Biography

09/07/1779 - 07/27/1855

FOSTER, William Barclay, a Representative from Allegheny and Butler Counties; born, September 7, 1779 in Berkely County, Va. (now, WV); colonel, deputy commissary of purchases, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Militia (1814-1815, War of 1812); soldiers agent, United States Army (1848-1851); merchant; unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Allegheny County (1819); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1825-1826, 1826-1827 and 1827-1828 term; commissioner, Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Bank of Pittsburgh (1833); collector, Pennsylvania Canal, Allegheny City; elected, mayor, Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh) (1842-1843); died, July 27, 1855 in Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.