Born in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Isaac Newton Jr.
and Thirza (Unknown) Newton
Sister of
Cynthia Maria (Newton) Collins, Morris Newton, Seymour Newton, Amanda Newton, Althea Newton, Darius Newton, Silas Newton, Mary (Newton) Clark, John Newton and Adeline (Newton) Whitmore
Wife of
Elisha Foote
— married
about 12 Aug 1841 in East Bloomfield, New York [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Mother of
Mary (Foote) Henderson and Augusta Newton (Foote) Arnold
Died
at age 69
in Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
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Biography
Eunice (Newton) Foote is Notable.
Eunice was born on July 15, 1819 on a farm in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. She was the 11th and last child born to to Isaac Newton Jr. (farmer) and his wife Thirza (last name at birth not known). Soon after Eunice's birth, her parents moved the family to a farm near East Bloomfield in western New York State, where the soil was much more fertile than the rocky soils of New England.
Eunice's early education is not well documented, but from age 17 to 19 she was a pupil at the Troy Female Seminary. This was the first institution of higher education for women in the United States. Here, Foote and other attendees studied languages, philosophy, and mathematics. They also were permitted to take science courses taught in novel hands-on laboratories at the nearby Rensselaer School (now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)."[3]
On August 12, 1840, Eunice married Elisha Foote, a judge on the East Bloomfield circuit who was also an inventor and statistician. [4]
[ Move to Seneca Falls - husband was appointed judge] In 1848, when Eunice was 29, she not only attended the Seneca Falls Convention, but was appointed as one of five women "to prepare the proceedings for publication". She also was bold enough to actually sign the famous Declaration of Sentiments along with 67 other women. Notably, her husband Elisha Foote was one of the 32 men who signed as supporters. [5]
- https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2011/70092sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf.html
- Per the Newton genealogy published in 1915, "Mrs. Foote was a fine portrait and landscape painter. She was an inventive genius and a person of unusual beauty. They resided at Seneca Falls, N.Y. where their children were born, and later at Saratoga, N.Y."
After Elisha's death, she lived in Brooklyn, New York, most of the year, and spent her summers in the resort town of Lenox, a resort in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. She died in Lenox on September 30, 1888 at age 69. [6]
Eunice is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. [7]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wikipedia: Eunice Newton Foote, accessed 9 May 2018.
- ↑ "We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century." Hot Mess (channel). 19 April 2018. Youtube. Web. 9 May 2018.
- ↑ Joosse, Tess. "This month in Physics History: August 1856: Eunice Foote Concludes That Carbon Dioxide Could Warm the Atmosphere, Three Years Before John Tyndall did." APS News, July/August 2023 (Vol. 32, Number 7). https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202307/history.cfm
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wellman, Judith. The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Pages 203, 205 and 223.
- ↑ Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts State Archives. September 29, 1888. p. 47. line #35. Retrieved July 8, 2022. age: 69 y 1 mo 12 d; residence: Lennox & Brooklyn, New York; parents: Isaac & Thirza R. Newton
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #102362994. Eunice Newton Foote.
See also:
- Mitchell, Jeff. "Righting a Scientific Wrong." The Currant. 10 May 2018. UC Santa Barbara. Web. 19 May 2018.
- “Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays,” by Eunice Foote, Art. XXXI., pp. 382-83 , The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series, Vol. XXII (G.P. Putnam & Co., Nov. 1856), available on GoogleBooks.
- McNeill, Leila. “This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because Sexism”, 5 Dec 2016, Smithsonian Magazine, at smithsonianmag.com.
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Abstract: "According to conventional wisdom John Tyndall was the first to measure the variation in absorption of radiant energy by atmospheric gases and the first to predict the impact on climate of small changes in atmospheric gas composition. Overlooked by modern researchers is the work of Eunice Foote, who, three years prior to the start of Tyndall's laboratory research, conducted similar experiments on absorption of radiant energy by atmospheric gases, such as CO2 and water vapor. The presentation of her report at a major scientific convention in 1856 was accompanied by speculation that even modest increases in the concentration of CO2 could result in significant atmospheric warming. "
Source: Sorenson, Raymond P. Eunice Foote's Pioneering Research On CO2 And Climate Warming. Search and Discovery Article #70092 (2011), Posted January 31, 2011. https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2011/70092sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf.html
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