# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morrison-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:37:02.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morrison-foster"
name: "Morrison Foster"
slug: "morrison-foster"
description: "Morrison Foster was the older brother, business agent and biographer for Stephen Foster, a composer and lyricist of early American music. When Stephen Foster died at age 37, Morrison continued to manage Stephen's estate and acted as a mediator between music publishers and Stephen Foster's wife and daughter. Documents demonstrate his correspondence with publishers in his receipt of royalty payments on behalf of Stephen's heirs. Morrison also wrote the first biography of Stephen Foster. Morrison's daughter Evelyn Foster Morneweck, wrote a biography about her uncle, Chronicles of Stephen Foster's Family."
tagline: "Brother of Stephen Foster (1823-1904)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morrison_Foster.PNG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1823-06-10"
deathDate: "1904-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.539633333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Foster"
    title: "Morrison Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198572"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations