Jonas Foster

Jonas Foster

Birth: 18 May 1792

Hebron, Washington, New York, USA

Death: 8 Jan 1882

Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA

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1792

18 May

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Birth

Hebron, Washington, New York, USA

1820

29 Jun

Age: 28

Marriage to Lavina Stoddard Pierce

, , New York, USA

1850

Age: 58

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Beaver, Mahoning, Ohio

1860

Age: 68

Residence

Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio

1880

Age: 88

Residence

Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States

1882

8 Jan

Age: 89

Death

Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA

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Richard Foster 1744 – 1814

Lydia Titus 1749 – 1818

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Talcot Foster
1771 - 1838
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Samuel Foster
1774 - 1862
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Lydia Foster
1776 - 1863
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Richard Foster
1778 - 1863
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Titus Foster
1780 - 1849
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Josiah Foster
1783 -
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Huldah Foster
1785 -
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Parley Foster
1788 -
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Sibyle Foster
1790 -
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Lavina Stoddard Pierce 1797 – 1882

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Abby Phebe Foster
1821 – 1914
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Delia Louise Foster
1823 – 1860
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Lemuel Talcot Foster
1824 – 1911
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Adaline Dewolf Foster
1827 –
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Sarah Stoddard Foster
1829 – 1915
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Laura Amanda Foster
1831 – 1886
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Orinda S Foster
1841 – 1937
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When the war of 1812 broke out Jonas Foster entered the army as a fife major and was later promoted. After the close of the naval campaign on Lake Champlain, he returned home and accepted from his father the gift of 250 acre tract of land, married and settled down to farming. Later , he removed to the vicinity of the home of his brother Titus in the Balck River Valley, disposing of a portion of his land. In 1823 he located near Rochester, New York wher he lived a short time. He soon became interested in the tales told of the wonderful richeness of the still unsettled lands in Ohio and the business opportunities offered in the great lumber regions then surrounding the little hamlet of Youngstown.

On August 31, 1825 Mr. Foster emigrant wagon reached Youngstown and with Mahoing Co his interestes remained thoughout the rest of his long life. He ran sawmills, bought and sold property and was a type of the energetic, enterprising man whose example is a stimulus most diesired in any new locality. In 1852 he bought a tract of land not far from Youngstown, containing 151 1/4 acres for which he paid the sum of $5,000.00. Here he carried on extensive farming and in his manhood he was an old line Whig and later became a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party

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married on 29 - Jun - 1820