breed Foster, was born at Nelson, N. H., from which town Samuel Foster removed to Weston, Windsor County, Vt., about 1801. At the age of eleven years Asa B. Foster left home and thereafter supported himself. He returned to Weston in 1822, and the following year married Abigail Keyes, daughter of James Keyes, who was the first white child born in the adjoining town of Andover. He engaged in the retail trade, which he conducted for over thirty years, and eventually became financially interested in almost all of the industries of that locality. He was a director of the Black River Bank of Proctorsville, and of the West River Bank of Jamaica from their incorporation to the date of his death. He was treasurer of the town of Weston from 1838 to 1840, and from 1847 to 1867; selectman from 1838 to 1840, and from 1849 to 1853; trustee of deposit moneys from 1847 to 1852, and from 1857 to 1867; auditor from 1833 to 1837, and justice of the peace for several terms. In 1834 he was a candidate for Congress of the United States from his district. He was a representative to the General Assembly of Vermont from Weston in the years 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1850; a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, and senator from Windsor County in 1851 and 1852. He died at Weston. His wife survived him almost twenty years, and died at Pittsford, Vt. He d. May 23, 1870. Res., Windsor, Vt.

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MARY LOUISE, b. Dec. 9. 1824: d. Feb. 28, 1842.
ASA GILBERT, b. Dec. 29, 1826; m. Martha J. Ross.
JAMES HENRY, b. April 11, 1829; m. Eliza Talbot and Mary
Dimock.

ANNETTE NANCY, b. April 30. 1833; m. Newell Hubbard, b.
May 20, 1828; d. Nov. 28. 1870. She d. s. p., April 11, 1869.
SARAH CAROLINE, b. Jan. 10, 1836; d. Feb. 10, 1836.
AGNES JANE, b. July 6, 1838; m. Azro Buckmaster Dickerman,
who died June 26, 1887. Her eldest child was a daughter, Mary
Louise Dickerman, who married Myron Clarence Holden, and
who has four children: 1. Lucy Agnes, b. Jan. 16, 1888.
Bertha Annette, b. May 29, 1890. 3. David Azro, b. Aug. 3. 1892.
4. Morris James, b. July 30, 1805. The only other child of Agnes
and Azro B. Dickerman is a son, Morris Warren Dickerman, b.
May 5, 1865, who is unmarried, and resides at Rutland, Vt.

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6610. DANIEL FOSTER (Daniel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Samuel, Samuel, John), b. Andover, Mass., Jan. 15, 1792; m., July 18, 1815, Bethiah Heywood. She was dau. of Jabez Howard or Haward, spelled Hayward, and Abigail Graves. This family moved to Andover near Daniel Foster's folks on a Chandler farm, about 1798, from Reading where they had lived for generations after moving from Beverly at the start. He d. Jan. 15, 1826. Res., Andover, Mass.

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DANIEL BROOKS, b. Feb. 2, 1816.

CATHERINE, b. September, 1819; m. Benjamin Cutler, of
Temple, N. H.

6617. GEORGE FOSTER (Daniel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Samuel, Samuel, John), b. Andover, Mass., June 21, 1810; m. there, Feb. 8, 1835, Rebecca H. Abbott, b. July 12, 1811; d. Feb. 23, 1862; m., 2d, Dec. 31, 1863, Elvira A. Hussey. He d. in the Lawrence, Massachusetts, hospital from injuries sustained in a railway accident, Oct. 24, 1885. Res., Andover, Mass.

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REBECCA GEORGIETTE, b. April 21, 1836; m., Dec. 1, 1859, E.
H. Quimby, of Salem. She d. Sept. 12, 1893.

GEORGE WHITEFIELD, b. May 21, 1847; m. Bella J. Weeks.
MARY C., b. Aug. 6, 1844; d. unm., Feb. 29, 1880.

6618. REV. AARON FOSTER (Aaron, Jonathan, Jonathan, Samuel, Samuel, John), b. Hillsboro, N. H., March 19, 1794; m., Corinth, N. H., Aug. 12, 1829, Dorothy Ashley Leavitt. Aaron Foster, the eldest child of Aaron and Mehitable Foster, was born in Hillsboro, N. H.. March 19, 1794. He fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1822, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1825. To him is ascribed, while at Andover, the organizing of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society; and in the autumn of 1825, he entered its service as one of its first missionaries, and sailed for South Carolina, where he was settled over two churches in Lawrence and Abbeville districts, and the next year over three churches that were forty miles apart; the third year, going to Pendleton, his churches were sixty miles distant from each other. It is needless to say he was one of the best of horsemen through life. In 1828 he had the singular experience of having his horse instantly killed by lightning while driving near Charleston. In 1829 he drove north, in company with his parishoner, Vice-President John C. Calhoun; and in Cornish, N. H., on Aug. 12, married Dorothy Ashley Leavitt-their wedding journey was a drive of six weeks, with one horse, to their parish in Pendleton, S. C. In 1832 they returned north, having, on the way, buried their infant son. Mr. Foster writes, "we left the south after a residence of seven years, coming away from the midst of more tears than I have ever

seen on other occasions of the parting of pastor and people. Eighteen slaves were received into the church on that last Sabbath. My influence there was much broader than it has been at any place in the free States, and I am reconciled to the idea of not having spent the ministry of my life there, only when I consider the condition of slavery in which to leave my children." His health being seriously impaired he went upon a farm in northern New York, but directly continued his ministry in Fort Covington and Constable. After ten years he went to the Robinson church in Plymouth, Mass., and subsequently to East Charlemont, Mass., where the last twenty-two years of his long ministry of forty-five years were passed-here he was known as the beloved "Father Foster of all Franklin County. He was a man of great physical and mental energy-of broad views and wide interests-of intrepid faith in God and his providences, and in Jesus Christ, his Savior. In 1851, he was sent by the American Peace Society as delegate to the World's Peace Congress in London. In 1855 he was sent to the "Constitutional Convention" at Boston, called to amend the constitution of the State, where he devoted himself successfully, to securing to women the control of their property after marriage. His acquaintance with the statesmen and public men of his time was extensive; he was a life-long correspondent of Seward, and for many years of Sumner and Dawes. But most of his life was, from choice, passed in small country parishes;

