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FOSTER, Herbert Sidney

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 195-196

Herbert Sidney FOSTER, retired army officer and farmer, Calais, was born 08 
August 1853 in Calais [Washington County, Vermont], son of Sidney Henry and 
Louisa R. (DUDLEY) FOSTER. [Note in the Washington County, Vermont, 
biography of Alonzo M. FOSTER, that he married an Elsie W. DUDLEY. Unknown 
to submitter, who is not researching this surname, if Elsie W. DUDLEY and 
Louisa Rich DUDLEY were related.] He [Herbert Sidney FOSTER] was educated in 
the public schools, Goddard Seminary, Barre [Washington County], and U. S. 
Military Academy, West Point [Orange County], New York. Mr. FOSTER served as 
an officer in the U. S. Army from 15 June 1876 to 06 October 1906. [Herbert 
S. FOSTER was enumerated with about fifty others, most of whom were privates, 
in the 1880 census of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas.] Mr. FOSTER was 
in service in the Spanish-American War; was in the battles of El Caney, Cuba, 
01 July, and Santiago, 2nd and 3rd of July, and 10th and 11th of July, 1898; 
served in the Philippine insurrection; in battles at St. Guadaloupe Church, 
Luzon, 06 Mar 1899; Pasig, Luzon, 08 Mar 1899; and Cainta, Luzon, 09 Mar 
1899; retired from active service with rank of colonel on 06 Oct 1906. Mr. 
FOSTER has since engaged in farming. Republican; delegate to various 
conventions, county, district, and state; justice of the peace. In religious 
preference a Universalist. Member of the Sons of Veterans; Military Order of 
the Loyal Legion; Military Order of Foreign Wars; Society of Santiago de 
Cuba; Sons of the American Revolution; Vermont Historical Society; 
Montpellier Historical Society; Calais Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; Winooski 
Valley Pomona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; American Civic Alliance; and the 
Green Mountain Club. Has held the offices of sergeant of the guard and 
captain in Camp 19, Sons of Veterans, Burlington; and in Camp 39, North 
Calais, has been commander, secretary two terms, patriotic instructor two 
terms, chaplain, and member of the council two terms; in Vermont Division, 
lieutenant-colonel and colonel 1891 and 1892, patriotic instructor two terms, 
member of council two terms; member of military committee two terms in the 
commandery-in-chief, Sons of Veterans; member of council two terms in 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U. S., Vermont Commandery; judge 
advocate, and treasurer two terms in Military Order of Foreign Wars of the U. 
S., Vermont Commandery; member of board of managers three terms, chairman of 
the board two terms in Sons of the American Revolution, Vermont Society; 
master one term in Calais Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; lecturer two terms in 
Winooski Valley Pomona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; and governor for state 
of Vermont in American Civic Alliance. In 1884 Mr. [Herbert Sidney] FOSTER 
married [Miss?] Laura A. KENT of Boston [Suffolk County], Massachusetts [who 
was born 02 March 1853 at Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont]; they have 
three children: Forest Kent, Sidney Herbert, and Louise Evangeline.

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