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Subject: Foote.Virginius.1833.Breckinridge-Meade.BIOS


Virginius Foote April 21, 1833 - unknown
Breckinridge-Meade County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd Edition

DR. VIRGINIUS FOOTE was born April 21, 1833, in Breckinridge County, on Sinking 
Creek, where he resided until 1878, when he located at his present home, in 
Meade County. His father, Edwin Foote, as born in Fauquier County, Va., about 
1808. When a young man he moved to Kentucky, locating on the head waters of 
Sinking Creek. He was a farmer, and also for a short time engaged in 
merchandising. He was a son of William Foote, also a native of Virginia, a 
farmer, and of English descent. Edwin Foots was married, about 1830, to Miss 
Ellen, daughter of Gerard and Elizabeth (Lee) Alexander, of Breckinridge 
County. From this union sprang Ludwell A., Virginius, Nancy T. (Anderson) and 
Gerard, who was killed in the Confederate States Army at Franklin, Tenn., 
November 30, 1864. September 12, 1861, Dr. Foote married Miss Anna M., daughter 
of John and Maria A. (Harris) Woolfolk. He began the study of medicine under 
the proceptorship of Drs. Tyler and Luckett, of Owensboro; after about eighteen 
months he attended lectures at the medical department of the University of 
Louisville, from which he graduated in the class of 1856-57, and began the 
practice of his profession, which he has since continued at various places with 
success. He is not connected with any church or secret organization, and in 
politics is a Democrat.


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