Wife of Los Angeles Philharmonic founder William Andrews Clark, Jr., Foster was the daughter of an inn keeper and when she was a child, the family moved and settled in Butte, Montana. She met William Andrews Clark, a young lawyer at the time and son of the state Senator, who proposed to her that very night. The couple married on June 19, 1901 and Clark gave his wife a $60,000 diamond necklace as a wedding present. On December 2, 1902, Clark gave birth to a baby boy and the Senator gave the baby a million dollars and the boy became known as the ‘$1,000,000 baby.' Clark became ill from blood poisoning shortly after her son's birth and a number of physicians, some from as far away as Denver, Colorado, and nurses tended to her but she passed away in the early morning hours of New Years Day.
Wife of Los Angeles Philharmonic founder William Andrews Clark, Jr., Foster was the daughter of an inn keeper and when she was a child, the family moved and settled in Butte, Montana. She met William Andrews Clark, a young lawyer at the time and son of the state Senator, who proposed to her that very night. The couple married on June 19, 1901 and Clark gave his wife a $60,000 diamond necklace as a wedding present. On December 2, 1902, Clark gave birth to a baby boy and the Senator gave the baby a million dollars and the boy became known as the ‘$1,000,000 baby.' Clark became ill from blood poisoning shortly after her son's birth and a number of physicians, some from as far away as Denver, Colorado, and nurses tended to her but she passed away in the early morning hours of New Years Day.
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Originally buried in the Foster family plot in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Butte, Montana. Remains shipped to Los Angeles 21 Aug 1921
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