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because, he said, having a little property, he could afford to preach the gospel in small places for little pay where other men could not. Yet, notwithstanding his small income, he gave his daughters the highest education that the country then afforded. His marriage was eminently a happy one. To his wife he wrote of it after many years, "I am certain that I have realized the highest point of married happiness that my circumstances and character will admit." He died April 10, 1870, while on a visit to his daughter in Geneva, N. Y. His wife survived him twelve years. They are buried in Mount Auburn, Mass. Res., East Charlemont, Mass. GEORGE LEAVITT, b. Pendleton, S. C., Dec. 8, 1831; d. March 8, 1832.

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CATHERINE STOKES, b. Sept. 8, 1834, Fort Covington, N. Y.;
m., Sept. 11, 1855, Stephen Wait Hopkins. She d. Geneva,
N. Y., July 13, 1890.
SARAH BANCROFT, b. East Constable, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1842;
m. in Charlemont, Mass., Sept. 16, 1863, James L. Leavitt, of
New York. Res., 247 Fifth avenue.
ELIZABETH LEAVITT, b. March 5, 1840. After three years in
a private school in Boston, she entered the class of 1859 at
Mount Holyoke Seminary, but on account of illness she did not
remain to graduate. At East Charlemont, Mass., on Feb. 15,
1859, she married Rev. Samuel Fiske, of Madison, Conn. The
first three months of 1864 she passed with her husband in the
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ain on the Rapidan river, near Stevensburg, Va. Their eldest son of four years was with them. The camp was at the very front, the brigade having been thrown out beyond the regular picket line. As the Confederate troops held the opposite side of the river, the position was one of considerable danger. The following May, after Captain Fiske had received a mortal wound in

the battle of the Wilderness, and had been carried to Fredericksburg, she passed many days at his side. Sixteen months of 1888 and 1889 she spent in extensive travel in Europe with Rev. Arthur Fiske, her younger son. In the autumn of 1891, in answer to a cablegram, she made a hurried journey, alone, to Meran in the Austrian Tyrol, where the son above mentioned was stricken with an illness which proved fatal three weeks after her arrival.

Rev. Samuel Fiske graduated from Amherst College in 1848, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1851, after which he returned to Amherst College as tutor for three years. He then passed more than a year in extensive travels in Europe, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. In 1857 he was installed pastor of the Congregational church in Madison, Conn., and this relationship continued until his death. In June, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers, but received the commission of second lieutenant in company G, before leaving Hartford in August. Mr. Fiske took with him a number of young men from his parish, and his regiment served in the Second army corps to the close of the war. In December he was made first lieutenant and in the following month, captain. During the spring and summer of 1863 he was acting assisting inspector-general on the staffs of General Carroll and General Alexander Hayes of the Third division, Second corps. During the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, he was captured and taken to Libby prison. In June he was exchanged and returned to camp. In September, at his own request, he again took command of company G. He distinguished himself in several battles. He received a fatal wound in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, while at the head of his company, and died in Fredericksburg on May 22. During the time he was abroad, and also while in the army, he was a correspondent of the Springfield Republican under the nom de plume of Dunn Browne, and the letters were afterward republished in the volumes, "Dunn Browne Abroad," and "Dunn Browne in the Army.' He d. May 22, 1864. Res., Madison, Conn. Oct. 16, 1867, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Fiske (widow of Samuel) married Rev. Henry S. Kelsey, pastor of the First Congregational church in Rockville, Conn. Mr. Kelsey graduated from Amherst College in 1855; studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and also at East Windsor, Conn.; was instructor in Amherst College from 1857 to 1860; was professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy in Beloit College, Wisconsin, from 1860 to 1863; and afterward successively pastor of Congregational churches in Granby, Mass., Rockville, Conn., Holliston and Woburn, Mass., and of the College street church in New Haven, Conn. He passed the summer of 1880 traveling in Europe. He now resides in Chicago without pastoral charge. Two children were born to Rev. Samuel and Elizabeth Foster Fiske. 1. George Foster Fiske, b. Jan. 26, 1860, Madison, Conn.; m., at Peterborough, N. H., Aug. 9, 1888, Gertrude Bass, b. May 14, 1863. Ch.: (a) Samuel Bass Fiske, b. May 27, 1889, Chicago. (b) George Foster Fiske, Jr., b. Sept. 28, 1891, Chicago. (c) Clara Bass Fiske, b. Nov. 5, 1892; d. March 25, 1893. Arthur Severance Fiske, b. Sept. 19, 1862, East Charlemont, Mass. Dr. George Foster Fiske, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Foster Fiske, was born Jan. 26, 1860, in Madison, Conn. The first three months of 1864 he passed in the camp of the Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers at Stony Mountain on the Rapidan river, near Stevensburg, Va., with his parents. He fitted for college at the high school in Woburn, Mass., graduated from Amherst College in 1881, and from the Yale Medical School in 1883; spent three years in Germany and France studying ophthalmology and otology; was assistant surgeon to Prof. Alfred Graefe in the University at Halle, Prussia, in 1884-85. Settled in Chicago in 1886 as an eye and ear specialist. In 1891 he built a private hosiptal for treat

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