FOOTE, WILLARD P.

FOOTE, MCCOMBER, THOMPSON

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 21:40:45

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

WILLARD P. FOOTE, conductor of passenger train on the Iowa Division of the C. & N. W. R. R.; residence, No. 626 Tenth avenue; is a native of Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and was born Oct. 9, 1842; he grew to manhood in that State; when the war broke out, he entered the army, in the 16th N. Y. V. I. ; he was afterward transferred to 121st N. Y. V. 1. ; he was in the service three years; he came to Iowa in 1867, and has been connected with the C. & N. W. R. R. since July, 1868-over eleven years; is conductor of passenger train from Clinton to Boone. Mr. Foote married Miss Julia McComber, of Watertown, N.Y. She died leaving one son-Henry Herbert. He married Miss Gertrude E. Thompson, from Michigan, in 1877 ; they have one daughter-Florence H.