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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



FOSTER, THOS. VEATCH, was born Sept. 25, 1788, in Harrison county, Kentucky. He was a brother to Ivins Foster. See page 309. Thomas V. Foster was twice married and had four children who lived to maturity by each marriage. He moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1826, and settled seven miles southwest of Springfield, where he died of cholera November 15, 1832. His youngest child by the first marriage, THOMAS VEATCH FOSTER, Jun., was born July 29, 1821, in Harrison county, Kentucky, was married June 24, 1847, in Sangamon county, to Polly E., daughter of Augustine E. Foster, a younger brother of Ivins Foster. Two years later Thomas V. Foster, Jun., and wife moved to the vicinity of Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois. They had five children. Their second child, WILLIAM A. Foster, born June 27, 1849, in Sangamon county, Illinois, five miles west of Chatham, and brought up in Logan county. He took a three years literary course in the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, and graduated Feb. 10, 1876, at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. He is now--December, 1876--a druggist in Springfield, Illinois.



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