Notes for: William M FOSKET
Notes for: William M FOSKET
According to Marian Rice, when the parents separated Elsie and Elmer stayed with their father and Etta May went with her mother.
William was thought to be a pauper but he had property in Cook Co, IL, Kansas City and South Dakota worth thousands of dollars. He was a graduate of the University of Minnesota, of Northwestern University Law School and of the Chicago College of Law and was licensed to practice at the bar. He was also an inventor and patented the first combined harvester and header and obtained a patent on 14 Mar 1876.
He was living as a pauper in a rooming house when he was taken ill and died in the pauper ward at Cook Co hospital in Chicago.
1880 Census American Tonship, Plymouth Co, IA
FOSKET Wm M 34 married, cabinet maker
Elsie 10 dau
Elmer 5 son
LAMB Joseph 44 servant, married, carpenter (he was William's half brother).