Biography

1802 - 08/14/1878


FOSTER, James, a Representative from Fayette and Westmoreland Counties; born, 1802 in Westmoreland County, Pa.; farmer; elected as an Independent American to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1855 term; died, August 14, 1878 in Derry, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Salem Church Cemetery, Derry, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania


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