James Foster Dead in Camden

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James Foster Dead in Camden James Foster, aged 8[?] years, father of late Chief of Police John Foster, died yesterday at the home of his son-in-law, Ferdinand Ketterer, 1117 Broadway, Camden, after a lingering illness. Mr. Foster had the distinction of having been the only city employe to be placed on the pension roll outside of the fire department. He was employed in the Water Bureau for nearly two score years, and it was not until he celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday that he was prevailed upon to retire.

James Foster, aged 8[?] years, father of late Chief of Police John Foster, died yesterday at the home of his son-in-law, Ferdinand Ketterer, 1117 Broadway, Camden, after a lingering illness. Mr. Foster had the distinction of having been the only city employe to be placed on the pension roll outside of the fire department. He was employed in the Water Bureau for nearly two score years, and it was not until he celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday that he was prevailed upon to retire.