Dr. Anson Root, son of Ephraim Root, a Revolutionary War veteran and Sally Skinner. He married March 17, 1811, Lucinda Wilson, daughter of Ebenezer and Lydia (Rowley) Wilson of Middlebury, NY, who was bprn June 12, 1793. They removed to Elgin, IL. She died in Elgin, March 5, 1845. He married (2) June 14, 1845 in McHenry County, IL, Polly Baird, widow of his brother-in-law, Amos Wilson. He had 8 children, all with first wife, Lucinda: Eliza, Mary Ann, Julia Ann, Orpha, Harriet, Anson, Martha and William. Source: Root genealogical records. 1600-1870. Comprising the general history of the Root and Roots families in America by Root, James Pierce, 1829-1887, p. 162.
Anderson Root (Anson Root), age 73, Physician, was living in Elgin with wife Mary, age 63 and Amelia Thomas (Amelia Root), age 18. 1860 US Census
Dr. Anson Root was an abolitionist and active in the Underground Railroad movement. "Dr. Anson Root and the Gifford family are people who link Elgin with the Underground Railroad. Dr. Root is listed in Wilbur Siebert's Underground Railroad book as an operator in Kane County. He was chairman of the Kane County Anti-Slavery Society in 1843. He is associated with the Caroline Quarels case." Source: The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilley Turner, p. 74.
Caroline Quarlls, a 16-year-old fugitive slave from St. Louis, Missouri, was the first passenger on Wisconsin's "Underground Railroad" in 1842...When night came on, we started from Dr. Dyer's, Caroline on the buffalo [robe] in the bottom of the buggy.....In the morning Elder Fitch went back home, and Russel went with us, through Dundee, to Dr. Roots. He was a double abolitionist, like Dr. Dyer." Source: Caroline Quarlls - First Underground Railroad "Passenger" in Wisconsin. https://burlingtonhistory.org/caroline-quarlls-first-underground-railroad-passenger-wisconsin.
Dr. Anson Root was a native of Genesee county, New York, and was surgeon of a regiment in the war of 1812, receiving for his services his regular pay as a surgeon and later a land warrant, which he located near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He also served as a surgeon in the Canadian rebellion. In 1838 he came west, and after spending a year on the Fox river he took up his residence in Elgin, where he made his home until called to his final rest in 1866, at the age of eighty years. For fifty years he successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, was one of the leading pioneer physicians of this section of the state, but spent his last years in retirement, enjoying a well earned rest. He served as alderman of Elgin for a time and held other public positions of honor and trust. His wife, who was for many years a consistent member of the Baptist church, died in 1847, at the age of fifty-four years. In their family were eight children, two sons and six daughters, but only three are now living: Orpha, widow of Samuel Burdick, and a resident of Elgin; Martha, wife of C. H. Loomis, of Los Angeles, California; and Anson W. Source: Biographical Record of Kane County
Anson Root purchased land in Aurora from Samuel McCarty, Abel and Lucinda Downer and John Wade, between the years of 1842 and 1844. Source: Kane County Recorder's Office
Dr. Anson Root, an ardent abolitionist, father-in-law of Charles Bates, donated three-fourths of an acre toward a cemetery on Root Street in Aurora, IL and stipulated in his will that if the land was to be used for anything other than a cemetery the land would go back to his heirs. Source Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 by Robb Winder, Local Historian, Aurora Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9NLdhepFRw
Mr. Winder also stated in Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 that few records exist for the burials in the East Aurora Cemetery: "How many bodies still lie under this desolate place, no one knows". I've been able, with the help of Julie Padilla and Greg Stull, to find many burial records online at FamilySearch.org. Greg and I have created over 600 memorials for them on FindaGrave.
