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About Dwight Foster, Judge & U.S. Senator
Senator Dwight Foster on wikipedia
[following downloaded 2009 from http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0213]
Judge Dwight Foster (1757-1823) was a chief justice of Worcester County, Mass., a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, the Massachusetts Legislature, and the Massachusetts Executive Council, and was a U.S. senator serving as a Federalist from 1800 to 1803. He married Rebecca Faulkner and his children were Lydia Stiles and Alfred Dwight Foster (1800-1852).
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Dwight Foster (December 7, 1757 – April 29, 1823) was an American lawyer and politician from Brookfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (the former name of Brown University) at Providence in 1774.
He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and represented Massachusetts in both the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.
Foster died in Brookfield, aged 65, and is buried in Brookfield Cemetery.
He was the brother of US Senator Theodore Foster, and was the grandfather and namesake of Dwight Foster MA.
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Dwight Foster, Judge & U.S. Senator's Timeline
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1757
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Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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1800
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https://books.google.com/books?id=ovXIlXPw8scC&pg=PA652 The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass, Volume 2
[Seventh Generation.] 4386. iv. Hon. Alfred Dwight Foster, b. at Brookfield, Mass., July 26, 1800, grad. at Harvard in 1819, studied law with Samuel M. Burnside, Esq., at Worcester. He m. Feb. 14, 1828, Lydia Stiles, b. in Templeton, Mass., Jan. 27, 1806 (dau. of John William Stiles, b. in Keene, N. H., Feb. 22, 1777, and d. in Worcester, Mass., Sept. 14, 1836, and Mary McCarty, b. in Fitchburgh, Mass., Aug. 8, 1775, and d. in Worcester, Aug. 1, 1838. She was dau. of Thaddeus McCarty, M.D., son of Rev. Thaddeus McCarty, D.D., pastor for nearly 40 years of " The Old South Ch." at Worcester. Her mother's name was Cowden, of Scotch-Irish descent like her husband.) |
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1823
Age 66
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Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
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