{"id":9090,"date":"2013-11-19T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T03:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:30:13","slug":"foster-wilbur-fisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/foster-wilbur-fisk\/","title":{"rendered":"FOSTER, Wilbur Fisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>FOSTER, Wilbur Fisk<\/strong>, civil engineer; born Springfield, Mass., April 13, 1834; English descent; son of <strong>Dexter and Euphasia Maria (Allen) FOSTER<\/strong>; father, civil engineer; paternal grandparents <strong>Lewis and Hannah (Porter) FOSTER<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Diah and Lydia (Bush) ALLEN<\/strong>; educated in public schools of New England; graduated from High School, Springfield, Mass., 1851; began his early business career as one of an engineering party in the location of the M. &amp; O. Railway, 1851-52; married <strong>Elizabeth NICHOL<\/strong>, of Nashville, Tenn., June 19, 1866; entered Confederate army May 1861, as private Company C, First Tennessee Regiment, C. S. A.; served four years, and at time of surrender held rank of Major of Engineers; 1884 to 1906, general contracting as member of firm of Foster &amp; Creighton; City Engineer of Nashville, 1865 to 1884; now retired from active business and is Director in Foster-Creighton-Gould Company, Nashville Trust Company, Phillips &amp; Buttorff Manufacturing Company and stockholder in various other companies; was charter member of Hermitage Club; has been member of University Club, Nashville, Tenn., member Presbyterian Church; has held highest rank in every Masonic Grand Body in Tennessee.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville FOSTER, Wilbur Fisk, civil engineer; born Springfield, Mass., April 13, 1834; English descent; son of Dexter and Euphasia Maria (Allen) FOSTER; father, civil engineer; paternal grandparents Lewis and Hannah (Porter) FOSTER, maternal grandparents Diah and Lydia (Bush) ALLEN; educated in public schools of New England; graduated from High School, Springfield, Mass., 1851; began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,4410,4062,4419],"tags":[160,2284,981,195,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-9090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-f","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-allen","11":"tag-bush","12":"tag-foster","13":"tag-nichol","14":"tag-porter","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13065,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions\/13065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}