Foster, Stephen

1. A nineteenth-century American songwriter. He wrote the words and music to some of the country's perennially favorite songs, including “Oh! Susanna,” “The Old Folks at Home,” “Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair,” and “Beautiful Dreamer.”

Example Sentences

My father was Morrison Foster, Stephen Foster's brother, and we have ample records, contemporary and documentary, showing that the '"White Cottage" where Stephen Foster and my father both were born was located on the exact spot where a brick building called the Stephen C. Foster Memorial Home, at No. 3600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, now stands.

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