Foster, A. D.

FOSTER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/16/2008 at 14:28:03

A. D. Foster

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.23, Council Bluffs)
A. D. Foster, druggist, Council Bluffs, was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., in September, 1840, and after living there five years, removed with his parents to Waukesha, Wis., where he lived about fifteen years. At the breaking out of the late war, Mr. Foster joined Company G, Twenty-eighth Wisconsin, as private, and after serving over three years, left the service a First Lieutenant. After the war, he spent about two years in the moutains, then moved to Milwaukee, Wis., where he engaged in the drug business for three years. In 1870, he came to Council Bluffs, and immediately engaged in the drug business, in company with Alfred Hammer. They carried on business for two eyars, when Mr. Foster bought out Mr. Hammer's interest in the business, and continued for three years, when the present firm of A. D. Foster & Bro. was formed, and business as since been carried on under that name. When they first began business, they did a wholesale trade, but since 1878 have carried on a jobbing business, which has steadily increased as has also their retail trade. They are one of the most substantial drug firms in the city.