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Stephen Foster America's Troubadour remembered
A Western Newspage Union tribute recalls Stephen Foster born July 4 1826 in Lawrenceville now Pittsburgh. The article outlines his early musical talent his minstrel roots his enduring songs including Old Folks at Home My Old Kentucky Home and O Susanna and notes his fragile private life and death in 1864 with 38 cents and a last lyric line found in his pocket.
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Stephen Foster
John Tasker Howard
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
America
Foster
Columbia
White Cottage
Lawrenceville
Pittsburgh
William B
Eliza Foster
Stephen
William B. Foster
William Foster
Allegheny River
United States of America
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Charlotte Foster
Jefferson
Adams
Stephen Collins
William
Towanda
Athens Academy
Tioga Point
Athens
Towanda Academy
Jefferson College
Canonsburg
George P. Morris
The
New Mirror
Susanna
Knights of the Square Table
Uncle Ned
California
Ned
W.C. Peters
Howard
Christy
Morrison
Rae
Adelina Patti
Christine _Nilsson
Suwannee
Florida
Canie
Morrison Foster
Pedee
Yazoo
Mr. Howard
Heydeg
Jana McDowell
Massa
New Orleans
Kentucky
Bardstown
Jane
Marion
New York
Stephen Collins Foster
Bellevue
New York City
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