"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES
INDIANA"  GOODSPEED BROS.  1884

WINTHOP A. FOOTE is a native of the town and county where he now lives and
has always resided, his birth occurring December 15, 1832, one of five
children born to Dr. Winthrop and Cynthia C. (BARLOW) FOOTE.  Dr. Winthrop
FOOTE  was born November 30, 1787, early in life graduating in both law and
medicine, as well as the classics and sciences.  He left Connecticut to seek
his fortune in the West, and in 1816 located at old Palestine, in Lawrence
County, Ind.  Ten years later, on the removal of the county seat, he came to
Bedford, where for a time he engaged in legal pursuits, and was elected
State's Attorney.  Preferring the practice of medicine to that of law, he
resumed the practice of the former and made his home at Bedford until his
death, August 2, 1856.  Dr. FOOTE was a man far superior to his early
associates in point of education and intellect.  He acquired a large amount
of property by industry, and May 22, 1823 was married.  He at one time
predicted that stone from what is known as the "Blue Hole" would be shipped
to New York.  This prediction, when there was no railroad or prospect of one
in this part of the country, was remarkable.  He lies buried by the side of
his brother in a solid stone vault near Bedford.  W. A. FOOTE, subject of
this sketch, received a liberal education at Newton, Cayenne., and also took
a commercial course at Cincinnati.  He then clerked in Bedford five or six
years;  then embarked in business for himself with D. W. PARKER, his present
partner, and their partnership has continued about twenty-two years.
September 16, 1858, Juliet CURTIS, of Newton, Conn., became his wife, and
both he and wife belong to the Presbyterian Church.  Although no children
have been born to them, they have reared two, adopting one.  Until the
firing of Fort Sumter Mr. FOOTE was a Democrat;   since then he has been a
Republican. 


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