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Show Loaned to 'l'he Utah Tiuman· t ea Research FouncRatio by Vatilda Foster Anderson , 264 J Street , Salt La' e City , Utah. Col .ected by Dr . AlbertO . l• .• itc_rell , vuly 2 1 1946. Solon Fos ter was r -c-ged pioneer w·hosf3 life s anned nearly the whole of th~ nineteenth century and whose activltiea scanned the c ~~ tin~nt - -fr ·.~ k~ York Clty to California , and from Canada to Kentucky . He pioneered in Genesee County , liew York, in Or~io , alon . the ~·- ississippi anr lf issouri, 1n tbe alt Lake Valley and finally in St. Geor ge , in s uthern Ut~h . Before that his father, Luther Foster, had pi neerea on the Delaware, the J uaql~hanna and near Cayuga La£e in Now York , leavin . 'h:t f! o d hom 1 l1 Sout JS!r.pton , Lon!7. Is land ) 1 n 1791 , as part of th~ ~reat mt~ration weetw.rd of r volutionary t1 ~as . Three ttmes Solon. lost everyt.:l. n. he had--1n Kirtls.n-4 , '!1·tb.in~ to 5et anyth"ng with out my han s , i as he said . 'l'~he s1xth ttme was ln 1 61 wi1en he W[~ nt to the deqerts of south€.rn Utah to help ound ,1ew settlerr~ent on the Rio V" rgin at the age of fifty. Before that he had f iven up all claim to ~is father's pror, rty, ·;}:en he .Joine the v:ornons a a.inat l _a fa, r1ly'a wtshes , starttng for· Uh1o w1th un . thing of this world ' s go oda~ - 1- / |
