Ancestry of
John W. Foster

32nd U.S. Secretary of State

John Watson Foster

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Matthew Watson Foster 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor Johnson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Mar 1836 
  • Birth Location:
  • Petersburg, Pike, Indiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Nov 1917 
  • Death Location:
  • Washington, D.C. 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana 
  • Notes: 

  • 32nd United States Secretary of State

• Marriages for John Watson Foster

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Parke McFerson
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1859

• Sources for John Watson Foster

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A094220.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/21/2015).
  • ³ The Midland Monthly, 1895, Vol. 4, pp. 534-535.
  • ⁴ Washington, D.C., U.S., Select Deaths and Burials Index, 1769-1960, Death record for spouse Mary Parke Foster.
  • ⁵ Carey, Patrick W., Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ: A Model Theologian 1918-2008, Mahwah, New Jersey: Published by Paulist Press (2010), 4.
  • ⁶ Foster, John W., Biographical Sketch of Matthew Watson Foster, 1800-1863, Astor Place, New York: F. F. Little and Co. (1896), 42.
  • ⁷ Motter, H. L., editor, The International Who's Who: Who's Who in the World, 1912, New York: The International Who's Who Publishing Co. (1911), 470.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 79-80.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "John W. Foster", (accessed 04/21/2015).