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Foster, John Watson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Pike co., Ind.; grandfather of John Foster Dulles. Foster practiced law (1857–61) at Evansville, Ind., and then served (1861–65) with the Union army in the Civil War. The U.S. minister to Mexico (1873–80), to Russia (1880–81), and to Spain (1883–85), Foster was (1892–93) Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison. www.bartleby.com /65/fo/Foster-J.html   (164 words)

John W. Foster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836 – November 15, 1917) was an American military man, journalist and diplomat. Born in Evansville, Indiana he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War. One of his grandsons was John Foster Dulles, another U.S. Secretary of State. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_W._Foster   (177 words)

American President John Watson Foster was born in 1836 in Pike County, Indiana. Foster then returned to the United States and resumed his legal career before becoming President Benjamin Harrison’s special plenipotentiary in 1890, responsible for negotiating treaties with Spain, Russia, and Britain. Foster served from June 1892 until February 1893, during which time he addressed such matters as the Bering fur seal issue with Russia and Britain, the possible annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, and a Chilean attack on U.S. sailors. www.americanpresident.org /history/benjaminharrison/cabinet/statesecretary/JohnWFoster/email.html   (284 words)

John W. Foster -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836–November 15, 1917) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American military man, journalist and diplomat. Born in (additional info and facts about Evansville, Indiana) Evansville, Indiana he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the (The state of being joined or united or linked) Union in the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War. One of his grandsons was (United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959)) John Foster Dulles, another U.S. Secretary of State. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_w._foster.htm   (281 words)

John Foster Dulles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) In recent weeks, however, the name Dulles achieved new prominence when Pope John Paul ll named new Cardinals, one of whom is the 82-year-old Jesuit, Avery Dulles, son of John Foster Dulles and nephew of Allen Dulles, two of the 20th Century's most influential network of power policy makers. John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Washington on 25th February, 1888. John Foster Dulles-coming to believe that only the Gospels and international organization could preserve world order-gained wide notice as an expert on international affairs by chairing a 1941 peace commission for the Federal Council of Churches. www.crossroad.to /Quotes/Church/Conway/dulles.htm   (1078 words)

12/08/01 Minutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) John Watson announces that people wishing to dissociate themselves from the Nation can request their records to be returned after submission of a $5 processing fee. John Watson presents a proposed resolution [120801-2] authorizing John Duke to retrieve the records and act as custodian thereof. John Watson presents a proposed resolution [120801] for suspension and initiation of recall proceedings against Lee Overturf. www.westerncherokeenation.org /minutes/12-08-01.shtml   (1278 words)

NYCHS Presents Miskell's 'Why Auburn?' -- the Relationship of the City and the Prison: Removal Requested John, Allen and Eleanor's mother Edith was John Watson Foster's daughter; Edith's sister was their aunt Eleanor Foster Lansing. On June 26, 1912, John Foster Dulles and Janet Pomeroy Avery, daughter of a prominent Auburn attorney and former federal official, Charles Irving Avery, were married at Auburn. John W. Rogers, Education Director, reported that "on March 6, 1969, 870 of the 1,559 men in the prison are enrolled in the school program, 342 in vocational courses. www.correctionhistory.org /auburn&osborne/miskell/html/whyauburn_removal.html   (2666 words)

Welcome Page Surety at the marriage was Edwin Binford, the Minister was James McAden and with the consent of the father, John Harper. John: Residing in Brunswick Co., Va. at time of marriage, and a mechanic at age 38. John: Parents were William and Rebecca J. Watson according to marriage license in Greensville County, Va. * Jnocana Watson Listed in 1860 Census as age 4. www.geocities.com /Heartland/Estates/4909/watindex.htm   (1465 words)

Brain-Juice | Biography of John Foster Dulles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) As a result, in addition to being an adventurous boy who enjoyed such activities as swimming in upstate New York, John Foster Dulles-or Foster as he was known-became quite brilliant and learned at an early age. His maternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, was Secretary of State in Benjamin Harrison's administration. Foster had actually gotten his first taste of international politics while still at Princeton, accompanying his grandfather to the Hague to an international peace conference. www.brain-juice.com /cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=159   (2056 words)

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Foster, John Watson @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) FOSTER, JOHN WATSON [Foster, John Watson] 1836-1917, American diplomat, b. Foster practiced law (1857-61) at Evansville, Ind., and then served (1861-65) with the Union army in the Civil War. The U.S. minister to Mexico (1873-80), to Russia (1880-81), and to Spain (1883-85), Foster was (1892-93) Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Foster-J&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (181 words)

The Roaring 20s and the Roots of American Fascism John Foster Dulles' dealings during the peace negotiations cause him to rise in stature in the eyes of Cromwell. Cromwell would remain in Paris and John Foster Dulles, while not formally in charge of the New York office, would be the force to be reckoned with in New York. John Foster Dulles became a director of I.G., while his brother Allen was of the board of a leading German bank that became closely associated with the Nazis. www.spiritone.com /~gdy52150/1920sp2.html   (8452 words)

