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WALTER FOSTER, farmer, post office McKeesport, son of Samuel D. and Martha (McCollough) Foster, was born in Versailles township, in 1838, on the farm he now owns. His grandfather, Alexander D. Foster, a native of Ireland, immigrated to America, and settled in Allegheny, near the line of Washington county, in 1793. He had following-named children: Alexander (now of St. Anthony, Minn.), Samuel D. (deceased), John (deceased), Walter (now a resident of Pittsburgh), David (of Mansfield), Sarah (now Mrs. William Forsyth; her husband was formerly a deputy sheriff of the county). A. D. Foster died March 14, 1849, in his seventy-seventh year, and was buried in McKeesport and Versailles cemetery. Samuel D. Foster was reared and educated in Washington county. He married Martha McCollough, and located on the farm now owned by Walter, fifty-five years ago. They reared a family of five children: John (now in the lumber trade at Leavenworth, Kan.), Alexander (a resident of McKeesport), William (deceased), Walter, and Sarah (now Mrs. Samuel Stewart, of Versailles township). Walter Foster married, in 1862, Susan, daughter of Samuel Stewart, of Versailles township, and located on the old homestead. He engaged in farming and well-drilling, his father having opened a coal mine, which he operated successfully, and Walter still pursues that business. Their children are A. D. (married and on the old homestead), Laura E. (now Mrs. Samuel McClure), and Harry (now studying medicine). Mr. and Mrs. Foster are members of the Presbyterian Church; he is a republican.