IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES OTHER STATE OFFICERS JOHN W. FOSTER, GUTHRIE CENTER. - Member of State Board of Assessment and Review, was born and reared in Guthrie county, Iowa, and has never had a home elsewhere. Attended country schools and the State College at Ames, and graduated from the law department of Iowa State University. Taught several terms of school; served six years as county auditor of Guthrie county, and was state senator from Audubon-Guthrie-Dallas district in the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh and thirty-eight general assemblies. Became law partner of the late Judge Applegate in 1886. Judge Applegate retired from the firm a few years later and became district judge. For more than forty years thereafter the business of the law firm was carried on in the name of John W. Foster, and he is now associated with his son, Carl S. Foster, in the law firm of Foster and Foster. Has been largely interested in farming and banking. Was appointed a member of the State Board of Assessment and REview by Governor Hammill, July 15th, 1929, and re-appointed by Governor Clyde Herring, July 1st, 1923. A republican. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/) IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)