John Parsons Foote
John Parsons Foote BIRTH 26 Jun 1783 Connecticut, USA DEATH 11 Jul 1865 (aged 82) Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA BURIAL Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA PLOT Garden LN, Section 77, Lot 90, Space 4 MEMORIAL ID 78931393 · View Source
MEMORIAL PHOTOS 5 FLOWERS 2 John Parsons Foote, 1783-1865, married Jane Warner. 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). Here is an excerpt: 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’ 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. He also wrote a biography of his brother
Family Members Parents Photo Eli Foote 1747–1792
Photo Roxanna Ward Foote 1751–1840
Spouse Photo Jane Warner Foote 1789–1863
Siblings Photo Harriet Foote 1773–1842
Photo Roxanna Foote Beecher 1775–1816
Photo Andrew Ward Foote 1776–1794
Photo William Henry Foote 1778–1794
Martha Foote 1781–1793
Photo Mary Ward Foote Hubbard 1785–1813
Photo Samuel Edmund Foote 1787–1858
Photo George Augustus Foote 1789–1878
Photo Catharine Foote 1792–1811
Children Photo Mary Ward Foote Shotwell 1813–1861
Photo John J. Foote 1815–1879
Photo Henry E. Foote 1825–1871
Gravesite Details Although his name is on the monument he is buried in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Eli’s son John Parsons Foote john parsons footeJohn Parsons Foote, 1783-1865, married Jane Warner. 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
"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
