Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Foster Family Papers Series 1: Business/ Financial Records |
Scope & Content |
Foster Family Papers Series 1: Business/ Financial Records The Foster Family Papers are organized into 4 series relating to various aspects of Foster Family. This series contains material documenting the personal finances of Charles and Caroline Foster. It includes Manuscripts, Receipts, Catalogs, Ledgers, and notes, from 1881 to the 1970s. Series 1 is broken into 9 subseries: Catalogs, Receipts, Deeds/Property, Insurance Policies, Commodities Broker, Checkbooks and Registers, Taxes, Banking and Investments, Household Help, and Ledgers. |
Object Name |
Papers, Business |
Catalog Number |
2020.005.0001 |
Collection |
Fosterfields Collection |
Physical characteristics |
30 boxes of archival material |
Creator |
Foster Family members |
Biographical History |
In 1881 Charles Foster, the most recent renter, for $1500. Charles became a part-time gentleman farmer, raising Jersey dairy cattle at Fosterfields (the name he gave to the Revere Farm), while commuting by train into the city. He bought adjacent farms from John Gribbon and Nathaniel Wilson increasing his property from 88 to 180 acres. The farm remained active through the 1920s, but the herd was reduced around the time of Charles' death in 1927. Caroline never married nor had any children. On her death in 1979 at age 102, Caroline left her property to the Morris County Park Commission including the Willows, farm, archives, and some of the house's contents. |
Year Range from |
1865 |
Year Range to |
1978 |
System of arrangement |
The Foster Family Papers are organized into 4 series relating to various aspects of Foster Family. Series 1: Business/Financial Series 2: Oral History Series 3: Family Series 4: Farm |
Parent ObjectID |
2013.009 |
Copyrights |
Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research; however, as with all materials in the Morris County Park Commission, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection. |
Level of description |
Series |