Sacramento County
Biographies
CLAUDE EUGENE FOOTE
CLAUDE EUGENE FOOTE.—A young man whose
already valuable experience, together with his broad and patriotic views, has
proven of real service to the community in which he operates and is
phenomenally successful, is Claude Eugene Foote, a native son who was born at Sacramento
on August 17, 1891. His father, John A. Foote, came out to California
in 1864, a native of Carroll
County, born near Savannah,
Ill., and here married miss Hattie Alice
Shearer, who had come from Frederick County, Md., in 1887. They were both
pioneers, therefore, and our subject is naturally imbued with the true California
spirit. Grandfather William Foote was a contractor of note, and saw his
eighty-seventh year; while Grandmother Foote survived him nearly four
years. John A. Foote was a farmer during the long years of his progressive
toil, and now he is able to rest comfortably in well-earned retirement.
Claude
Eugene Foote not only attended the grammar school of his district, but he went
through the excellent Sacramento high school, and finally
topped off his studies at the Capital
Commercial College. Then
he became an employee of the Southern Pacific, entering their store department
and advancing to office work, and after that he joined the Union Oil Company,
also doing office work. Then he was with the Firestone Tire & Rubber
Company, as a traveling representative in northern California
and Nevada, and in June, 1917, he
cast his fortunes in with the Earl P. Cooper Battery and Electrical Company,
located at 1014 Twelfth Street,
engaged in battery and electrical service. However, on May 31, 1922, they
changed the corporation name to Garvey-Foote, Inc., and in September, 1922,
sold the Sacramento store and removed to San
Francisco, where the headquarters are at 382
Golden Gate Avenue as manufacturers and
agents. Their specialty now consists in selling replacement parts for
automobiles. Mr. Foote takes care of all of the outside business, at
present, necessitating his traveling continually all over the state of California. Mr.
Foote is both vice-president and manager, and assists to direct the twelve
people employed in their constantly developing business. The concern
covers the Sacramento territory, and handles the
incomparable Prestolite batteries for northern California
and the state of Nevada. One
of the most natural things for Mr. Foote to do, on establishing himself in Sacramento,
was to join the well-organized Chamber of Commerce, and he has done his part to
make that excellent organization still more effective in the great work of California
development. He also belongs to the California Auto Trades Association, is
one of the honored representatives in the Rotary Club, and is a member of the
Del Paso County Club. He generally votes to endorse the Republican
platforms, which means that he does what he can at the polls to safeguard
American commercial interests, and to favor California.
At
Stockton, Mr. Foote was married in 1913 to Miss Clare Sue Gill, a native of Iowa,
but recently a resident of Santa Rosa, and their union has been blessed in the birth of two
children, Jean Elizabeth and Alice Sue. Mr. Foote is an Elk and a Mason,
and has advanced to the thirtieth degree, Scottish Rite. He
is fond of golf and also of fishing, and enjoys with Mrs. Foote and the family
most of the pleasures of out-of-door life, for which California
is so famous.
Transcribed 7-16-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 963-964. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.