The University of North Carolina Herbarium has
databased approximately 40 specimens collected by
Goodwin LeBaron Foster, who signed his specimens
and scientific papers “G.L. Foster.”
All Foster’s herbarium specimens in NCU’s collection are from Florida
in the mid-1960’s.
Lee County – Bonita Springs in particular – was a favorite collecting
area, though Foster also collected in Collier, De Soto, Hendry, and Monroe
Counties.
All NCU’s specimens collected by Foster were a
gift from the Jesup Herbarium of Dartmouth College
(HNH) in 2002. If Foster collected in
New Hampshire, it is likely that those remain at HNH.
Goodwin LeBaron
Foster was born in Calcutta, India in 1891 to Charles (b. 1850) and Elizabeth Y.
Andros (b. 1851) Foster. According to
the 1900 Federal Census, Goodwin’s father, Charles, was a dealer in teak and
the family resided in the town of Norton in Bristol County,
Massachusetts. Goodwin’s siblings
included Elizabeth A. (b. in Massachusetts September, 1885), Richard A. (b.
in Massachusetts November, 1887), and Sybil (b. November 1892 in India).2 The 1910 Federal census lists the Foster
family as living in Sharon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.3
Goodwin graduated from Dartmouth College in 1913.1 He
seems to have spent some time at the Missouri Botanical Garden, as on a 1914
publication, he is listed as “Teaching Fellow in the Henry Shaw School of
Botany at Washington University.” On 5
September, 1918 he married Grace E. Page in Candia, New Hampshire, and in
1920 they were living in Berkeley, Alameda County, California, where Goodwin
was working as a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley.4,5,8 He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1921, and
was on the faculty of Columbia University as a professor of Biological
Chemistry for 30 years.1
Goodwin & Grace Foster had two daughters,
Mary (b. ca. 1920) and Dorothy A. (b. ca. 1927).6
Goodwin LeBaron
Foster died in Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in March, 1977.7
Partial list of publications:
Foster, G.L.
1914. Indications regarding the
source of combined nitrogen for Ulva lactuca. Ann.
Missouri Bot. Garden 1: 229-235.
Schmidt, C.L.A. and G.L. Foster.
1921. A cheap and convenient
source for glutamic acid. Soc. For Exp. Biol. & Med., Proceedings
v. 18: 205-206.
Schmidt, C.L.A. and G.L. Foster. 1922. The separation of hexone
bases from a protein hydrolysate by
electrolysis. Soc. For Exp. Biol.
& Med., Proceedings, v. 19:
348-351.
Foster, G.L. 1923. Studies on carbohydrate metabolism. I.
Some comparisons of blood sugar concentrations in venous blood and in
finger blood. J. Biol. Chem. 55:
291-301.
Leland, J. [Jessica] P. [Pendleton. and G. [Goodwin] L. [LeBaron]
Foster. 1932. A method for determination of thyroxine in the thyroid.
J. Biol. Chem. 95: 165.
Schockaert, J.A. and G.L. Foster. 1932.
J. Biol. Chem. 95: 89.
Foster, G.L., A. B. Gutman, and E.B. Gutman. 1933. Total and thyroxine
iodine content of thyroid gland after injection of saline anterior pituitary
extracts. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol.
Med. 30: 1028-1032.
Foster, G.L. 1934?. A comparison of the effects of administration
of iodide and diiodotyrosine on the iodine and thyroxine content of the thyroid. J. Biol. Chem. FULL CITATION NEEDED.
Foster, G.L., D. Rittenberg, and Rudolf Schoenheimer.
1938? Deuterium as an indicatior in the study of intermediary metabolism. xiv. Biological formation of deuteroamino acids.
J. Biol. Chem. COMPLETE
CITATION NEEDED.
Shemin, David and G.L. Foster. 1946.
The isotope dilution method of amino acid analysis. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 47:
119-134.
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1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration,
1900. T623, 1854 rolls. Accessed 11
July 2012 via: Ancestry.com. 1900
United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
3.
Thirteenth
Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178
rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National
Archives, Washington, D.C. Accessed
on 11 July 2012 via: Ancestry.com. 1900
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Marriage Records 1637–1947." Index. FamilySearch,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011. “New Hampshire Statewide Marriage Records
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of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord. Accessed 11 July 2012 via: Ancestry.com. New Hampshire, Marriage
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rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National
Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers,
visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839
are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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Anonymous. 1922.
The present location and occupation of former graduate students and
others who have undertaken investigations assisted in the laboratory or
herbarium. Missouri Botanical Garden
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