Dulles John Foster Dulles observes the operation and training procedures the Korean Army receives with an antitank gun. John Foster Dulles, born on February 25, 1888, is known today primarily for his tenure as secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. John Foster Dulles died on May 24, 1959, after a long and courageous struggle with cancer. www.state.nj.us /military/korea/biographies/dulles.html   (1025 words)

fword preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Watson conditioned a fear response in an infant identified only as 'Little Albert,' afterwards triumphantly declaring that "men are built, not born." Ten years later, Watson penned what was at the time considered the bible of child-rearing, Psychological Care of Infant and Child, assuming the mantle that would later be worn by Dr. Spock. Watson had long since left his position at Johns Hopkins amidst a nasty divorce from his first wife, presumably precipitated by her displeasure with the revelation that Watson's experiments had included impregnating his nurse and torturing their resultant offspring. Like Watson, he used his own child as a human guinea pig, raising her in the thermostatically controlled, sound-proof isolation chamber for the first two years of her life, cut off from human contact. www.davesweb.cnchost.com /fwordpreview.htm   (17007 words)

John Watson Foster FOSTER, John Watson, diplomatist, born in Pike County, Indiana, 2 March 1836. He was graduated at the Indiana state University in 1855, and, after one year at Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar and began practice in Evansville. Some weeks later General Foster was instructed to return to Spain to reopen negotiations for a modified treaty. www.famousamericans.net /johnwatsonfoster   (438 words)

John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State Grandfather Foster would argue the case for the Boers and Uncle Bert the case for the British in the Boer War. Foster was graduated from Princeton in 1908 as valedictorian of his class, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a $600 scholarship for a year's study at the Sorbonne in Paris. At the end of 1953, John Foster Dulles had said, quite pointedly, that the U.S. would be forced to make an "agonizing reappraisal" of its relations with France, of its policy toward Europe if EDC failed of ratification. www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jfdulles.htm   (7989 words)

MSN Encarta - John Foster Dulles Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959), American secretary of state (1953-1959), remembered as an uncompromising foe of communism. Born February 25, 1888, in Washington, D.C., Dulles was a grandson of John Watson Foster, secretary of state under President Benjamin Harrison, and a nephew of Robert Lansing, secretary of state under President Woodrow Wilson. Educated at Princeton and George Washington universities and at the University of Paris, he began to practice law in New York City in 1911 and subsequently became known as an authority on international law. encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761565119   (234 words)

U.S. Ministers and Ambassadors to Russia Appointed by President James Madison, John Quincy Adams was the first official U.S. representative to Russia, serving with the official title of Minister Plenipotentiary in the Russian imperial capital of St. Petersburg. During the Civil War John Watson Foster served in the Union western armies of Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman, beginning as a major and rising to the rank of general. John Wallace Riddle served briefly as Minister to Romania and to Serbia in 1905, before being appointed Ambassador to Russia by President Theodore Roosevelt. moscow.usembassy.gov /links/ambassadors.php   (6755 words)

ELLIOTT, J.B. MSS.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) ELLIOTT, J.B. The Elliott, J.B. mss., 1851-1853, are letters written by and to John Bennett Elliott, 1836-1904, student at Indiana University, 1852-1853, and later farmer and fruit grower of Harmony Township, Posey County, Ind. The letters describe life at the University at the time. They include letters to Elliott from John Watson Foster and Jacob Vance Wolfe, students at the University, J. Edward Clarke of New Harmony, Ind., and Madison Safford of Cambridge, Vermont, and letters from Elliott to his mother and sister, Mrs. John Elliott and Miriam Elliott of New Harmony, Indiana. www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/elliottj.html   (135 words)

SRA : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The English-born Bishop of Chartres, John of Salisbury, got very angry at the Germans, attacking this “brutish and impetuous people” for believing they had the right to boss everyone else around, when the Holy Roman Emperor, Friedrich I Barbarossa, had forced the election of Pope Victor IV at the Council of Pavia in 1160. He is therefore also the nephew of John Foster Dulles’ younger brother, Allen Welsh Dulles, who was Director of the CIA when his brother was at State, and who masterminded the overthrow of Prime Minister Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and the Bay of Pigs botched invasion of Cuba in 1961. The “Foster” in the elder Dulles’ name refers to his maternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, who was a brigadier in the US Civil War, US Minister to Mexico, and later also Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison. www.sandersresearch.com /Sanders/NewsManager/ShowNewsGen.aspx?NewsID=899   (1087 words)

John W. Foster - TheBestLinks.com - American Civil War, Benjamin Harrison, James G. Blaine, March 2, ... John W. Foster - TheBestLinks.com - American Civil War, Benjamin Harrison, James G. Blaine, March 2,... John W. Foster, American Civil War, Benjamin Harrison, James G. Blaine, March 2... John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836–November 15, 1917) was an American military man, journalist and diplomat. www.thebestlinks.com /John_W._Foster.html   (196 words)

