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FORREST FOOTE
For many years Forrest Foote was a
prosperous agriculturist near the town of Waterloo, where he owned a ranch
consisting of 200 acres, and also a ranch of 160 acres in the northeastern part
of the county of San Joaquin. He is now
living retired at his residence, 1324 North Lincoln Street, Stockton. He was born in Steuben County, New York,
March 5, 1852 a son of Dr. Erastus N. Foote and Marie H. (White) Foote. Dr. Foote, who was engaged in the practice of
medicine in Steuben County, came out to California in 1852, making the trip via
Panama, and for several years he was engaged in both placer and quartz mining
in this state. He was a partner in the
Foote & Thompson Gold Mining Company, which operated near Mokelumne Hill,
and his gold mining enterprises were successful. He subsequently moved to Comanche, in
Calaveras County, where he practiced medicine and later continued his
profession in Lockeford, San Joaquin County, where he was a widely known and
accomplished physician for many years. He died there in his seventy-ninth
year. He was a Mason as well as a member
of the State Medical Society.
Forrest Foote, the third oldest of
the family, was four years old when he accompanied his mother and a sister from
New York via Panama to California, where they joined the father in Calaveras
County. He received his early education
in Calaveras and San Joaquin counties, taking up agricultural pursuits in
youth, and until his retirement from the active duties of life, he devoted his
chief energies to that occupation, in which he gained pronounced success. He located on his ranch near Waterloo in
1901.
Mr. Foote’s first marriage united
him with Miss Leila Woodworth, who was born in Nova Scotia, and who became the
mother of five children, four of whom are living: Robert N., Myrtle, Ralph M. and Marie. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Foote
subsequently was married to Mrs. Laura Coburn (nee Finn) of Plymouth, a daughter
of Robert Finn, one of the pioneers of Amador County. Four children were born of this second
marriage: Frank, Forrest, Gertrude and
Vivian. Mr. Foote is affiliated with
Vesper Lodge No. 94, Knights of Pythias, and with Progressive Lodge No. 134, I.
O. O. F., both at Lockeford.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1336. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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