Edwin G. Foreman, president of Foreman Bro. Banking Company, one of the best known business man in Chicago, died, Thursday, in San Francisco where he went several weeks ago to visit the World's Fair. Mr. Foreman was born 53 years ago in Chicago. He attended the public schools and began his business career in 1879. He was at that time a messenger-boy in the Corn Exchange National Bank, and when he died, he was one of the Directors of this bank. In the year 1882, he entered the business of his father, Gerhart Foreman, who ran a private bank. When in the year 1897, the Foreman Bros. Banking Company was established, the deceased became its president. Mr. Foreman was taken suddenly ill three weeks ago. They placed him in a sanatorium, but his condition grew worse from day to day, until last Thursday. He leaves a widow and three children.