John Montgomery Forster and Sarah Elder

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Husband John Montgomery Forster ¹

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         Father: John Montgomery Forster (1789-1858) 2
         Mother: Jennette Wright (1790-1880) 2

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Wife Sarah Elder ¹

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         Father: Robert Robinson Elder (1793-1858) 3 4
         Mother: Sarah Sherer (1797/1798-1836) 3 5

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Children

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1 M Robert Elder Forster ⁶

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         Spouse: Ella List (      -      ) 6
           Marr: Sep 1892 6

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2 F Jennette Forster ⁶

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            AKA: Jeanette Forster 7
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         Spouse: James Clark Rankin (1868-      ) 8 9
           Marr: Oct 1897 8

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General Notes: Husband - John Montgomery Forster

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He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, bar, April 24, 1850; in 1873 he was appointed Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania, serving six terms, retiring in 1891.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 209, 258.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 249.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 503.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 199.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 72, 199, 209.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 258.

7 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 36.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 128.

9 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 35.