Background
Foster, William Eaton was born on June 2, 1851 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. Son of Joseph Coggin and Abigail Ann (Eaton) Foster.
Foster, William Eaton was born on June 2, 1851 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. Son of Joseph Coggin and Abigail Ann (Eaton) Foster.
Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1873, Master of Arts, 1876, Doctor of Letters, 1901.
Cataloguer Turner Free Library, Randolph, Massachusetts, 1876-1877. Librarian Providence Public Library, 1877-1930. Author: The Civil Service Reform Movement, 1881.
The Literature of Civil Service Reform in the United States, 1881.
Libraries and Readers, 1883. The Point of View in History, 1906.
Five Men of ’76, 1926. The First Fifty Years of the Providence Public Library, 1928.
Home: Providence, Rhode Island
Married Julia Appleton, March 2, 1886.