Biographical Sketch of James K. Foote, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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James K. Foote, postmaster at De Bruin, MO., was born in Orange 
County, Ind., in 1848, the son of William and Adaline (Pinnick)
Foote, who were born in Indiana in 1823 and 1826, and died in
Indiana and Missouri in 1877 and 1888, respectively.  They were
the parents of fourteen children, nine of whom are living: 
James K., Mary E. (wife of George T. McNeff), Nancy A. (wife of
James M. Lane), Cammaliza, Malinda F. (wife of G.W. Mickler),
William H., Minnie A. (wife of Alfred H. Williams), Evaline M.
and Asher L.  William Foote's father was a Virginian, and after
residing in Tennessee and Kentucky for some time moved to Indiana
where he died in 1862, at the age of seventy-five years.  James K.
Foote spent his boyhood days on a farm, and resided with his parents
until twenty-one years of age.  His marriage with Miss Laura J.
Briner was celebrated in 1875.  She was born in Orange County, Ind.,
in 1857, and is the mother of the following children:  Nora A., 
Mabel M., Edson E. and Artiemecie.  In 1872 Mr. Foote flat-boated
to New Orleans, LA., and in 1873 took up his abode in Texas, and
at the end of two years and seven months returned to Indiana, and
in the fall of 1875 went to Cherokee County, KS.  Here he resided
until 1878, when he again returned to Indiana, and in the fall of 
1879 came to Pulaski County, MO., and in 1881 purchased forty acres
of land about six miles west of the county seat, it being a portion
of the old Cyrus Colley farm.  In 1883 he was appointed postmaster
of De Bruin.  In his political views he is a stanch Republican.  In
religious belief he and wife are Seventh-Day Adventists.

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