Fred C. Foster
Fred C. Foster, books and stationery, Washington, was born in Butler County, December 29, 1845, and is a son of Adam and Hannah Foster. His father is a native of Germany, and his mother of Ohio. The}' had a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters. Fred C. was married July 15, 1875, to Miss Francis A. Greene, daughter of Patrick Greene, of Hocking County. They have two children : Mabel C. and Dane D. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He received a common school education in Butler County, where his life was spent until he was twenty-one years of age, when he came to Washington, where he embarked in several different kinds of business, until he finally settled down to the book and stationery business, in which, .with all his opposition, he is doing a flourishing and profitable trade. His place of business is just below the post office, oil Court Street.
