John Onesimus Foster (December 14, 1833 – November 3, 1920) was an American Methodist minister.
[1] From 1854 to 1860 he attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and in 1862 he graduated from the Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois.
[1] In 1904, Foster moved to Seattle, and joined the Washington State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution that year.
[1] Foster, who was considered "an inventor of many ingenious devices and processes", also worked as an editor and wrote several books, including The Heart of the Bible.
[3][4] Grace Foster became a missionary, and married the minister Stephen J. Herben, also a Garrett Institute alumnus.