Ancestry of
Jodie Foster
Movie Actress
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- 2nd Great-grandfather of Jodie Foster — 5th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 18
- Father:
- Lucius George Fisher
- Mother:
- Caroline Amelia Field
- Birth Date:
- 27 Nov 1843
- Birth Location:
- Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 20 Mar 1916
- Death Location:
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Spouse Name:
- Katherine Louise Eddy
- Marriage Date:
- 20 Apr 1870
- Marriage Location:
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Children:
Lucius George Fisher
Alice Eddy Fisher (Ahnentafel No:9 )
Ethel Field Fisher
Kathryn Eddy Fisher
- Notes:
In an 1889 passport application, Lucius G. Fisher gives his birthdate as 27 NOV 1844, however other sources, including two later passport applications, give the date as 27 NOV 1843.
Lucius George Fisher Jr.
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Sources for Lucius George Fisher Jr.
- 1 Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 21 MAR 1916, p. 15, Obituary for Lucius G Fisher.
- 2 Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 07 AUG 1910, p. 6, Obituary for spouse Mrs. Lucius G. Fisher.
- 3 Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1900, Chicago Ward 32, E.D. 1001, Sheet 3A, Image 5 of 35.
- 4 Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1880, Chicago, E.D. 28, p. 44, Image 44 of 51.
- 5 Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Death record for Lucius Geo. Fisher.
- 6 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14, New York: James T. White and Company (1910), 119-120.
- 7 U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 30 AUG 1894, Application for Lucius G. Fisher.
- 8 U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 12 AUG 1891, Application for Lucius G. Fisher and family.
- 9 U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 19 AUG 1889, Application for Lucius G. Fisher.
- 10 Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux, The Eddy Family in America, Boston: T. O. Metcalf Company (1930), 639.
- 11 Harrison, Mitchell C., Prominent and Progressive Americans: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, Vol. 1, New York: New York Tribune (1902), 115-117.
- 12 Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 11, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 30.
- 13 Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 299.
- 14 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 333.
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