When Adelbert Pierpont Foote was born on 25 August 1846, in East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Bela Harrison Foote, was 30 and his mother, Almira Pierpont, was 22. He married Estelle Florence Boardman on 18 June 1871. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years and Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States for about 40 years. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 7 December 1924, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 78, and was buried in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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