Appletons' cyclopaedia von amerikanischen Biografie. -50,undder 1852 das gleiche Amt in Wien, Bearbeitung im Intervall der Albany State registrieren. Herr Footes editorial Schriften waren Unterschieden forwit und Gnade der Diktion. Er war ein Mann der umfang- reichen Lesen und ein unterhaltsames Talker. FOOTE, William Henry, Pfarrer, b) in Kol-chester, Anschl.,20 Dez, 1794; d. Bei Romney, W. Virginia, 18 Nov. 1809. Er war an der Yale University im Jahre 1810 graduierte, unterrichtete Schule für kurze Zeit in Winden - ter, Va., 1818, und im gleichen Jahr thetheological Seminar in Princeton eingetragen, wurde aber Kom-pelled durch Beeinträchtigung der Gesundheit zu verlassen.

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Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . -50, andin 1852 held the same office in Vienna, editing inthe interval the Albany State Register. Mr.Footes editorial writings were distinguished forwit and grace of diction. He was a man of exten-sive reading and an entertaining talker. FOOTE, William Henry, clergyman, b. in Col-chester, Conn., 20 Dec, 1794; d. at Romney, W.Va., 18 Nov., 1809. He was graduated at Yale in1810, taught school for a short time in Winches-ter, Va., in 1818, and in the same year entered thetheological seminary at Princeton, but was com-pelled to leave by impaired health. He was thenlicensed to preach, and engaged in missionarylabor among the backwoodsmen of the northernneck of Virginia. In 1824 he was ordained pastorof the Presbyterian church at Romney, W. Va., and established at the same time a school for bothsexes, which became a large and prosperous insti-tution. In 1838 he was appointed agent of thecentral board of foreign missions of the Presby-terian church, and during this work, which ledvol. ii.—32. him to visit many counties in the state, be col-lected the materials for his sketched of Virginia, In 1845 he returned to Romney as pastor and su-perintendent of the academy, and there continued till 1801, when he became agent for Bampden- Sidney college. Although h<; was a Union manthroughout the civil war, he shared the fate of huadopted state, and during the siege of Petersburgwas chaplain to a Confederate regiment. At the close of the war he returned to Romney. where heremained till his death. Ilampden-Sidney gavehim the degree of 1). I), in 1847. His; publishedworks are Sketches, Historical and Biographical, of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia n (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1850-5), and Sketches in NorthCarolina (New York, 1840). FORAKER, Joseph Benson, governor of Ohio, b. near Rainsborough, Highland CO., Ohio, 5 July, 1846. He worked on a farm in his boyhood.and when sixteen years of age enlisted in the 89thOhio regiment, and served in

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