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JUSTIN ROOT, farmer, P. 0. Cambridgeboro, was born in what is now Cambridge Township. this county, December
29, 1833; son of Sylvester and Mercy (Thomas) Root, who settled in Cambridge Township in 1820. The father of our
subject came from Middlefield, Mass., and was a son of Daniel and Electa (Wardwell) Root. Daniel was a son of Thomas
Root, whose father, Timothy Root, was a native of Westfield, Mass. The Roots are descendants of three brothers
who came from England and settled in Salem, Mass., in 1635-36. Sylvester Root had eight children: Martha L., Sally
A., Harmony, Sylvester B., Justin, Morton, Timothy T. and Lucy A. Justin Root, our subject, was married January
10, 1861, to Nancy, daughter of Levi G. and Elizabeth (Gross) Birchard, by whom he has two children: Lizzie A.,
born April 14, 1865 (the day President Lincoln was assassinated), and Andrew A., born August 28, 1866, died of
typhoid fever September 27, 1884, aged eighteen years, one month. He was a grand and noble young man, and being
the only son, his loss is a sad affliction to his parents and sister. Mr. Root lives on a part of the farm settled
by James Birchard in 1813. He is a member of the Knights of Honor; is a Republican in politics. He and his family
are members of the Presbyterian Church.
From:
History of Crewford County, Pennsylvania
Illustrated
Warner, Beers & Co.,
Chicago; 1895
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