Background
Foote, Merrill Newton was born on October 21, 1888 in Carolyn, New New York Son of Isaac N. and Augusta A. (Merrill) Foote.
Foote, Merrill Newton was born on October 21, 1888 in Carolyn, New New York Son of Isaac N. and Augusta A. (Merrill) Foote.
Graduate Cornell Univercity. Doctor of Medicine Columbia.
Director surgery Carson C. Peck Memorial Hospital, Brooklyn. Former member of faculty department surgery Long Island College Medicine. Director emeritus department surgery Saint John's Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn.
Attending surgeon Brooklyn Cancer Institute, Kingston Avenue Hospital, John East. Jennings Hospital.
Consultant surgeon Lutheran Medical Center, Lutheran Hospital, Cumberland Hospital, Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, Victory Memorial Hospital, Beth-El Hospital, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Prospect Heights Hospital, Caledonian Hospital, Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for Aged, Good Samaritan Hospital (West lslip, Long Island), Jamaica Hospital, Mather Memorial Hospital, Southside Hospital, Brooklyn Infants and Nursery. Trustee Packer Collegiate Institute.
Served with American Ambulance Company, United States Army, World War I. American College of Surgeons fellow (governor 1941-1957, regent from 1957. Member of the American Goiter Association (past president), New York Gastroenterological Society (past president), Royal Society Medicine London, Brooklyn (past president), Queensborough (honorary) surgical societies, International Society Surgery (titular.
Clubs: Rembrandt (past president).
Married Ruth H. Sackman, June 1, 1922. Children: Jane M. (Mistress West. Nicholas Kruse), Carol P. (Mistress Robert H. T. Davidson), Shirley R. (Mistress Jerald Melum).