FOSS, B.V.

FOSS, WEBSTER, GRAY, FINCH, QUACKENBUSH, MORRIS, SOLOMON

Posted By: P. Bergmeier (email)
Date: 5/14/2005 at 17:16:34

B.V. Foss is a farmer, residing in Big Creek township, Black Hawk County, on section 26, where he has a farm of eighty acres of choice land, valued at $50 per acre.

He is a native of Grafton, New Hampshire, where he was born July 29, 1824, a son of Eben and Mary (Webster) Foss, both of whom are deceased. The mother died in New Hampshire, and the father subsequently removed with his family to Illinois, where he died in Kane County. B.V., our subject, came to Black Hawk County, Iowa in 1855, being among the early settlers. After remaining in this county three years he returned to Illinois, where he continued to reside till 1872. He then came again to Black Hawk County and settled on the farm where he has since made his home.

Mr. Foss has been twice married, taking for his first wife, Miss Elizabeth Gray, who was born in New Brunswick in 1831, a daughter of John and Margaret Gray. They were married in Kane County, Illinois in 1852. She died in 1854, leaving one son, Elwin B. Foss, of Big Creek Township.

Elwin married Ida P. Finch, and to this union have been born four children--Clyde, Amy, Ray and Della, of whom Della is deceased. Mr. Foss was again married in Kane County, Illinois, in 1855, to Miss Katherine Quackenbush, a native of Ostego County, New York, born March 30, 1826. They have three children--Elizabeth A., Emma J., Marvin E. Elizabeth married James Morris, of Sioux County, Iowa, and has a family of four children--Lewis, Henry, Fank and Bessie. Emma J. married William H. Solomon, of Boone County, Iowa.

Source: History of Black Hawk County and It's People 1915