Orange County Biographies

G. E. FOSTER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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the Recorder and Auditor of Orange County, was born in La Salle  County, 
Illinois, in 1861, a son of William Emory and Julia (Abbott) Foster, the former 
a native of Columbus, Ohio, and the latter of western New York. At the age of 
eight years Mr. Foster with his parents came to California, being among the 
passengers on
the first train over the Union Pacific railroad.  From Sacramento, which was 
then the terminus of the road, the family came by boat to Santa Barbara, and in 
December, 1877, they changed their residence to the vicinity of Orange, in the 
Santa Ana valley. Here Mr. Foster was employed upon his ranch in the raising of 
grapes and oranges. He completed a course at the Business College at Los 
Angeles, and at the age of twenty-two years was appointed superintendent of the 
Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company's ditch, which position he filled for four 
years. After this he was road overseer.
        In July, 1889, he was elected to his present position, and while 
attending to its duties he is a resident of Santa Ana, but he owns a residence 
and orange orchard near Orange. He is yet a very young man, but has held some 
office of public trust ever since he attained his majority, and well deserves 
the honor which the citizens of Orange County have conferred upon him.
        His first wife, whose maiden name was Hattie E. Cook, died in 1885, and 
April 13, 1886, he married Miss Cora L. Cook, a sister of his former wife. Mr. 
Foster is a member of Santa Ana Lodge, No. 241. of the Masonic fraternity; a 
member of the order of Eastern Star, and is also First Lieutenant and Ordnance 
Officer of the Ninth Infantry, First Brigade, National Guard of California.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  889-890