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David Skaats Foster was born on January 23, 1852 in Utica, New York. He was the son of Thomas and Eliza Pearson (Skaats) Foster. His ancestor, Reginald Foster, came from England and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1638.
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David Skaats Foster was born on January 23, 1852 in Utica, New York. He was the son of Thomas and Eliza Pearson (Skaats) Foster. His ancestor, Reginald Foster, came from England and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1638.
David attended the public schools at his home and later studied in Germany. Languages, of which he finally mastered five or six, were his chief interest.
For most of his life David Foster was a coal and iron merchant in Utica, but in the years following 1887 he published about twelve books. The first of these, The Romance of the Unexpected, is made up of a number of poems, for the most part narrative, sing-song, and sentimental.
It was popular enough to be reissued in the following year, with a few additions and under a new title, Rebecca the Witch (1888). With the exception of The Divided Medal, a prose mystery story published in 1914, to which some thirty- five pages of verse were appended, these two volumes seem to have ended his career as a poet.
The first of his novels, Casanova the Courier, a story of Americans in Europe, established the model for most of what he was to write later. It is facile and sentimental, crowded with action and superficial humor. Elinor Fenton, dealing with country people in the state of New York, seems to represent a determination of the author to confine himself to a stricter realism, but in Spanish Castles by the Rhine (1897), rather a series of stories than a novel, he yielded again to his dominant impulse for the romantic.
After the appearance of this book he published nothing until 1910, when with Flighty Arethusa he inaugurated a series of novels which were more and more confessedly popular in their appeal, with incident tumbled over incident, mystery hidden behind mystery, and with platitude giving place mainly to dogmatism. Perhaps the most glaring example of this last quality in all his writing is in the war story Mademoiselle of Cambrai (1920), in which he indulges himself in the sentiment that a certain city “contained about five thousand human beings and some thirty thousand Germans”.
His wife died in 1895, and though he continued head of his mercantile firm in Utica, he made his home for the last few years of his life in Syracuse.
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In 1874 David Skaats Foster married Mary C. Williams, daughter of William A. Williams of Little Falls, New York.