Ed Foster came to Oregon on the Oregon Trail in 1844. Little is known of his early life.. the year of his birth is not clear. With no real photographs available no one can tell if he was 20, 30 or 40 at the time.

Records show that he settled near Oregon City, homesteading a donation land claim. In 1853 he sent the first known specimen of the slug eyed fish bat to Philadelphia. Unfortunately it was damaged in transit and not properly identified until 1984. In 1848 started the first circulating library in Oregon using his personal library and writings, with a total membership over the years of 8.

He was a frequent correspondent of Edgar Allen Poe until the latter's death. Edgar was convinced his friend shared his affection for certain substances... especially after receiving detailed notes on the slug-eyed fish bat.

During the turmoil of the War between the States, Foster was little giving to rumors that he served as an intelligence correspondent. Given the lack of intelligent decisions, it is a question to whom he rendered the reports and whether they were anti-intelligence reports or disinformation and which side received the most of these.

Foster, himself, claims to have gone to Nevada during this period, looking for the legendary "Blue Bucket" mine. The mine continues to be legendary to this date. However Ed Foster deposited a large sum of silver in Carson City Bank around this period. It is not known that sum's subsequent use.

In 1867, Foster founded the Multnomah Gun Club in emulation of the Baltimore Gun Club. After the Baltimore Gun Club's moon shot, the Multnomah club announced plans to fire a similar projectile to Mars, bearing diplomatic greetings to the builders of Schiaparelli's canali. Unfortunately, this project was bankrolled primarily with donations from Ed Foster and an explosion during loading resulted in the creation of the Mt. St. Helens caldera.

In 1885 the Multnomah Gun Club's Mars Gun was lost at Sea being transported to the launch site. It resurfaced at a beach, south of Seaside, which was then named "Cannon Beach."

In 1887, Ed Foster designed what he claimed to be the first pay telephone booth, inspired by a blue box he had found while climbing Mt. Hood. Unfortunately his patent application was filed shortly after that of Elija Gray. Gray won the subsequent legal battle.

In 1893 Ed witnessed and reported the presence of a large black disk that swallowed cattle at Shaniko. The cattle, being driven west to slaughter, simply walked through this disk and disappeared. Ed reported a disembodied voice saying, "Ten... that should take care of our Mac-shortage today!." He was disbelieved.

While on Mt. Hood, he also found Lost Lake which so-and-so had lost, to the great disgust of the surrounding indian tribes in 1830. He was careful to leave a well blazed trail so that no-one could accuse him of loosing the lake again.

In 1900, Foster founded the United States Anti-agathic Medicine Company. He has remained on the board of directors, since. Surprisingly, the company has managed to evade many take-over attempts.

Ed Foster, inadvertantly created the "Church of the Lottery," when attempting to establish a state run lottery. People prayed, either for or against thus was born the "Church of the Lottery," which later became the 24 hour church of Elvis, who having come back many and a many time, won the lottery of life. This was due to a typographical error, where a columnist for the Oregonian confused Presbytarian with Preslytarian, allowing true believers to take over the dying "church."

The Multnomah Gun Club resurfaced in 1933, in response to the beaching of the whale at Florence. The state highway commission contracted the club to remove the whale with dynamite, at Ed Foster's suggestion. Unfortunately the resulting blast was insufficient to completely destroy the carcass, and the gun club declared bankruptcy from subsequent lawsuits. They gave a whole new meaning to the term, "That she blows!"

In 1942 he singled handedly repelled a Japanese invasion of Oregon, standing tall at Bandon, as the rest of the National Guard was mis-directed to Bend.

In 1957 an alleged descendant of Ed's bought all the units in a home park as a long term investment. Unfortunately within the year, the land owner had sold the terrain out from under them. Since the land lay in the proposed I-205 corridor, all units were blown up, revealing a hitherto undiscovered burial ground dating to approximately 1100 CE. Subsequent study of the artifacts at the Smithsonian, uncovered indian relics and remains and also several silver coins apparently of norse origin. These remains were repatriated to the confederated tribes of Warm Springs in 1983 and have since been re-interred leaving unresolved arqueological questions.

In 1970, while attending the Vortex festival, Foster was seen wandering into the near-by woods, where he later claimed to have encountered and communicated with a Sasquatch. Said he, "The Sasquatch said, 'How are my stocks doing?'" Unfortunately Foster's camera was over exposed in a lab accident and the evidence was lost.

During the 1980 visit to San Francisco, Foster reported encountering a man in a white robe and headband covering his ears. This story was eventually related to Gedne Rodenberry and is believed to be the inspiration to the movie, ST 4.

Foster has claimed at least three marriages; the first in 1851; another in 1902, and the last one, with a grin, he refuses to say.

Foster volunteered in the clean-up of the Vanport Flood of 1947. He later reported finding was into the mud in North Portland an eldritch tentacled monster, looking a bit like Tlaloc the Rain God. The specimen was sent to Misketonic University, Foster's alma mater, but no published reports resulted.