Henry
Ward
(Harry)
Foote
Born in Guilford New Haven Connecticut United States
Ancestors 
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 66
in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut United States
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Oct 2018
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Biography
Henry was born in 1875. He was the son of Christopher Foote and Hannah Hubbard.[1]
Sources
- ↑ * "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 26 February 2018, 01:10), entry for Henry Ward Foote(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:M2RT-4WZ)
The fourth child of Christopher Spencer Foote and Hannah Hubbard was Harry Ward Foote, born March 25, 1875. Henry Ward Foote was an authority on analytical chemistry and a member of the Yale faculty of forty-two years, according to his obituary which appeared in the New York Times on January 5, 1942. He specialised in inorganic and physical chemistry of mineralogy, and had been associate editor Of the American Journal of Science. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the America Chemical Society, His hobby was bee-keeping. Henry Ward Foote served as the collector-naturalist on the expedition made Hiram Bingham to Machu Picchu in 1911. The Yale Peruvian Expedition collection contains the many glass slides taken by Foote, He married Martha Babcock Jenkins on June, 22 1094. Harry and Martha had four children: William Jenkins Foote (1905-1976, columnist for many years for the Hartford Courant, who married Dorothy Hope Bennett: Edward Jenkins Foote (1910-1924) ; Mary Foote (1910-1975) who married John Denis Moore : Mary Spencer Foote (1921-) who married Franz Martin Oppenheimer
Source
Note
- He studied from 1899 to 1900 in Leipzig and Munich Germany.
Invention
- He was active in the research and in 1931 developed the first thermostat for
maintaining a constant low temperature.
Marriage
- Martha Babcock Jenkins daughter of William Thompson Jenkins and Katherine Babcock
Burial
- Foote- Ward Cemetery
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14530269/henry-ward-foote
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