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Sam Walter Foss

I lived from 1858-1911.

Sam Walter Foss was born in rural Candia, New Hampshire, on June 19, 1858. His mother died when he was four. He worked on his father’s farm and went to school in the winter. He graduated in 1882 from Brown University. In 1898, he served as librarian at the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts until his death. Sam got into writing as publisher, editor, and journalist. He married a minister’s daughter and they had two children. Their son died in France during WWI.

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