Foster, Benjamin Browne, 1831-1903

Benjamin Browne Foster was born November 23, 1831, in Orono, Maine, the second in a family of six children. During his youth he lived in Weston, Maine and in Boston and Newburyport, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1855. He was admitted to the bar in Maine in 1858 and practiced in Bangor, Castine, and Lincoln. When the Civil War began he enlisted. He married Sarah Gibson Howell from New York in 1863, and after the War he practiced law in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1873 he moved to New York City and practiced law there. He died in 1903.

From the description of Diaries, 1847-1974 (bulk 1847-1853). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 55527811