Fred Haskel Foster was Billings' Mayor in 1889 and 1893. Formed a business partnership with Perry W. McAdow in 1881 at Coulson. Robert, his father, came to Billings from Minneapolis in 1882 and started Foster's Addition subdivision. N P Railroad contractor and surveyor with Heman Clarke & Company to Billings in 1884 or 1885. See Billings Annals (Mayors of Billings), Billings Gazette, March 28, 1937. See History of Montana by Miller. See Billings Gazette, The Illustrated Edition, July, 1894, 17-18. See Capitalism on the Frontier by Van West. Yellowstone County Clerk of the District Court in the years 1900-1908 and Register of the Land Office. Part of early firefighters - See Maverick Volunteers, Billings Gazette, June 30, 1927, p.28. Fire Insurance Salesman in 1911. Young Daughter Dorothy and wife died in 1908 - See Dorothy Foster Laid to Rest, Billings Gazette, January 31, 1908, p.1. His Son Herbert married Alice Gooch of Bozeman in June, 1907. Fred Foster died October 26, 1917 in Billings - See the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum web site for a complete biography.
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photographs
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Date Original
1894
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County--Billings. Mayors--Montana. Businessmen--Montana. Surveyors--Montana. Coulson (Mont.) Clerks of court--Montana. Volunteer fire fighters--Montana. McAdow, Perry W.
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Date Digitized
2007-02-28
Relation
See Billings Annals (Mayors of Billings), Billings Gazette, March 28, 1937. See History of Montana by Miller. See Billings Gazette, The Illustrated Edition, July, 1894, 17-18. See Capitalism on the Frontier by Van West. See the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum web site for a complete biography. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mtmsgs/soc_ygf.htm. See Dorothy Foster Laid to Rest, Billings Gazette, January 31, 1908, p.1.
