The Rev. Dr. Foote was a Civil War veteran. From NYS Adj.-Gen. report on the 61st NYSV: "Foote, Lewis Ray - Age, 18 years. Enlisted, at Hamilton. [Madison Co., NY,] to serve three years, and mustered in as corporal, Co. C, September 16, 1861; wounded in action, June 1, 1862, at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va.; discharged for disability, September 18, 1862, at Providence, R. I.. After the war, he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and in 1873, became Pastor of the Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY. He was a prominent minister in Brooklyn and was Pastor of the Throop Avenue Church for 32 years. A bronze tablet dedicated to his memory is currently hanging in the Throop Memorial Presbyterian Church of Rosedale, Queens, NY. The Rev. Foote married Harriet Amanda Crandell Wilson on June 12, 1873. The Throop Avenue church building is currently the Newman Memorial Methodist Church.
The Rev. Dr. Foote was a Civil War veteran. From NYS Adj.-Gen. report on the 61st NYSV: "Foote, Lewis Ray - Age, 18 years. Enlisted, at Hamilton. [Madison Co., NY,] to serve three years, and mustered in as corporal, Co. C, September 16, 1861; wounded in action, June 1, 1862, at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va.; discharged for disability, September 18, 1862, at Providence, R. I.. After the war, he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and in 1873, became Pastor of the Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY. He was a prominent minister in Brooklyn and was Pastor of the Throop Avenue Church for 32 years. A bronze tablet dedicated to his memory is currently hanging in the Throop Memorial Presbyterian Church of Rosedale, Queens, NY. The Rev. Foote married Harriet Amanda Crandell Wilson on June 12, 1873. The Throop Avenue church building is currently the Newman Memorial Methodist Church.
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