The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-08-18
President Of Chicago, kenosha
and Milwaukee Railway Com
pany Dies From Apoplexy.
SHERIDAN DRIVE PROMOTER
Death Will Cause New Complications in
the Completion of the Electric Rail-
way From Kenosha to Waukegan

VOluCy w. e OSI0I, pIGS1uGnI OF the
Chicago, Kenosha and Milwaukee
Electric Railway company, father of
the Sheridan Drive and a man who
had given much Of his energies to the
upbui1ding Of the North Shore, died
suddenly from apop1exy at St. Luke's
Hospital in Chicago Monday after
noon. Mr.. Foster was ffty-six years
Of age at the time of his death.
The president of the Kenosha COM
pany had been in the best of health
during the morning and had partaken
of hearty dinner with one of his
friends. He was just entering the
Stock Exchange building when he fell
into the arms of III. Ell. Gross, and an
hour later he died at the hospital.
The death of Vo1ney Foster will be
an irreparab1e loss to the North Shore
and the blow will fall heavy on Ke-
nosha.
Since the death of A1exa nder Clark
a few months ago Mr.. Foster had sue
ceeded to his position as the leading
man in the promotion of the Chicago,
Kenosha and Milwaukee Electric
road. Clark and Foster had been
great friends and when the former
fell by the wayside the latter, who
was one of the stockholders in the
company, insisted that the road must
be completed and took up the leader
ship. For some time all the right of
way for the road has been in the name
of Mr.. Foster and it is feared that his
sudden death will result in the work
of the building of the road being de-
layed for another year. Mr.. Foster
had taken the greatest interest in this
work and during the past week he
had met with the people interested in
the completion of the line, and had
announced that he was ready to turn
the right of way over to the company
AS early as 1887 Mr.. Foster began
his 1abors for the North Shore when
he organized the Sheridan Drive as
ISOLATION. With him in this work was
associated H. S. VanIngen of this city
and the two men met only short
time ago to talk of plan for the COM
pletion of the drive. The drive as it
now stands will be monument to the
life work of Mr.. Foster.
Mrs Foster was born on farm near
Jefferson, Wis, on February 81, 1848.
He was educated at Milton college
and taught school number of years.
After short residence at Manitowoc
he went to Chicago in 1871 and found
employment with the Northwestern
railway. In 1874 he went into the 1un-
Der business in Chatham, Ont, but
returned to Chicago in 1879. In 1883
he organized the Western Paving and
Supply company, which till 1893 did a
large asphalt paving business. In
1901 he organized a bonded warehouse
business with E. C. Cree1, of Chihua-
hua, Mexico, and was president
of the concern.
In addition to his other interests,
Mr.. Foster was president Of the United
States Repair and Guarantee com
pany, the United States Silica com
pany, and the Chicago, Waukegan
and North Shore railway company.
He was reputed to be worth about
$500, co.,
In 1876 Mr.. Foster married Miss Eva
A. Had, of Brockport, n. Y. She died
in 1887. He IS survived by two chill
dren, Albert Vo1ney Foster, vice pres
ident of the North Shore Gas com
pany, and Mrs. Walter L. RICHTER, Of
Bryn Mawr, Penn.