BIOGRAPHY

FRED FOSS - OF PEMBROKE, NY

Foss, Fred, p. o. Pembroke, N. Y., was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in October, 1839. was educated in the schools of that country, and came to the United States in 1860, locating in the town of Pembroke, Genesee County, N. Y., where he has since carried on farming and now owns an excellent farm. In 1861 Mr. Foss married Sophia Harty, of Indian Falls; they have one son, John, who is a farmer, and who married Jessie McCrae; they have four children: Roy, Jane, Bert and Fred. Mr. and Mrs. Foss are members of the German Evangelical church.

Source: Our County and its people, A descriptive work on Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890