Foote, Andrew Hull – Forbes, Samuel Franklin
Foote, Andrew Hull
naval officer, author, was born Sept. 12, 1806, in New Haven, Conn. His father was Samuel Augustus Foote, known in United States political history as the mover of Foote's resolutions.
In 1858 he was placed in command of the Brooklyn navy yard; in 1862 was made rear admiral; and received the surrender of Island No. 10. He was the author of Africa and the American Flag. He died June 6, 1863, in New York city.
Foote, Arthur William
musician, was born March 5, 1853, in Salem, Mass. His published works include about twenty compositions for the piano-forte, songs, vocal quartettes, three pieces for violoncello and piano-forte, three pieces for violin and piano-forte, a string quartette, a trio for piano-forte, violin and violoncello.
Foote, Charles A
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1825. He died Aug. 1, 1828, in Delaware county.
Foote, Edward Bliss
physician, journalist, author, was born Feb. 20, 1829, in Cleveland, Ohio. In his practice he has made a specialty of chronic diseases.
He is editor of Dr. Foote's Health Monthly; and is the author of Medical Common Sense; and Science in Story.
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.
Foote, Elisha
lawyer, jurist, inventor, was born Aug. 1, 1809, in Lee, Mass. In 1864 he was appointed to the board of appeals at the United States patent office, and in 1868-69 was commissioner. He died Oct. 22, 1883, in St. Louis, Mo.
Foote, George Anderson
physician, was born Dec. 16, 1835, in Warren county, N. C. He was a surgeon in the confederate army during the civil war.
Foote, Henry Stuart
lawyer, statesman, author, was born Sept. 20, 1800, in Fauquier county, Va. In 1847 he was elected from Mississippi a senator in congress, where he remained until 1852; and was elected governor of Mississippi in 1852. He was the author of Texas and the Texans; The War of the Rebellion, or Scylla and Charybdis; Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest; and Personal Reminiscences. He died May 20, 1880, in Nashville, Tenn.
Foote, Henry Wilder
clergyman, author, was born June 2, 1838, in Salem, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, minister of King's Chapel from 1861 till his death; and the author of Annals of King's Chapel; Thy Kingdom Come, ten sermons on the Lord's prayer; and The Insight of Faith.
Foote, John Howard
musical expert, poet, was born Nov. 11, 1833, in Canton, Conn. In 1863 he established the firm of John H. Foote and Company, importers of musical instruments; in which business he has attained success.
Foote, John Johnson
druggist, state senator, was born Feb. 11, 1816, in Hamilton, N. Y. He engaged in the drug business in Hamilton; and in 1857 was elected to the senate of the state of New York. In 1865 he moved to Belvidere, Ill.
Foote, Lucius H
soldier, lawyer, diplomat, was born April 10, 1826, in Winfield, N. Y. He was judge of the municipal court of Sacramento, Cal., from 1854 to 1860; and in 1861 was appointed collector of the port of Sacramento. He was adjutant-general of the state from 1872 to 1876; was appointed United States consul at Valparaiso, Chili, in 1879; and was acting charge d'affaires to Chili in 1882. In 1883 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Corea.
Foote, Mrs. Mary Hallock
artist, author, was born Nov. 19, 1847, in Milton, N. Y. She is the author of The Led Horse Claim, a Romance of a Mining Camp; In Exile, and Other Stories; John Bodewin's Testimony; The Chosen Valley; Cœur d'Alene; The Last Assembly Ball; and The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories.
Foote, Thomas Moses
journalist, diplomat, was born in 1809, in Clinton, N. Y. In 1849 he was appointed charge d'affaires to New Grenada; and in 1852 was appointed to the same position near the government of Austria. He died Feb. 20, 1858, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Foote, Wallace Turner
lawyer, congressman, was born April 7, 1864, in Port Henry, N. Y. He is now at the head of the firm of Foote, Stokes and Owen, doing a general law business at that place. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Foote, William Henry
clergyman, educator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1794, in Colchester, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator of West Virginia, and the author of Sketches of North Carolina; Sketches of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia; The Huguenots, or Reformed French Church; and Sketches of Virginia. He died Nov. 18, 1869, in Romney, W. Va.
Foraker, Joseph Benson
soldier, lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born July 5, 1846, near Rainsboro, Highland county, Ohio.
He enlisted July 14, 1862, as a private in company A, eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, with which organization he served until the close of the war, at which time he held the rank of first lieutenant and brevet captain. He was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879; resigned on account of ill-health in 1882. He was the republican candidate for governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated; and was elected to that office in 1885, and re-elected in 1887. He was again nominated for governor and defeated in 1889; and was elected United States senator and took his seat March 4, 1897.
Foran, Martin Ambrose
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1844, in Susquehanna county, Pa.
He was city prosecutor of Cleveland from 1875 to 1877; was an unsuccessful candidate for police judge in 1881; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Forbes, Charles Edwin
philanthropist, was born Aug. 25, 1795, in Bridgewater, Mass. He attained a national prominence as a philanthropist. He died Feb. 13, 1881, in Northampton, Mass.
Forbes, Edwin
artist, was born in 1839, in New York city. Since 1878 he has devoted himself to landscape and cattle pictures. His later works are Early Morning in an Orange County Pasture; Roughing; On the Meadows; and Evening in the Sheep Pasture.
Forbes, Eli
clergyman, was born in October, 1726, in Westborough, Mass. In 1758-59 he twice acted as chaplain of a provincial regiment, and in 1762 conducted a successful mission to the Oneida Indians, among whom he established a church and two schools. He died Dec. 15, 1804, in Gloucester, Mass.
Forbes, Mrs. Harriette
(MER- RIFIELD), author, was born in 1856, in Massachusetts. She is a writer of Westborough, Mass., and the author of The Hundredth Town, a series of historical sketches of Westborough; and A Lily Stalk, studies of child life.
Forbes, James
congressman. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780.
Forbes, John
librarian, was born in 1771, in Scotland. He was librarian of the New York society library, being prominent during that time among literary men in New York city. He died Oct. 4, 1824, in New York.
Forbes, John Franklin
educator, college president, was born June 13, 1853, in Middlesex, N. Y. He was professor of Greek and Latin in the state normal school at Brockway, N. Y., which position he resigned in 1885 to accept the presidency of the recently established De Land academy, subsequently John B. Stetson university, of De Land, Fla.
Forbes, John Murray
clergyman, was born in 1806. In 1869 he was elected dean of the General Theological seminary, resigning from that office in 1872. He died in 1885 in Elizabeth, N. J.
Forbes, Robert
clergyman, lecturer, was born Nov. 13, 1844, in Canada. He is a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate in Duluth, Minn. He has been a presiding elder; chaplain of the Minnesota senate; and orator and grand chaplain of the grand lodge of the A. F. and A. M.
He is a brilliant public lecturer, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Forbes, Robert Bennet
merchant, author, was born in 1804, in Massachusetts. He was a sea captain, and subsequently a Boston merchant. He was the author of China and the China Trade; Construction of Ships for the Merchant Service; Life Boats, Projectiles, and Other Means for Saving Life; Seamen Past and Present; Rambling Reminiscences; and Notes on Some Few Wrecks and Rescues.
Forbes, Samuel Franklin
surgeon, author, was born June 8, 1829, in Canton, Conn. In 1886 he was mayor of Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several medical works. 1