John Parsons Foote

John Parsons Foote was born at ___ Connecticut, 26 Jun 1783 to Eli Foote and Roxanna Ward, daughter of Gen. Andrew Ward.

He died at ___ 11 Jul 1865 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio (aged 82) buried Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, [Garden LN, Section 77, Lot 90, Space 4 findagrave;78931393, Foote Family;]

John Parsons Foote, 1783-1865, married Jane Warner 1789–1863.

John Parsons Foote, his wife Jane, and their four children are buried in Cincinnati, but they are commemorated on one of the obelisks in the General Andrew Ward Cemetery. His bust resides in the Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, and a short biography of him appears in the blog for that entity (www.cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com).

Their Children [Foote Hist;1;201]

1. Mary Ward Foote, born 22 August, 1813; married Dr. John Shotwell, 1813–1861. She died 1864.
2. Henry Ward Foote, 17 February, 1817; died 17 September, 1822, in Cincinnati.
3. Edward Warner Foote, b. 25 May, 1819; died 23 November, 1821, Cincinnati.
4. Catherine Amelia Foote, b. 26 October, 1824, died 13 May, 1902 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania married first, Wiliam Henry Comstock, and second, Dr. J.A. Stayman, 15 Feb. 1868 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
5. Henry Edward Foote, 1825–1871. Union Civil War Officer and Surgeon. He was born in Ohio, and lived in Cincinnati. He served the US Volunteer Army as a Surgeon first with the 13th Missouri Infantry and then with the 22nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the rank of Major. Married Louise Agniel.

Foote Family, Abram Foote, p.

John Parsons Foote [was born] 26 June, 1783 at Guilford, Connecticut; adopted by his uncle, Justin Foote. Married Jane Warner, born February 22, 1789 in New York City, daughter of James Warner.
He died 11 July, 1865 in Cincinnati, Ohio; member of the firm of J. & J.P. Foote, Merchant Marine, N.Y. Came to Cincinnati in 1820. in company with Mr. White and Oliver H. Wells, founded in 1820 the Cincinnati Type Foundry, publishers of the "Literary Gazette," edited by Mr. Foote. 1825 was on of compnay which purhcased the Cincinnati Water Works, and was made and remained President until its sale to the city in 1840. A director in Louisville (Ohio River) Canal; a trustee of Cincinnati College; a Trustee of Common Schools; a Trustee of Ohio Medical College; President Academy of Natural Science; First President of the Society for Promotion of Useful Knowlege; Vice-President of the Historical Society; Secretary Cincinnati Law School; President Cincinnati Astronomical Society, 1845 (its existance mainly due to his exertions); Officer, Ohio Mehanics' Institute (framed its Constitution), Chairman of the first meeting of the House of Refuge (in compnay with J.H. Perkins, he was mainly instrumental in its establishment), one of the Founders of Spring Grove Cemetery in 1844, and one of its Directors until death; one of hte Organizers of the Horticultural Society, member until death.

Sources

• the press of the Cincinnati Type Foundry is on display at the the Internaitonal Printing Museum, Carson, California.
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24293394/wells-oliver-type-foundry-the/

"Busts of the Mercantile," by Nemo Wolf

“Busts of the Mercantile” Wednesday: John Parsons Foote img_0429.jpgMost of the busts in the collection reflect, in a city with a Roman moniker and a Capitoline wolf parked on one of the approximately seven hills, an appropriately Roman sensibility in that many of the other sitters – or whoever was picking up the tab – directed the sculptors to go totally realistic the way all those tribunes and proconsuls preferred. Warts and all. Certainly that is the case with John P. Foote. He’s no matinee idol, but you have to like a guy who looks not unlike a nineteenth century Jim Tarbell before the alopecia set in. The similarity to the city’s current vice mayor goes beyond the physical. Printer and writer J.P. Foote was a relentless Cincinnati booster. We here at the Library believe John and his brother Sam had as much to do with the Lyman Beecher family coming to Cincinnati than the Board of Directors of the Lane Seminary did. The Footes’ (Feete’s?) sister Roxana was Lyman Beecher’s wife and the mother of his many children, including Harriet. Roxana had died by the time the Beechers moved to Cincinnati, and Lyman was on his second wife, but you have to figure that he at least wrote to his brothers-in-law to see what he would be getting into if he uprooted everybody from Connecticut to go live on the frontier. John Foote wrote the first history of education in Cincinnati. It’s in the stacks here. Somewhere.

-Nemo Wolfe

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78931393/john-parsons-foote

• https://generalandrewwardcemeteryassoc.wordpress.com/elis-son-john-parsons-foote/