Philadelphia County PA Archives Biographies.....Rev. William Henry FOOTE, December 20, 1794 - November 22, 1869
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Author: Virgil A. Lewis

Rev. William Henry Foote, D. D., an eminent Presbyterian divine and author,
was long a resident of Romney. He was born at Colchester, Connecticut, December
20, 1794, and after attending Bacon Academy in his native town, entered Yale
College in 1814, where he graduated two years later. He came to Fredericksburg,
Virginia, and united with the church in 1817, after which he studied theology at
Princeton, and was licensed to preach by the Winchester Presbytery at
Gerrardstown, October 21, 1819, and entered upon his pastoral work at Woodstock.
In 1824, he became pastor of the Romney Church, then known as Mount Bethel
Church, at the same time serving the congregations at Springfield and
Patterson's Creek. In 1835, he was appointed agent for the Central Board of
Foreign Missions, and removed to Philadelphia, where he resided until 1845, when
he again assumed charge of the Romney Church, in which connection he continued
until his death, November 22, 1869, with the exception of the years of the Civil
War which he spent in East Virginia employed as a missionary among the wounded.
He was a voluminous writer, and in addition to his contributions to the
periodical literature of the day, he was the author of several published works,
among them being " Sketches of North Carolina," "The Huguenots, or Reformed
Dutch Church," and " Sketches of Virginia," the last published in Philadelphia,
in 1850.


Additional Comments:
From History of West Virginia in Two Parts by Virgil A. Lewis, Hampshire County
entry.


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