FOSTER-Benjamin - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Benjamin Foster, farmer, Attica, oldest child of James & Sarah (Lewis) Foster, who was born in Franklin county Ohio, September 23 1824. His father's family settled in Shawnee township October 14 1827. Mr. Foster is living close to where they improved their home. In his lifetime he has seen the timber spring up in his neighborhood and attain full growth, the larger trees measuring from eighteen inches, to two feet in diameter, and be cut down and cleared off, and the ground brought into subjection to the plow. He was married in 1845 to Samantha Griffith, who died in 1854, having been the mother of three children, Charles (deceased). Sarah (deceased), and Mary. His second marriage was in 1855, with Sarah Jane, daughter of Samuel & Mary (Malatt) Young, who settled in Logan township in 1830, having come from Ohio. She was born November 2 1827. This union has been productive of six children. Raymond b. January 13 1856, John A. b. January 12 1859, Willard b. September 6 1860, Simon b. May 10 1862, Effie b. October 16 1864, and Oliver b. November 18 1866. Mrs. Foster is a member of the Christian Church, of twenty-seven years standing. In 1876 Mr. Foster visited the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. He has a valuable farm of 160 acres, nearly all of which he cultivates. He is a leading man among his fellows, thoroughly enterprising and public-spirited and an intelligent republican.