HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 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 3, 1838, in Salem, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston; and minister of King's Chapel in 1861-89. He was the author of Annals of King's Chapel; Thy Kingdom Come, ten sermons on the Lord's Prayer; and The Insight of Faith. He died May 29, 1889, in Boston, Mass. Foote, John Bartlett, clergyman, genealogist, was born July 1, 1826, in Martinsburg, N.Y. He was the first graduate of the first theological school of the methodist church. Since 1848 he has been a preacher in the methodist church, including eight years as presiding elder; and was a, member of the general conference in 1864 at Philadelphia, Pa. He has helped in fifty national holiness camp meetings in
twenty
different
and has helped altogether in one hundred and forty camp meetings. He was states;
secretary of the Xew York state convention that started the Syracuse university; and is now chaplain of the penitentiary at Syracuse, N.Y. He is the author of The Genealogy of the John Foote Family. 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. He died May 17, 1896, in Canton Center, Mass. Foote, lucius Harwood, soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, 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 1883. In 1883 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Corea. He is the author of On the Heights; Red Letter Day; Corean Folk Lore; and other works. Foote, Mrs. Mary Hallock, artist, author, was born Nov. 19, 1847, in Milton, N.Y. In 1876 she was married to Arthur De Wint Foote, of Connecticut, a civil and mining enShe is the author of The Led Horse gineer. Claim, u Romance of a Mining Camp; In Exile, and Other Stories; John Bodewin's Testimony; The' Chosen Valley; Coeur d'Alene; The Last Assembly Ball; and The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories.
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Foote, Morris Cooper, soldier, was born 16. 1843, in Sackett's Harbor, N.Y. During the civil war he attained the rank of captain in the New York volunteers. In 1886 he entered the regular army; and became brigadier-general. He died in 1905 in Philadelphia, Pa. Foote, Nathaniel, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 15, 1849, in Morrisville, N.Y. In 18731905 he practiced law in Rochester, N.Y. In 1892-94 he was first president of the Rochester bar association. In 1905 he was elected justice of the supreme court of New York for the term of 1906-20. Foote, Samuel Augustus, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Nov. 8, 1780, in Cheshire, Conn. For several years he was a member of the Connecticut house of representatives; and was twice its speaker. In 1819-31 and in 183325 he was a representative from Connecticut to the sixteenth and eighteenth congresses. In 1827-33 he was a member of the United States senate. In 1833-34 he was a member of congress; and in 1834-35 was governor of the state of Connecticut. He died Sept. 15, 1846, in Cheshire, Conn. Foote, Theodore Clinton, clergyman, author, was born about 1860 at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. In 1886-89 he was master and chapSept.
lain of Racine college, Wisconsin; and since then has filled pastorates in Ohio and MarySince 1903 he has been an instructor land. in bibliographical literature in the Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, Md. He is the author of Catechism Hymns; Outlines of English Grammar; and other works. 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.
Foote, Wallace Turner, lawyer, congressman, was born April 7, 1864, in Port Henry, N.Y. He is at the head of the firm of Foote, Stokes and Owen, doing a general law business at Port Henry, N.Y. In 189599 he was a representative to the fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. Foote, William Henry, clergyman, educator, author, was born Dec. 30, 1794, in Col-
Conn. He was a presbyterian chester, clergyman and educator of West Virginia. He was 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. Foran, Martin Ambrose, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1844, He was city in Susquehanna county, Pa. 1875-77. In prosecutor of Cleveland in 1883-89 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
