John S. Foster
John S. Foster, liveryman, born in Clermont County, Ohio, on the 16th day of June, 1822, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah Foster. His father is a native of Virginia, and his mother of Pennsylvania. They immigrated to this state, in the year 1800, with a family of eight children, two sous and six daughters.
John S., our subject, was married in 1848, to Miss Margaret C. Thompson, daughter of Edward and Susan Thompson, of Thompson's Mills, Brown County, Ohio. They have a family of six cliildren, five of whom are living : Susan T., Sarah B., Kate J., Mollie V., and John K., and one dead, Edward T.
Our subject enlisted as a captain of Fourth Ohio Independent Cavalry, and stood highest of any volunteer cavalry captain in tlie United States service. He has thirty-two regular battles inscribed on his banner; and his company was body guard of General Mc- Pherson for nearly two years, until his death, and in all his battles never witnessed a single defeat. He was mustered out and received an honorable discharge on the 22d of July, 1864. He is a member of Georgetown Lodge, No. 172, F. A. M., also a member of the Methodist Church, and was elected sheriff of Brown County, Ohio, in 1854, and served two years; received his education in Clermont County and at Granville, Ohio. He is now engaged in the livery and sale business at Washington, and has followed auctioneering some twenty years of his life, making a wide-spread reputation and a host of friends, as may be seen from the very extensive business he is engaged in.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County