James Prentice Foster

      MILITARY FUNERAL
         FOR COLONEL FOSTER
  Swift Post, G.A.R., and the Thirty-
      fourth Separate Company Will
          Attend at Geneva.
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 GENEVA., Aug. 16.--The funeral of Col.
James P. Foster, who died last night, will
be held from Trinity Church at 2:30 o'clock
to-morrow afternoon. The funeral will
be military and will be attended by Swift
Post, G.A.R., and the Thirty-fourth
Separate Company, Rev. A. C. Clark,
acting rector of the church, will officiate,
assisted by Rev. C.W. Hayes and Rev.
John M. Gilbert of Phelps. Word has also
been sent to Bishop Walker of the diocese
and all of the Episcopal clergymen of
Rochester and the neighboring places.
Burial will be made at Washington.
 Colonel Foster was born at Athens, N.
Y., and educated at the Kingston Acad-
emy. For a while after graduating he
was in the mercantile business with his
father in Athens. He was married by Dr.
Knox at the old Dutch Reformed Church
in New York in 1853. At the outbreak of
the war he joined Company M of the
Fifth United States Cavalry and in 1861
was given a commission as captain. In
1862 he resigned his command and re-
turned to Athens, where he organized a
company of infantry which was assigned
to the 128th New York Volunteers. Sep-
tember 10, 1862, he was commissioned ma-
jor, June 19, 1863, he was promoted to a
lieutenant colonelcy and on January 22,
1864, he received his commission as colonel,
in which capacity he served until mus-
tered out of the service. During his
military career Colonel Foster served in
many important engagements. He was
with General Banks at Red River and
New Orleans and with Sheridan at Shen-
andoah.
 At the close of the war Colonel Foster
came North and established his home at
Syracuse. While there he received an ap-
pointment at the Onondaga Indian Res-
ervation and also began the study for the
ministry. He was ordained deacon by
Bishop Huntington at St. James Church
in 1870 and ordained priest at Oswego in
1873. He afterwards held pastorates at
Cortland, Pulaski, Newark, Elmira, So-
dus, Phelps and East Geneva. During the
past year his health has gradually failed
and he has spent most of the time at
either the sanitarium at Dansville or this
city.
 On December 15 last year Colonel
and Mrs. Foster celebrated the fiftieth anni-
versary of their wedding and received
numerous rememberances, among them be-
ing a golden saber from James Arm-
strong of Charleston, S.C., formerly
colonel of the First South Carolina Cav-
alry, whom he had met during the war
and who afterwards became a strong
friend. He is survived by his widow, two
sons, Thomas B. and James G. of this
city, and two daughters, Nina Foster of
Geneva and Mrs. T.B. Prescott of New-
ark.