Mary Louise Foster

Female 1873 - 1910  (37 years)


Personal Information    |    Notes    |    All

  • Name Mary Louise Foster 
    Born 13 Mar 1873  Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 2 May 1910  Brentwood, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I31180  Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23
    Last Modified 5 Jun 2022 

    Father Andrew D. Foster,   b. 10 Jul 1826, , , Sweden Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Feb 1907, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Ann Eliza Brown,   b. Jul 1834, West Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1918, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 83 years) 
    Married 16 Oct 1853 
    Family ID F11601  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Charles Carey Waddell,   b. 3 Mar 1868, Chillicothe, Peoria, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1930  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 16 Aug 1906  Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Charles Carey Waddell,   b. Abt 1910, New York City, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F11611  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Louise Foster, who used Louise Forsslund as her pen name. She was a Sayville native who wrote novels placed in the south shore of Long Island with characters closely drawn on the residents. Her second novel "Ship Of Dreams" published in 1902 mixed and matched thinly disguised members of the aristocratic Tangier Smith family of the Manor of St. George along with the area locals.

      The Story of Sarah," by M. Louise Forsslund (life-savers on the Great south Bay)
      A Winter Butterfly,” by Louise Forsslund (Holt-Rinehart, May 1907)
      "Old Lady 31" by Mary Louise Forsslund was adpated into a movie "The Captain is a Lady"

      Who's who in America - (John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis, 1906)
      FORSSLUND, (Mary) Louise (Miss), author; b. Sayville, LI, NY, Mar. 13, 1873; d. Andrew D. and Ann Eliza (Brcwn) Forssluud (or Foster); father Swedish.

      Notes for CHARLES CAREY WADDELL:
      Who's who in NY City and State - John William Leonard, Lewis Randolph Hamersly, Frank R. Holmes - 1909 - NY (N.Y.)

      WADDELL, Charles Carey: Author, magazine writer; author. Editor and prop'r Chillicothe (O.) Daily News, 1896-1900 Author: "The Van Suyden Sapphires, 1905. Married Louise Forsslund