San Joaquin County Biographies

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ROBERT NELSON FOOTE.
 
        Among the recent additions to the ranks of horticulturists in the Linden 
section of San Joaquin County is Robert Nelson Foote, a representative of the 
well-known pioneer family of that name. For the past two years he has devoted 
his energies to fruit-growing and has made a very important success in this line 
of work. He is a native son of California, born at Marysville, September 23, 
1878, the eldest in a family of four living children of Forrest and Leila 
(Woodworth) Foote. His mother passed away and subsequently his father was 
married to Mrs. Laura A. Coburn and they were the parents of four children: 
Frank, Forrest, Gertrude and Vivian. The sketch of Forrest Foote will be found 
elsewhere in this volume. Robert Nelson was reared on the farm and received his 
education in the district school in his locality. Early in life he learned the 
practical side of farming, which has since been brought into use and has been 
the means of much of his success in fruit growing. He was in partnership with 
his father in ranching activities near Lockeford and later at Waterloo until 
1914 when he gave up ranching and entered the employ of the Harris Manufacturing 
Company at Stockton. There he learned mill work, which he followed for six 
years; then two years ago he purchased ten acres near Linden and has since 
followed fruit raising with gratifying success.
        In 1912, at Stockton, Mr. Foote was married to Miss Laura Bentz, a 
native of Shelbyville, Ill., a daughter of John C. Bentz, who since 1909 has 
resided on a ranch on Cherokee Lane, San Joaquin County. Their daughter, Ellen 
Marie, is a student in the Linden grammar school. Mr. Foote is a Democrat in 
politics and fraternally is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men at 
Stockton. He and his family are members of the Congregational Church. He has 
demonstrated his business qualifications through the successful control of his 
agricultural interests, which have made him one of the substantial farmers of 
the Linden community.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1332        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.