San Joaquin County Biographies


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FORREST FOOTE.
 
        For many years Forrest Foote was a prosperous agriculturalist 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, N. Y., 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.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1336       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.