Background
Foster, John was born in 1648 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Hopestill and Mary (Bates) Foster.
Foster, John was born in 1648 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Hopestill and Mary (Bates) Foster.
Graduated from Harvard, 1667.
"America"s First Printmaker After a while I came to look on Foster as one of the great men of that great age, — a scholar, a thinker, a printer, engraver, chemist, — a man worthy of the love, friendship, and admiration of the Mathers. Had Foster lived to that age that Franklin reached, Franklin might have been called a "second Foster.""
Richard Holman explains that Foster"s frustration with the bad quality of Cambridge printer Samuel Green on Foster"s almanac during 1675 prompted him to give a try as printer, Holman adds "perhaps Foster looked at the title page and decided that a bright Harvard man could certainly do better.".