FOOTE
FOOTE
edited a weekly paper. In 1831 he became associ-
ate editor of a JS'e w York weekly journal, devoting
his spare time to the study of medicine. He was
tlien editor of the Brooklj-n Morning Journal for
two years. Giving up journalism he devoted
himself to the study of medicine, and was grad-
uated from the Peun medical university in IbiGO.
He was elected a member of the National eclec-
tic medical association; of the Eclectic medical
society of the state of New York; of the N.Y.
county eclectic medical society; of the Connect-
icut society of the sous of the American Revolu-
tion, the Ohio societj' of New York and other
organizations. He was corresponding secretary
of the N.Y. state eclectic medical society from
18S6 to 1898 -with the exception of one year. He
edited Dr. Foote's Ilfalth Monthly ; and is the
author of: Medical Common jS'eHse (1857-58) ; Plain
Home Talk, embracinr/ Medical Common Sense
(1870) ; Science in Story (5 vols., 1875) ; and some
fifteen or twenty monographs on subjects relating
to medicine, physiology, hygiene and the human
temperaments.
FOOTE, Edward Bond, physician, was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1854; son of Edward Bliss and Catheriiie Goodnough (Bond) Foote. He was graduated from the medical de- partment of Columbia university in 1876, and became associated with his father in the practice of naedicine and in the management of Dr. Foote's H'llth Monthly. He was iiresident of the Man- hattan Liberal club, 1887-98. He invented the polyopticon in 1880, and is the author of: Health in the Sunhmm (1876) ; Bacteria in Its Relation to Disease (18S0) ; Dr. Foote's Health H'nts (1882) ; An lUH-ttraled Treatise on Gymecolnrpj (1886) ; The lindirnl I?emedy in Social Science (1884) ; a.nd Food : Wloit is ]l,st t„ Eat (1890).
FOOTE, Henry Stuart, senator, was born in Fauquier county, Va., Sept. 20, 1800. He was graduated at Washington college, Lexington. Va., in 1820, and was admitted to the bar in 1823. He removed to Tuscimibia, Ala., in 1824, and to Jackson, Miss., iu 1826. He was a presidential elector in 1844, and served in the U.S. senate, 1847-52, being chairman of senate committee on foreign relations in 1848. He was an advocate of compromise raea,sures in 1850. He was elected governor of Mississippi in 1853, defeating Jeffer- son Davis, and served, 1853-54. He removed to California in 1852, and to Vicksburg, Miss., in 1858. He was a delegate to the Southern conven- tion at Knoxville. Tcnn., in May, 1859, where he opposed secession, and when Mississippi was about to secede he removed to Memphis, Tenn. He jvas a representative in the Confederate con- gress, where he opposed the administration and favored the terms of peace offered by President Lincoln in 1868 and 1864. He left Riclmiond in
1864 and made his home in Wa.shington, D.C.
After the war he resided at Nashville, Tenn. He
was sui^erLntendeut of the U.S. mint in New Or-
leans, La., by appointment of President Grant,
1869-79, resigning iu the latter year. He was a
principal in several duels and personal encoun-
ters, notably his duels with Sergeant S. Prentiss,
with John A. Winston, and with John F. H. Clai-
borne, and his encounter with Senator Benton
on the floor of congress. He pulilished : Texas
and the Texans (ISil) ; T/ie War of the liebellion
(1866); Bench and Bar of the Sonth and So^lthtcest
(1876): and Personal Peminiscenres. He died at
his home near Nashville. Tenn., May 20, 1880.
FOOTE, Lucius Harwood, dii)lomatist, was born in AVinfield, Herkimer coimty, N.Y., April 10, 1826; son of the Rev. Lucius and Electa (Har- wood) Foote, and a direct descendant from Nathaniel Foote, 1633. In 1836 he removed with his parents to Rockford, 111., and attended Knox college and Western
Reserve college. In
1853 he went to Cali-
fornia, where he was
admitted to the bar
in Sacramento in
1856. He was muni-
cipal judge of Sacra-
mento, 1856-60 ; col-
lector of customs,
1861-65, and adju-
tant-general of Cali-
fornia, 1872-76. He
was a delegate to the
Republican national
convention in 1876
and two years later
was appointed by President Hayes consul to Val-
])araiso. Chili, becoming charye d' affaires in 1881,
upon the death of U.S. minister Judson S. Kil-
patrick. He was one of the final arbitrators in
the settlement of the boundary question between
Chili and the Argentine Republic and induced
the Chilian government to call its congress to-
gether to ratify the same. In 1882 he was sent
to Central America on a special mission, receiv-
ing the thanks of the state department for the
settlement of the question involved. While there
he was appointed envoy extraordinary and min-
ister plenipotentiary to Korea, with instructions
to negotiate changes in the treaty made by Ad-
miral Shufeldt, to exchange the ratifications of
the same, and to establish a legation in Korea if
he thought it advisable. AVithin a few months
he established the mo.st cordial relations with the
government. At his suggestion the first embas.sy
was .sent to the United States, and by his advice
France, Russia and Germany were invited to
enter into treaty relations with Korea. During
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