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Dr. James H. Foster, physician and surgeon at Witcherville, was born in Yell County, Ark., in 1858, and is a son of R. C. and P. C. (Parker) Foster, natives of South Carolina and Arkansas, who were born in 1828 and 1832, respectively. They were married in Yell County, where the mother died in 1881, and the father still lives. He is a farmer by occupation, and during the war served the entire time in the Thirty-sixth Arkansas Infantry, United States Army. His father, James Foster, was a native of South Carolina, and in 1842 came to Arkansas, where he died at the advanced age of ninety-four. He was of Irish descent. The maternal grandfather of our subject, John Parker, was born in Tennessee, and, after a long residence in Arkansas, died about 1858. Dr. Foster is the third of a family of nine children, and until grown he attended but the common schools of Yell County. He then passed a year in school at Dardanelle and attended the Fayetteville University one year. In 1882 he began the study of medicine, and in the winter of 1884-85 attended the Memphis Medical College. He has since been a practitioner of Witcherville, where he is widely and favorably known, and enjoys a lucrative patronage. He is of an enterprising nature, and intends soon to further complete his medical studies. In 1882 he married Willie Parker, who died in 1884. In 1886 he was united in marriage to Tama Farreer, of Memphis, Tenn., who has borne him one child. Dr. Foster cast his first presidential vote for James G. Blaine, and is a stanch Republican. In religion he is a member of the Episcopal Church, and his wife belongs to the Catholic Church. He is a member of Christian Masonic Lodge No. 394.