Ancestry of
James Spader

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Edward Jacob Forster

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of James Spader — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 30 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Forster IV 
  • Mother:
  • Louisa Webb   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jul 1846 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 May 1896 
  • Death Location:
  • onboard the steamer Puritan of the Fall River line, New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anita Damon Lyon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Sep 1871 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Thompson Forster (Ahnentafel No:15 )

• Sources for Edward Jacob Forster

  • ¹ Boston Post (Boston, Massachusetts), 16 MAY 1896, pp. 1, 6, Obituary for Dr. Edward Jacob Forster.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 261, Birth record for Edward Jacob Forster.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Milton, Vol. 470, p. 495, Marriage for Frederick Bowditch and daughter Elizabeth Forster.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Charlestown, Vol. 236, p. 161 Marriage for Edward Jacob Forster and Anita Damon Lyon.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 102, Marriage announcement for Edward Jacob Forster and Anita Damon Lyon.
  • ⁶ Forster, Edward Jacob, M.D., The Pedigree and Descendants of Jacob Forster, Sen. of Charlestown, Mass., Charlestown: C.S. Wason and Co. (1870), 14, 25.
  • ⁷ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 37.
  • ⁸ Thompson, Rev. Leander, Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown, Mass., 1630-1642, and Woburn, Mass., 1642-1682; and Eight Generations . . ., Boston: Press of L. Barta and Co. (1887), 113.
  • ⁹ Vose, Ellen F, comp., Robert Vose and His Descendants, Boston, Mass.: Privately Printed (1932), 213.

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