Katherine Adelia Foote

Biography

Katherine Adelia Foote, or "Cousin Katherine" or "Kitty," was born in Delhi, New York, 27 September, 1845, probably her parents home, a two-story, wooden clapboard house on the corner of Division and Second Street. She died, I believe at Delhi, February, 1941.

Colophon for her book, Ebenezer Foote, the Founder...

Morituri Salutamus

With time and eyes and strength beginning to fail me, I seem to find the quotation used by Longfellow at the Commencement exercises of Bowdoin in 1875 a fitting phrase to put at the beginning of my attempts (before they are lost) to get into some form accessible to those who come after me, such a part of the voluminous correspondence of my great-grandfather, Judge Foote, as I possess, hoping that some fragments may have some faint interest for those who have belonged in any way to his village and mine. Therefore, not to Caesar, but to any who can be found to care to look them over, the letters and I say “Morituri Salutamus”.

Katherine Adelia Foote.