Inventory of the James Henry Foote Papers, 1849-1866
J.H. Foote, Iredell County, received his A.B. from Wake Forest College in 1852, and his A.M. in 1856. He was a teacher in Farmington and Taylorsville, 1852-1859, and professor at Wake Forest College, 1859-1861. During the Civil War he was Capt. of County I, 1st North Carolina Infantry Regt. and was in charge of the "Roll of Honor" office, Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a teacher in Warrenton, Raleigh, and Wilkes counties. He served as Assistant U.S. Marshal, and as member of the General Assembly of North Carolina.
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Summary Information
- Repository
- Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
- Title
- James Henry Foote Papers
- Creator
- Foote, James Henry, 1825-1909
- Date
- 1849-1866 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.25 linear feet / 1 half letter box
- ID
- MS296
Biographical and Historical Note
J.H. Foote, Iredell County, received his A.B. from Wake Forest College in 1852, and his A.M. in 1856. He was a teacher in Farmington and Taylorsville, 1852-1859, and professor at Wake Forest College, 1859-1861. During the Civil War he was Captain of County I, 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment and was in charge of the "Roll of Honor" office, Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a teacher in Warrenton, Raleigh, and Wilkes counties. He served as Assistant U.S. Marshal, and as member of the General Assembly of North Carolina.
Collection Overview
His papers consists of biographical data; a carte-de-vista of Foote, circa 1865-1866; a daguerreotype of the ten members of the Wake Forest College Class of 1852 [Foote, James Bond, Benjamin Franklin Biddle, Bedford Brown, Joseph John Freeman, Gerard James Hinton, Benjamin James Lea, John Mitchell, William Gaston Simmons, and Samuel Owen Tatum], and a positive print.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Finding aid prepared by Processed by: John Woodard; machine-readable finding aid created by Apex, 2005
- Access Restrictions
- Collection is open.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question or their descendants, unless otherwise designated. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law.
- Preferred Citation
- MS 296, James Henry Foote Papers, 1849-1866, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.