Solano County Biographies

GEO. W. FOSTER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in Lafayette, Missouri, November 11, 1829, where he received his 
education and farmed, until the spring of 1853, when he started across the 
plains for California, arriving at Lake Washington, October 19, of the same 
year, and then ran a ferry boat for two years.  At this time he made a return 
voyage, via Panama, to his home, returning at the end of two months to the 
Golden State, accompanied by his mother and four sisters, and settled on the 
place where he now resides, at Tremont Station.  Mr. Foster owns and farms three 
hundred and twenty acres of land; he is also proprietor of the warehouses, and 
conducts the shipping of all grain from that point to San Francisco and other 
ports.  He married October 17, 1860, Miss Gincey L. Wall, who was born July 1, 
1843, in his native county, and has Mary J. (deceased); William W.; Arthur T.; 
Everett E.; Elnore P.; Ethel.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 491