Ebenezer Brewer Foster was the publisher of the Boston Daily Courier for many years.
Gilman C. [Fisher], (b. July 12, 1841; went through [Francestown, N.H.] village schools and Academy; entered his brother's store in Dover when quite young; subsequently travelled in the South; being determined on a liberal education, he returned at age of 18 and entered the Academy at Foxcroft, Me. On the breaking out of the war, his plans were changed, and he enlisted in a Maine Reg. for nine months, serving as regimental clerk. Returning, he resumed his studies, and was chosen Principal of the High School, Dexter, Me. Having accepted the position and entered on the work, he was drafted, and went at once to the front, and remained to the last, being present at the surrender of Lee. Then receiving his final discharge, he entered Philips Academy, Exeter, where he led his class in all departments. He entered the Sophomore class of Waterville College, graduating in the class of 1869. After teaching a year, he went to Europe as a newspaper correspondent during the Franco-Prussian war; then after lecturing and teaching two years, he took charge of the High School in Swampscott, Mass., and subsequently in Malden, Mass.; spent the summer of 1878 in Europe; was appointed Superintendent of schools in Dover in the spring of 1879; now holds the same position in Weymouth, Mass.; published "A Manual of Primary Arithmetic" in 1880; is the author of an annual called "The Essentials of Geography"; m. Harriet W. Stevens of Castine, Me., Nov. 24, 1873.
History of Francestown, New Hampshire, From Its Earliest Settlement April, 1758, to January 1, 1891 With a Brief Genealogical Record of All the Francestown Families
by Rev. W.R. Cochrane, D.D. of Antrim, N.H. and George K. Wood, Esqr. of Francestown
Published by the Town. Nashua, N.H., James H. Barker, Printer, 1895; page 700.