Foster family.

The Fosters were a family of Baptist missionaries. John Barton Foster, educated at Colby College (then called Waterville College) and Newton Theological Institution, was a teacher, editor of Zion's Advocate, minister and professor of Greek and Latin at Colby College. His son, John Marshall Foster was educated at the same institutions as his father. J. M. Foster helped found the Baptist Church at Vassalboro, Maine, was a missionary to China and Thailand, and was president of Vashon College and Academy, Burton, Washington. Clara Hess Foster, the wife of J. M. Foster, was also a missionary in China. Their son, John Hess Foster was on the medical staff of Yale-in-China.