William Henry Foote

William Henry Foote was born on December 20, 1794, in Colchester, Connecticut. His father was Stephen Foote and his mother, Hannah Waterman Foote. He graduated from Yale University in 1816. He then studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1818 to 1819, where he became an ordained Presbyterian minister. ==Career==

Foote served as a Presbyterian minister in Woodstock, Virginia, from 1822 to 1824. From 1838 to 1845, Foote served as an agent for the Central Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He visited many Presbyterian churches in Virginia and North Carolina during that time. He also served on the Board of Trustees of Union Presbyterian Seminary, then the Theology department at H–SC from 1838 to 1869. ==Personal life==

On February 21, 1822, Foote married Eliza Wilson Glass, the daughter of the Reverend Joseph Glass. They had two daughters: • Anne Waterman Foote, married to James Dillon Armstrong • Eliza Wilson Foote. After his first wife died in April 1835, he married Arabella Gilliam on October 31, 1838. They had a daughter: • Mary Arabella Foote. ==Death==

Foote died on November 22, 1869, in Romney, West Virginia. He was buried at the Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney. ==References==