Foote
Foote names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Foote ANDREW HULL, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANDREW HULL, an American naval officer; born in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 12, 1806; entered the navy as a midshipman nan in 1822. In 1849-1852 he was engaged in the suppression of the slave trade on the coast of Africa. In command of the China station in 1856, when the Chinese and English were at war, he exerted himself to protect American property, and was fired upon by the Celestials. His demand for an apology was refused and he stormed and captured four Chinese forts, killing and wounding 400 of the garrisons of 5,000 men. In 1861 he commanded the expedition against Forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, and directed the attack on Island Number 10. In 1862, he was promoted rear-admiral, and in 1863 was ordered to take command of the South Atlantic Squadron, but died in ng to join his New York while preparing flag-ship, June 26, 1863.
Foote SAMUEL, an English actor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL, an English actor; born in Truro, England, Jan. 27, 1720. From Oxford he went to London to study law, but had to go on the stage for a living; tried tragic parts and failed; then began to give entertainments, impersonating real and imaginary people and acting little farces by himself. He wrote farces, 22 in number; the most notable being "The Minor" (1760), a skit at the Methodists; "The Liar"; "The Mayor of Garratt." He died in Dover, England, Oct. 21, 1777. a city of Victoria,
Foote MARY (HALLOCK)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY (HALLOCK), an American author; born in Milton, N. Y., Nov. 19, 1847; married a mining engi- She was the author of several neer. novels and collections of short stories illustrated by herself, on life in the Rocky Mountain regions: "The Led Horse Claim" (1883); "John Bodewin's Testimony" (1886); "Cœur d'Alene" (1894); "The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories" (1895); "The Little Fig Tree Stories" (1899); "The Prodigal" "The (1900); "A Touch of Sun" (1903); "T Royal Americans" (1910); "Picked Company" (1912); "Valley Road" (1915).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the three, Mary Hallock Foote has moved the most: still living when Collier's listed her novels in 1921, she died in 1938, and her reputation now rests less on "The Led Horse Claim" than on her letters and memoirs, published in 1972 as "A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West," and on Wallace Stegner's 1971 novel "Angle of Repose," which drew on them closely enough to provoke a long argument about borrowed material. Samuel Foote's farces are rarely staged today, but he returned to public notice through Ian Kelly's biography and the 2015 play "Mr Foote's Other Leg," both built around the amputation that led to his royal patent for the Haymarket. On Andrew Hull Foote, note that the Forts Henry and Donelson expedition Collier's dates to 1861 actually took place in February 1862; his name has since been carried by several US Navy destroyers.
Written for this edition, 2026.