Papers of Bryant Edgar Foster 1891-1969 1917-1943

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Papers of Bryant Edgar Foster 1891-1969 1917-1943

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Bryant E. Foster served with the 89th Division, 314th Ammunition Train, in World War I. Following the war he worked for several years with the Great Western Sugar Company in northern Colorado, and beginning in 1933 worked as an appraiser with the Federal Land Bank. This collection contains material primarily from his Army service, including correspondence (much by Bryant Foster and his wife Lucy Chapin Foster), military papers such as copies of orders, photographs, maps, postcards and a war scrapbook. Also included are a number of diaries by Lucy Foster that cover the war years as well as earlier and later periods. Some miscellaneous materials relating to both the Foster and Chapin families are also included.

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Foster, Bryant E.

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Bryant E. Foster served with the 89th Division, 314th Ammunition Train, in World War I. Following the war he worked for the Great Western Sugar Company in northern Colorado, and beginning in 1933 worked as an appraiser with the Federal Land Bank. Foster was born on July 25, 1891, in New Mexico, and died in Fort Collins, Colorado, in October of 1968. Foster received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1917. He returned to school at the Colorado ...

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

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Historical Note American Expeditionary Force The American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was the U.S. military force in Europe during World War I. Although a division commanded by General John J. Pershing was sent to France in June 1917, most of the AEF was manned as a result of passage of the Selective Service Act (40 Stat. 76) by the U.S. Congress on 18 May 1917, creating the Selective Service System. The Act gave the president the p...

Foster, Lucy

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