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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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