1891 Biography - J. Foote

J. W. Foote was born in St. Mary parish, Louisiana, in 1849. He is the son of J. N. and Caroline (Dunesnil) Foote.

J. M. Foote was a native of Tennessee, who removed to Louisiana early in life, where he married and engaged in sugar planting. He died in 1863, and his widow still survives him.

The subject is one of a family born to the above union, six of whom are living; A. J., Mrs. Catherine Queen, J. W., Jr., Mrs. Mary Moffitt, N. J. and F. T.

J. W. Foote received a limited education, and when young learned the carpenter trade, which he followed until 1881, since which time he has been chiefly engaged in planting. He took charge of the Oak Lawn plantation in 1887, and under his management it has been extremely successful.

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Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, page 367.

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