- E. A. FOOT, farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Footville; was born at
Goshen, Conn., in 1809. In 1845, he moved to what is now called
Footville. His first occupation was farming. In spring of 1846,
was elected Chairman of Town Board of Supervisors, which office
he held at different times for twelve years. In 1847, was elected
a member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1854, he went into
the produce business, and had as many as seven warehouses on
the road at once. In 1857, he was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly.
In 1861-62, was a member of the State Senate, and was Chairman
of the Finance Committee those two years. In 1862, was appointed
Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the State Hospital
for the Insane; held the position of Trustee until he resigned,
in 1869. In 1867, he was a member of the Wisconsin Assembly,
and Chairman of the Railroad Committee. In August, 1869, he went
to La Cygne, Kan., and remained there seven years. He was the
first Mayor of that city, and Police Judge for three years. In
the spring of 1876, he again returned to Footville, and, in 1877,
was elected Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, which position
he now holds. Has been a Notary Public for twenty years, both
here and in Kansas. June 4, 1829, he married Miss Clarissa BEACH,
daughter of Julius BEACH, of Connecticut. They have two children;
have lost one - Ruth R., who died in 1863; those living are Louisa
B., now Mrs. H. A. EGERTON, who resides at the old homestead,
and Rev. Joseph I., a resident of La Cygne, Kan. He graduated
at Lawrence University, Wis., in the class of 1857; was ordained
in 1859, in Conference at Whitewater, by Bishop AMES; was elected
Supervisor of Rock Co. In 1863, was elected Chaplain of the 13th
W. V. I.; while in the service was again elected Supervisor of
Rock Co.
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- [Transcriber's note: This is a partial biography; I don't
have the page the bio continues on]
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis.," (c)1879,
p. 853.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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