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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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FOSTER, D. T. CAPTAIN, who has been proprietor of the popular resort, known as the Railroad Eating House, for the past three years in Roodhouse, was born in Washington Co., Vt., July 22, 1840; parents were Elisha and Louisa Foster, natives of Vermont and New Hampshire. The father passed the remainder of his life in Indiana; his wife died in Vermont, during the Summer of same year. Captain Foster remained in Vermont until his majority. As this date was the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted in Co. D, Vermont Vol., as private and arose to the rank of captain, being at first color-bearer, sergeant and first lieutenant; a participant in many battles, where he gained an enviable reputation for bravery on the field; honorably discharged June 29, 1865. He married in Bloomington, where he moved after the close of the war, Miss Lavilla Waltham, a native of Vermont; one child blessed this union, named Myra. Was a member of the police force at Bloomington; afterward Captain Foster came to Roodhouse, where he has gained a host of friends, who know him for a gentleman of culture and honor.
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