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![foster.jpg][1]F. FosterBookbinder and Blank Book ManufacturerN. W. cor 5th and J street (over 127 J street)SacramentoCalifornia 1.1. note: ad. states “The oldest Book-Bindery on the Pacific Coast”. Robert E.Draper Sacramento City and County Directory for 1868. Only Bookbinder listed.2. H. P. Cramer is listed as a bookbinder at Foster’s ibid pg. 101.3.(1872) 39 J. street. Sacramento DAily Union, March 25, 1872.4.(1880-1881) 319 J Street . McKenny’s Pacific Coast Directory. [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1578/foster.jpg (foster.jpg)

Francis S. FosterBookbinderGeorge bw Elm and PlumCincinnatiOhio,(1846) 1.1. 1846, Robinson & Jones, Cincinnati Directory, pg.167.

Hiram Thatcher Foster Sr. (Jr. below) Blank Book Manufacturer 193 Court Street Boston Mass. 1. 1. b. Dorchester, Mass Jan. 5, 1813 d.  May 2, 1880. served in the Civil warwith  the  Thirtieth Massachusetts volunteer infantry. Later transferred tothe reserves and was on guard at the theater the night President Lincoln wasassassinated. Frederick Clifton Pierce. Foster Genealogy, pg 639 2. After the Nov. 9, 1872  fire moved to ” burnt district” at 25 Arch Street. ibid3. Hiram Thatcher Foster Jr. b. Dec. 7, 1842 d. April 17,1890, served in thecivil war, discharged in July 1865, Would take over the bindery upon the deathof his father. Would do the bindery work for the city printers, Rockwell &Churchill, doing Documents, minutes and Masonic pamphlet work. ibid pg. 6794. Henry Foster b. Boston Dec.15, 1840. Father Hiram Sr..  Bookbinder beforethe Civil War and Printer and Bookbinder after.

James FosterBookbinderin the house lately ocupied as a Store, by Mr James Fergusonadjoining the Printing-OfficeChillicotheOhio 1.1. (1809) “The undersigned having commenced the Book-Binding Business, in thetown of Chillicothe”… Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio May, 29, 1809.2. (1817)  Newspaper Publisher: started publishing  The Olive Branch, a paperthat would later become the Union Herald. Ohio History. the Scholarly Journalof the Ohio Historical Society, vol.29, pg 1523. (1818)  Circleville Ohio.  Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vol.25 no. 1. 1999. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts identificationnumber: 61319

John FosterBookbinder3 Chapel StreetNew YorkNew York ( 1820)  1.1.  Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.106.