Elisha Foote (1809 - 1883)

Born 1 Aug 1809 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Eunice (Newton) Foote — married about 12 Aug 1841 in East Bloomfield, New York [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 22 Oct 1883 at age 74 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Elisha Foote is Notable.

• Judge, inventor and mathematician^[1]
• son of Elisha Foote & Delia Battle; he was the 7th of 11 known children ^[2]
• lawyer: Studied law with Judge Daniel Cady of Johnstown, New York (father of Elizabeth Cady Stanton). Served as District Attorney in Seneca County. Specialized in Patent Law and made valuable inventions. ^[3]
• 12 Aug 1841 m. Eunice Newton (noted scientist & women's rights activist)^{[4] [5]}
• 1848: Signed the Declaration of Sentiments at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls as a male supporter. His spouse was an active participant in the convention and one of the 68 women who signed the Declaration. See Newton-8956.
• Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, for which he contributed various papers on scientific subjects, including several on mathematics of which he was extremely fond.
• Continuing his interest in patent law, Elisha served as Commissioner of the Board of Appeals of the US Patent Office in Washington, D.C. from 1866-69.

Entry for Elisha Foote, 1809-1883, from page 495 of Appleton's Cyclopedia Of American Biography Vol. 2, page 495: ^[6] FOOTE, Elisha, commissioner of patents, b. in Lee, Mass., 1 Aug., 1909; d. in St Louis, Mo., 22 Oct., 1883. He was educated at the Albany institute, and studied law with Judge Daniel Cady in Johnstown, N. Y., meanwhile supporting himself by teaching and surveying. After being admitted to the bar, he settled in western New York, and was district attorney and then judge of the court of common pleas of Seneca county. His specialty was patent law, and he made severable valuable inventions. In 1864 he was appointed to the board of appeals at the U.S. patent office, where from July 1868, until April, 1869, he was commissioner.

Burial in Brooklyn, New York, in the Green-Wood Cemetery, Section 34, Lot 8379

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Elisha Foote, accessed 9 May 2018.
2. ↑ Foote, Abram. Foote Family: Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn. and his Descendants. Rutland, VT: Marble City Press, 1907. Vol. 1, 224-225 and 352-353.
3. ↑ Abram Foote, Vol 1, page 352.
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote], accessed 9 May 2018.
5. ↑ Leonard, Ermina Newton (compiler). Newton genealogy, genealogical, biographical, historical; being a record of the descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, with genealogies of families descended from the immigrants, Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, Connecticut, Thomas Newton of Fairfield, Connecticut, Matthew Newton of Stonington, Connecticut, Newtons of Virginia, Newtons near Boston. De Pere, Wis. : Bernard Ammidown Leonard. 1915. Page 720, Person #370. Google Books (books.google.com), web. 2 May 2019.
6. ↑ https://ia600303.us.archive.org/26/items/AppletonsCyclopediaOfAmericanBiographyVol.2/AppletonsCyclopediaAmericanBioVol2.pdf

See Also

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCZX-PL9
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90957196/elisha_foote