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David Skaats Foster

David Skaats Foster (1852-1920) was an American writer and coal and iron merchant.[1]

He was born in Utica, New York, the son of Thomas Foster and Eliza P. Skaats. His father was also a merchant, "was prominent in railroad building" and was Vice President of the Utica City National Bank. [2] In 1874 he married Marry C. Williams. His wife died in 1895. He had two sons, the twins Gerard S. Foster and Bernard D. Foster (b. 1880). [3]

His 1914 novel, "The Road to London" was adapted into a film in 1921.[4]

Bibliography

  • The Romance of the Unexpected (1887),poems [5]
  • Rebecca the Witch: And Other Tales in Metre (1888), poems[6]
  • Casanova the Courier (1892)[7]
  • Ellinor Fenton, an Andirondack Story (1893), re-released as "Our Uncle William ; also, Nate Sawyer"
  • Spanish Castles by the Rhine: A Triptychal Yarn (1897)
  • Prince Timoteo (1899) [8]
  • Flighty Arethusa (1910)
  • The Road to London (1914)
  • The Divided Medal (1914)
  • The Kidnapped Damozel ; The Oval Diamond ; Alraschid in Petticoates (1915)
  • The Lady of Castle Queer (1919)[9]
  • Mademoiselle of Cambrai (1920)

References

  1. ^ https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Foster%2c David Skaats%2c 1852-1920
  2. ^ "Foster genealogy", page 372 (378 in the online document) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067353839&view=1up&seq=378&skin=2021
  3. ^ Upstate Literature: Essays in Memory of Thomas F. O'Donnell https://books.google.com/books?id=XaNd2ua7gVgC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22David+Skaats+Foster%22+Utica&source=bl&ots=0f2vq48Z8B&sig=ACfU3U0nCYCw5SCXT3R-YFnb_vna5CA7QA&hl=cs&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj348DRu9TyAhXQ2qQKHSstBsEQ6AF6BAhMEAM#v=onepage&q=%22David%20Skaats%20Foster%22%20Utica&f=false
  4. ^ "The Road to London (1921) - IMDb".
  5. ^ https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011211788
  6. ^ Foster, David Skaats (1888). "Rebecca the Witch: And Other Tales in Metre".
  7. ^ Foster, David Skaats (1892). "Casanova the Courier".
  8. ^ https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100586683
  9. ^ Foster, David Skaats (1919). "The Lady of Castle Queer".


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