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Enoch Foster (May 10, 1839 – November 15, 1913) was a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.


Biography

Enoch Foster was born in
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on May 10, 1839 and was of Puritan
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ancestry. He attended
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(then called the Maine State Seminary), graduating in 1860. He went on to enroll in Bowdoin in 1860 and graduated from
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in 1864 after receiving credit for time he spent in the 13th Regiment of the Maine Volunteer Infantry during the
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, with his second degree. Foster studied law at
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and passed the bar exam in New York and Maine. Governor Robie appointed Foster to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1884. After stepping down from the Supreme Court, Foster co-founded the firm of Foster and Hersey and remained active in the Republican Party, the
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,
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and
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. Enoch Foster died in
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on November 15, 1913, and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery. He married Adeline Lowe in 1864 and Sarah Chapman in 1873 after Lowe's death in 1872. He and Chapman had one son.''Maine: A History''
by Louis Clinton Hatch, (Maine Historical Society, Published by The American Historical Society, 1919) v. 4, pg. 182, accessed on Google Book Search November 20, 2008


References

1839 births 1913 deaths Bates College alumni Albany Law School alumni Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court People from Oxford County, Maine Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine) Maine Republicans People of Maine in the American Civil War 19th-century Maine state court judges {{Maine-state-judge-stub