Foster, W. H.

FOSTER

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Date: 10/10/2006 at 14:25:03

W. H. Foster

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.22, Council Bluffs)
W. H. Foster, gardener and florist, Council Bluffs, was born and raised in Carter County, Tenn. Hsi father is still living in Indiana, at the age of seventy-five. Our subject is a brick-layer by trade. He left Tennessee in 1857, and worked at his trade in different cities until 1867, when he came to Council Bluffs and started a green-house. He has now the most extensive grounds and appointments west of Chicago, having twenty acres in garden and flowers, and 20,000 square feet of glass roof. He employs from six to twenty men, and is this year making extensive improvements. He was married in Indiana in 1854, and has one child - a boy of fifteen years.