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Foote, Edward Bond

physician, inventor, journalist, author, was born Aug. 15, 1854, in Cleveland, Ohio. He invented and patented a wonder camera, which has become widely known under the name of polyopticon.

FOOT ELIAL TODD, physician, legislator, jurist, was born May 1, 1796, in Gill, Mass. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1820 and in 1826- 27; associate judge of common pleas in 1818-23, and in the latter year became first judge of Chautauqua county, holding the office till 1843, when he retired. He died Nov. 17, 1877, in New Haven, Conn.

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