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Stephen Foster, Composer
Stephen Collins Foster, the ninth of William B. and Eliza T. Foster's ten children (plus a son Stephen Foster stained glassfathered by William before the marriage and later raised as their oldest child), was born July 4, 1826, in a white cottage high on the hillside above the Allegheny River in Lawrenceville, east of Pittsburgh. The tenth child died as an infant, leaving Stephen as the "baby" of the family to be indulged by older brothers and sisters. Foster's life has become part of America...
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