S.H. FOSTER, one of the prominent business men of Council Bluffs, owner and proprietor of the Council Bluffs Paint, Oil and Glass Company. Mr. Foster has been a resident of this city since 1875, at which time he formed a co-partnership with his brother, A. D. Foster, under the firm name of A. D. Foster & Co. This partnership continued until April 1889 when the subject of this notice became sole proprietor of the business. The brother referred to above came to Council Bluffs in 1870 and engaged in the drug and paint business. Mr. Foster has an extensive trade. He has this year erected a fine block of tenement houses on the corner of First Avenue and Eighth Street at a cost of about $1,600 the best structures of their kind in the city. He has done considerable other building, amounting in all to about $30,000.

He was born in Sackett's Harbor, Jefferson County, New York in 1843. His father was Derley Foster. In 1846 the latter removed with his family to Waukesha County, Wisconsin where they resided until 1871 when the family removed to Walworth County, same state, where the father soon afterward died, the mother surviving until 1882.

Derley Foster was a farmer by occupation. He was twice married. The maiden name of his first wife was Diana Enos. She was the second wife of her husband, and died as above stated in 1882 at the home of her son, S.H. Foster. Derley Foster was the father of nine children, seven of whom are living. The subject of this notice enlisted in the summer of 1862 in Company B, Twenty-Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and served till the close of the war. The date of his enlistment was August 17, 1862 and of his discharge September 17, 1865. He was in active service during the whole of his enlistment. After the war Mr. Foster remained upon the home farm for a year and a half. He then went to Colorado and was engaged in mining about three years when he returned to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and in 1877 became a resident of Council Bluffs.

He was married in November 1872 to Miss Adda L. Green a native of Walworth County, Wisconsin. This union has been blessed with four children, two of whom are living: Roy H. and Minnie M. They lost their oldest child, Albert, at the age of nineteen months, and Mabel, their third child at the age of eight years. Mr. Foster was bereaved of his wife by death, September 8, 1887, his daughter having died on the fourth of July of the same year. October 3, 1888, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Minnie S. Couchman at Waukesha, Wisconsin. Mr. Foster is one of the representative business men of council Bluffs, and one of its enterprising and progressive citizens.

Contributed by: Darlene Vergamini