Papers of Bryant Edgar Foster, 1891-1969.

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Papers of Bryant Edgar Foster, 1891-1969.

The Papers of Bryant Edgar Foster consists of documents dated 1891 to 1969, with the bulk falling from 1917 to 1943. This collection contains material primarily from Foster's service in the Army, 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 Chapin 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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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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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 Agricultural ...