Background
Foster, Rufus James was born on October 10, 1856 in at Minersville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Clement Storer and Rebecca (McCamant) Foster.
Foster, Rufus James was born on October 10, 1856 in at Minersville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Clement Storer and Rebecca (McCamant) Foster.
Graduate Ashland High School, 1874.
With engineering department Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, 1874-1887. Managing editor The Collier Engineer from since 1887. A founder, 1891, Vice-President International Textbook Company and allied corporations.
Member American Institute Mining Engineers, American Society Mechanics Engineers, Engineers’ Society of North.E. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Society South.R., New England Society of North Eastern Pennsylvania. Clubs: Scranton, Engineers’, Country.
Married Jane Bennett Taylor, of Minersville, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1884.