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Douglas Eads Foster (1875–1962) was a Los Angeles, California, dentist who served on the City Council of that city between 1927 and 1929. ==Biography== Foster was born August 21, 1875, in Warrensburg, Missouri, the son of James Foster and Agnes Eads, his father dying when he was just three years old. He went to public schools in Warrensburg, then to Missouri State Teachers College and Washington School of Dentistry in St. Louis, Missouri. He took postgraduate work at the University of Southern California.〔(Los Angeles Public Library reference file )〕 In 1898 Foster volunteered for hospital service in the Spanish–American War and afterward helped in setting up the United States Dental Corps, being commissioned as one of the first dental surgeons in the U.S. Army in 1902. He served in that capacity until moving to Los Angeles the same year, where he practiced dentistry until he retired in 1924. After leaving the City Council in 1929 he worked in real estate.〔 Foster was married first to Alice C. Stepper in 1897 in Springfield, Kentucky, by whom he had three children, Martha, Douglas Jr. and Jane.〔 He married Margaret O. Montgomery in an Episcopal ceremony on September 2, 1927, with Los Angeles City Council Member Arthur Alber as best man.〔("Councilman Foster Marries," ''Los Angeles Times'', September 3, 1927, page A-1 )〕 He died on July 22, 1962, in his home at 421 S. Bixel Street,〔(Location on a Bing map )〕 leaving his widow, Margaret O., a son, Douglas F. Foster; a daughter, Jane Foster Morris; and a sister, Mrs. Frank W. Taggart. Although in 1927 he was a member of the Wilshire Boulevard Christian Church,〔("Foster Taxpayers' Choice," ''Los Angeles Times'', May 22, 1927, page B-5 )〕 his funeral service was a requiem mass at the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Los Angeles.〔("Obituaries," ''Los Angeles Times'', July 15, 1962, page C-14 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas Eads Foster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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