Addison

FOOTE, Abram William & Rollin Abram

Biography of Abram William FOOTE (son of Rollin Abram)

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 193-194

Abram William FOOTE, farmer and telephone manager, Cornwall, was born 24 
October 1862 in Cornwall [Addison County, Vermont], son of Rollin A. and 
Julia A. (SAMPSON) FOOTE. Educated at Middlebury graded school [Addison 
County]. In 1899 with local partners, Mr. FOOTE organized the Cornwall 
Telephone Company. In 1901 built the Chittenden County telephone line to 
Burlington, and later sold this to the New England Telephone Company. In May 
1903 organized the Rutland County Telephone and Telegraph Company, and has 
been president and general manager of it to date. Mr. FOOTE compiled a 
history and genealogy of the FOOTE family and published it in a 600-page 
volume in 1907,* organized the FOOTE Family Association the same year, and 
has since been its secretary and treasurer. Republican; has held nearly 
every office in the town; represented Cornwall in the Legislature, 1900; was 
elected assistant judge of Addison County court in 1902 and re-elected in 
1904. In religious belief is a Baptist. In 1883 he [Abram William FOOTE] 
married [Miss?] Kate Dodge NICHOLS of Bridport [Addison County, Vermont]; 
they have eight children: William Rollin; Eva Gertrude (Mrs. Leslie A. 
MOTT); Arabella Wilcox; Kathleen Maria (Middlebury College graduate, 1911); 
Charles Nichols; Jessie Emma; Ralph Abram; and Estelle Julia.

[* Foote Family, Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel FOOTE, of 
Wethersfield (Hartford County), Connecticut, and His Descendants; also a 
Partial Record of Descendants of Pasco FOOTE of Salem (Essex County), 
Massachusetts, Richard FOOTE of Stafford County, Virginia, and John FOOTE of 
New York City (New York County), by Abram William FOOTE, published in 
Rutland, Vermont, by Marble City Press, the Tuttle Company, 1907-1932, in two 
volumes. CS71.F688 1907-1932.

Biography of Rollin Abram FOOTE (father of Abram William)

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 141 
(portrait p 141)

Rollin Abram FOOTE, of Cornwall, was born 09 January 1832 in Cornwall 
[Addison County, Vermont], son of Col. Abram and Orpha (WILLISMSON) FOOTE. 
He obtained his education in the commons schools of his birthplace, settled 
upon the farm which has been in the possession of the FOOTE family from the 
first settlement of the town, and has continued there pursuing his vocation 
until the present time. The estate has been enlarged and improved since it 
came into his hands, and he does not complain of "hard times" in the present 
depression in agriculture. He is one of the substantial men of the county, 
where advice is often sought, and whose influence is wholly on the side of 
good order. In 1879 he formed a copartnership with his son, Abram W. FOOTE, 
for the sale of hay and agricultural implements, and has built up a 
prosperous trade in that line; and he has also made a specialty of breeding 
matched horses. Mr. FOOTE has held all the principal offices of the town of 
his nativity, among which may be named: lister eleven years, overseer of the 
poor seventeen years, and road commissioner. On 01 March 1854 he [Rollin 
Abram FOOTE] married Miss Julia Arabella SAMPSON, by whom he has had two 
children: Abram William, and Frank Sampson.

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