Early Career (from John Foster Dulles) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) His maternal grandfather was John Watson Foster, who served as secretary of state under President Benjamin Harrison. (1888–1959), U.S. lawyer and diplomat, born in Washington, D.C.; grandson of John Watson Foster, brother of Allen Welsh Dulles; with law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, New York, N.Y., 1911–49; acting chairman U.S. delegation to United Nations General Assembly 1948; interim U.S. senator (Republican) from New York 1949; special representative of president of U.S. to... John F. Kennedy is still considered one of the most popular U.S. presidents. www.britannica.com /eb/article-1935?tocId=1935   (717 words)

John Dawson-watson ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews Charles John Watson, Boat-Building on the Yare, plate 4 in the book, The Etcher (London: Sampson Lowä, 1880), vol. Charles John Watson, A.W.G. 14 April, fourteenth plate from the portfolio Sketches Made on the Lithography Night 14 April 1905 by Member s of the Art Workers Guild, Clifford Inn Hall and Published for the Benefit of the Chest, 1905 Caroline Watson, Portrait of the Empress of Russia, Catherina, 1788 wwar.com /masters/d/dawson-watson-john.html   (1312 words)

John Foster Dulles --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) He was the architect of many major elements of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War with the Soviet Union after World War II. Its purpose was to foster a system of mutual support to protect Southeast Asia against Communist expansion. Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031415?&query=john   (779 words)

The Descendants of Roger Foster He is mentioned many times in Southampton records with his father and brothers, such as in whaling squadrons, etc. LDS has the subsequent lineage of Samuel as him having brothers Jonathan, Ephraim and David, with father as Allen, m. The Search for Nathaniel Foster of Morris Co., NJ                 Much confusion exists over two Nathaniel Fosters who died in New Jersey at approximately the same time (one c, 1763, the other 1769), and the fact that a Mary Eldredge is credited to have been married to either one. Adm't - Nathaniel Foster, of Lebanon, Hunterdon Co., flsmith.  Fellowbondsman - Michael Welsh, of Roxbury, Morris Co., yeoman, and Thomas Silverthron, of Mansfield Woodhouse, Sussex Co., yeoman. www.geocities.com /Heartland/Cliffs/6573/foster.html   (8951 words)

Dulles' Journey of Discovery Includes Visits to Scranton In addition, his grandfather, John Watson Foster, was a liberal Presbyterian theologian. The Rev. John Shea, SJ, the assistant to the vice president for institutional advancement at the U of S and former vice president of student affairs at Fordham University, got to know Father Dulles there when he, Father McShane and Father Dulles resided in the same building. Father Shea sees a similarity in the elevation of Father Dulles to cardinal to the long journey of John Henry Newman, an Anglican clergyman in England in the mid 1800s, who became a Catholic priest and a cardinal on the strength of his teaching and writings on theological subjects. www.scrantontimestribune.com /stories/flannery/1366.htm   (775 words)

06/12/04 Minutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Deputy Chief Watson said he spoke with Orin and Donna about the Worlds Fair and they said if we did it would be small. A) DC Watson on a New Resolution about One Nation – Barbara Lindsey; DC Watson reads a letter that is a request to ask elders to have the executive branch have her appear at our August meeting. John Watson, mentions that we need a keeper on the Ceremonially Grounds (the 12 acres) Little Chief will be the grounds keeper. www.westerncherokeenation.org /minutes/06-12-04.shtml   (636 words)

John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles served as secretary of state in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. His family background included a grandfather, John Watson Dulles, who served as secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison. Memorabilia related to John Foster Dulles is at auction on eBay. www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1762.html   (808 words)

Avery Dulles’s Long Road to Rome It was the culmination, if not the end, of a long pilgrimage by a man who in his youth would have been thought an unlikely candidate to receive a high Church honor while kneeling in front of the bishop of Rome. Avery Robert Dulles is the son of the late John Foster Dulles, who, among other achievements, negotiated the U.S. peace treaty with Japan ending World War II and served as secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In our new millennium, in which the papacy of John Paul II has pointed to a more authentic and balanced reading of Vatican II that both preserves Catholic tradition and energizes it toward the future, Avery Dulles is a central figure. www.crisismagazine.com /julaug2001/feature1.htm   (2836 words)

Genevieve Foster --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Sometimes referred to as horizontal histories, these books present information on the happenings in the world during a certain time period in addition to the events in the featured individual's life. Foster was born Genevieve Stump on April 13, 1893, in Oswego, N.Y. Foster, Genevieve... Includes articles written by and about foster parents and foster children, a message board, a chat room, and a state-by-state resource directory. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9323721   (666 words)

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