FOSTER, WILLIAM WILSON, JR

(1849), an American college president 6. at Moriah, N.Y., son of William W. and Frances Wheelock Foster. He was educated at Ft. Edward, N.Y. Collegiate Institute, Drew Theological Seminary and at the’Boston Univ. School of Theology. He was ordained an M.H. minister in 1873 and was afterwards pastor of several churches including the Embury M.E. Church, Cambridge, N.Y. from 1918-21. He was pres. of Rust University, Holly Springs, Mi . from 1898 to 1909, of Beaver, Pa., College, 1909-10 and of Clarke University, Atlanta, Ga. from 1912-18, of which institutions he was trustee after he retired in 1921. Author: Studies in Genests and Samuel the Prophet.