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Title	Foster's Block Drawing and Foster Family Portraits
Subject	Business and Labor Ohio Government Presidents and Politics Governors
Place	Fostoria (Ohio) Seneca County (Ohio)
Description	The first drawing depicts Foster's Block in Fostoria, Ohio, named after C.W. Foster, a successful businessman and father of Ohio governor Charles Foster. The second image includes portraits of the younger Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foster and the elder Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Foster. These drawings were published in the 1874 Combination Atlas Map of Seneca County by D.J. Stewart. The volume is 58 pages and measures 119.5" x 19.5" (49.53 x 49.53 cm). Massachusetts native C.W. Foster moved to Seneca County in 1827 shortly after his marriage to Laura Crocker. He purchased two thousand acres of land along with his father and brother-in-law in the area that would become Fostoria. Foster began a successful mercantile and credit business. Foster's residence is pictured on the left of the drawing. His son, Charles Foster, (1828-1904), served as governor of Ohio from 1880 to 1884. Born in Tiffin, Foster worked in his father's dry goods store as a young man and eventually went into business with him. A Republican, Foster was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1871. He was re-elected three times before accepting the nomination for governor. As governor, Foster supported sound-money policies and drew upon his experience as a businessman in making policy. His support of the temperance movement through high taxes on alcohol contributed to his defeat for re-election in 1883. Foster also served as secretary of the treasury under President Benjamin Harrison from 1891-1893. He died in Springfield, Ohio in 1904 and is buried in Fostoria's Fountain Cemetery.
Creator	Stewart, D.J.
Date of Original	1874
Collection	Combination Atlas Map of Seneca County
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Tiffin-Seneca Public Library
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om378_918926_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om378_918926_001.tif
Image Height	2466
Image Width	2097
File Size	1991.855 KB

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