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I am hoping to check out whether or not there is a connection between Hiram Foote Mather (d. Chicago, 1868) and Roxanna Foote Beecher, first wife of Lyman Beecher. H. F. Mather was president of the Lake Forest Assoication (fl. 1856-62) which founded Lake Forest, IL and the institution which today is Lake Forest College. A leader in the founding of Lake Forest was the Rev. Robert W. Patterson of Chicago's Second Presbyterian Church, who attended Lane Seminary (Cincinnati) where Lyman Beecher was president in the 1830s; Patterson is rported to be Lyman Beecher's favoite student. Also, Roxanna Beecher, daughter of William Beecher and grandaughter of Lyman and (I think) Roxanna Beecher, was the town of Lake Forest's first public school teacher, 1860-63, and probably taught African-Americans here. Her father, according to Rugoff's book on the Beechers, was the most radically anti-slavery of the siblings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Like Lyman Beecher, Hiram Foote Mather also attended Yale under ther Rev. Timothy Dwight, something Patterson mentioned in his early-July, 1868 funderal sermon recollecting Hiram Mather, as reprinted in the Chicago Tribune. My hunch is that Hiram Foote Mather and Roxanna Foote Beecher were connected.
Lake Forest College is writing its institutional history and I would like to sort this out over the next couple of months so that any Foote connection can be referenced in this history.
Finally, a long shot: I'm wondering ir there is any Foote tie to Frederic Law Olmsted, the landscape gardener. There are suggestions, undocumented, of an Olmsted role in the laying out of Lake Forest (centered on the College campus) in 1856-57 by Almerin Hotchkiss of St. Louis. Also, could there be any Hotchkiss/Foote connection?
Any little bit of help would be appreciated. An historian friend of mine years ago, Lester Cappon, referred to genealogy as the "handmaiden of history." Without sounding too sexist, though, I would like to add that genealogy already has contributed much to the work on our College history.
Gratefully,
Arthur Miller
Archivist and Librarian
for Special Collections
Donnelley Library
Lake Forest College
555 NOrth Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045
847-735-5064
amiller@lfc.edu
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