Emerson Frank Root M.D. (1858 - 1943)

Born 1 Nov 1858 in Hartford, Washington, Wisconsin, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Emma (Kind) Root — married 1882 in Crete, Saline, Nebraska, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1943 at age 84 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

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Biography

Emerson was born in 1858 to Alonzo Root and Emeretta Root in Hartford, Wisconsin. In about 1867, they moved to Kekoskee. In 1872, they moved to Crete, Nebraska.

He passed away in 1943.

A Biographical and genealogical history of southeastern Nebraska., v. 2, Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co.,1904, pages 961-963 [formatting has been added to enhance readability]

MRS. EMERETTA ROOT.

To Dr. and Mrs. Root were born eight children.

• Frank, whose birth occurred in Hartford, Wisconsin, was graduated in medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and afterward engaged in practice in Crete with his father. During the past thirteen years he has been a regular practitioner of medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he lives with his wife and three children, a daughter and two sons.

Biographical Record of Salt Lake City and Vicinity, by the National Historical Record Company, 1902, p. 550

DOCTOR E. F. ROOT. It is a well-known fact that Salt Lake City has made rapid strides during the past ten or twelve years. The growth of the city has been phenomenal; great commercial enterprises have sprung up, vast improvements have been in progress, and splendid residences and business blocks have been erected which have added largely to the beauty and stability of the city. During this period the different professions and callings have been raised to a higher standard, and perhaps no branch of the professions has grown so rapidly as has the medical profession. Among the men who have assisted materially in bringing to a high standard that profession in Utah, Doctor E. F. Root, the subject of this sketch, deserves special mention.

Doctor Root comes of old Puritan stock, the history of the family in America dating back to two brothers who came from England in 1620, supposedly in the Mayflower. They were among the early settlers of the Connecticut colony, and it is not known which of the brothers this family sprang from, but there are many of that name scattered over the United States, who are descendants of those two brothers. Our subject was born at Hartford, Washington county, Wisconsin, November 1, 1858, and is the son of Doctor Alonzo D. Root, who was born on April 3, 1836, on a farm near Streetsborough, Portage county, Ohio. He emigrated to Wisconsin at the age of twenty-one, and subsequently graduated from the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, with the degree of M.D. in 1860. He then took up the practice of his profession in Washington county, Wisconsin, where he remained for twelve years. In 1872 he located in Crete, Nebraska, and is still practicing in that place. He is a member of the Nebraska State and American Medical Associations, and has devoted his life to the study and practice of medicine. His father was De Calevos Root, who came to Ohio from Connecticut and settled on the Western Reserve when the country was covered with timber. He cleared a farm and became the forerunner of civilization in this part of the United States. At the age forty-two he met with an accident which caused his death. Our subject's paternal grandmother, Susan Streeter, was born in Connecticut, and as a child settled with her family on the Western Reserve of Ohio, and is now living in Crete, Nebraska, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years, and is a wonderfully well preserved woman.

The Doctor's mother was Emeretta Root, the daughter of Edwin and Sarah Ann (Tousley) Root. Her family were early settlers of Connecticut These two families trace their ancestors back to the original emigrants, but the connecting link has been lost, and so far as known they are of no kin. Mrs. Root is still living, and is the mother of eight children—

Doctor E. F., our subject, who is the oldest;

Susan, wife of Captain T. B. Rhodes, of Washington, D. C.;

Doctor Wallace W., V. V. S., U.S.A., now serving on the Island of Luzon;

Clara T.,

Addie, the wife of Leon Farr, Professor of Dead Languages in one of the leading colleges at Elizabeth, New Jersey;

Gad B., a commission merchant at Weatherford, Oklahoma, and

two children who died in infancy.

Our subject lived in Wisconsin up to the age of fourteen, at which time he moved to Crete, Nebraska, with his parents, and received his education at Doan College, and in the medical department at the Western Reserve University, graduating in 1880. He then entered into practice with his father at Crete, remaining there for five years, and in 1885 moved to Exeter, in that State, and practiced there for six years. In November 1890, he came to Salt Lake City, where he has since followed his profession, devoting most of his time to surgery. For the past seven years he has been a member of the staff of surgeons at the Holy Cross Hospital He is ex-president of the Salt Lake Medical Society and a member of the Utah State Medical Society and American Medical Association; also medical examiner for several well known life insurance companies.

Doctor Root was married at Crete Nebraska in 1882, to Miss Emma Kind, daughter of John and Mary Kind, of that place and by her had two children—Clara Louise and Frank. She died in the fall of 1891, and he then married Miss Helen Randall, of Pueblo, Colorado, by whom he has one son—Emmerson Randall.

Doctor Root has made many friends during his residence here, and the success to which he has attained in his profession has been the result of close study and untiring effort to keep abreast of the times in that science. He is today in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice.

1860 Federal Census in Rubicon, Wisconsin:

• Alonso D Root 24 Farm Laborer born Ohio
• wife Emirett 17 born Ohio
• Frank 1 born Wisconsin
• they are living next door to Alonzo's brother Gad Root's family

1870 Federal Census in Williamstown, Wisconsin:

• A D Root 34 Physician born Ohio
• Emeretta 27 Keeping House born Ohio
• Frank 11 born Wisconsin
• Susan 9 born Wisconsin
• Wallace 7 born Wisconsin

1880 Federal Census in Crete, Nebraska:

• A D Root 44 Physician born Ohio
• wife Emaratta 37 Keeping House born Ohio
• son E Frank 11 Physician born Wisconsin
• daughter Susan E 19 Keeping House born Wisconsin
• son Wallace W 17 Studying Law born Wisconsin
• daughter Clora T 7 born Wisconsin
• daughter Addie 4 born Nebraska
• son Gad 0 born Nebraska
• servant Bell Oler 18 born Nebraska

Sources

• 1860 Federal Census
• 1870 Federal Census
• 1880 Federal Census
• Findagrave profile