Anderson Root (Anson Root), age 73, Physician, was living in Elgin with wife Mary, age 63 and Amelia Thomas (Amelia Root), age 18. 1860 US Census
Dr. Anson Root was an abolitionist and active in the Underground Railroad movement. "Dr. Anson Root and the Gifford family are people who link Elgin with the Underground Railroad. Dr. Root is listed in Wilbur Siebert's Underground Railroad book as an operator in Kane County. He was chairman of the Kane County Anti-Slavery Society in 1843. He is associated with the Caroline Quarels case." Source: The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilley Turner, p. 74.
Caroline Quarlls, a 16-year-old fugitive slave from St. Louis, Missouri, was the first passenger on Wisconsin's "Underground Railroad" in 1842...When night came on, we started from Dr. Dyer's, Caroline on the buffalo [robe] in the bottom of the buggy.....In the morning Elder Fitch went back home, and Russel went with us, through Dundee, to Dr. Roots. He was a double abolitionist, like Dr. Dyer." Source: Caroline Quarlls - First Underground Railroad "Passenger" in Wisconsin. https://burlingtonhistory.org/caroline-quarlls-first-underground-railroad-passenger-wisconsin.
Dr. Anson Root was a native of Genesee county, New York, and was surgeon of a regiment in the war of 1812, receiving for his services his regular pay as a surgeon and later a land warrant, which he located near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He also served as a surgeon in the Canadian rebellion. In 1838 he came west, and after spending a year on the Fox river he took up his residence in Elgin, where he made his home until called to his final rest in 1866, at the age of eighty years. For fifty years he successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, was one of the leading pioneer physicians of this section of the state, but spent his last years in retirement, enjoying a well earned rest. He served as alderman of Elgin for a time and held other public positions of honor and trust. His wife, who was for many years a consistent member of the Baptist church, died in 1847, at the age of fifty-four years. In their family were eight children, two sons and six daughters, but only three are now living: Orpha, widow of Samuel Burdick, and a resident of Elgin; Martha, wife of C. H. Loomis, of Los Angeles, California; and Anson W. Source: Biographical Record of Kane County
Anson Root purchased land in Aurora from Samuel McCarty, Abel and Lucinda Downer and John Wade, between the years of 1842 and 1844. Source: Kane County Recorder's Office
Dr. Anson Root, an ardent abolitionist, father-in-law of Charles Bates, donated three-fourths of an acre toward a cemetery on Root Street in Aurora, IL and stipulated in his will that if the land was to be used for anything other than a cemetery the land would go back to his heirs. Source Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 by Robb Winder, Local Historian, Aurora Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9NLdhepFRw
Mr. Winder also stated in Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 that few records exist for the burials in the East Aurora Cemetery: "How many bodies still lie under this desolate place, no one knows". I've been able, with the help of Julie Padilla and Greg Stull, to find many burial records online at FamilySearch.org. Greg and I have created over 600 memorials for them on FindaGrave.
Dr. Anson Root, son of Ephraim Root, a Revolutionary War veteran and Sally Skinner. He married March 17, 1811, Lucinda Wilson, daughter of Ebenezer and Lydia (Rowley) Wilson of Middlebury, NY, who was bprn June 12, 1793. They removed to Elgin, IL. She died in Elgin, March 5, 1845. He married (2) June 14, 1845 in McHenry County, IL, Polly Baird, widow of his brother-in-law, Amos Wilson. He had 8 children, all with first wife, Lucinda: Eliza, Mary Ann, Julia Ann, Orpha, Harriet, Anson, Martha and William. Source: Root genealogical records. 1600-1870. Comprising the general history of the Root and Roots families in America by Root, James Pierce, 1829-1887, p. 162.
Anderson Root (Anson Root), age 73, Physician, was living in Elgin with wife Mary, age 63 and Amelia Thomas (Amelia Root), age 18. 1860 US Census
Dr. Anson Root was an abolitionist and active in the Underground Railroad movement. "Dr. Anson Root and the Gifford family are people who link Elgin with the Underground Railroad. Dr. Root is listed in Wilbur Siebert's Underground Railroad book as an operator in Kane County. He was chairman of the Kane County Anti-Slavery Society in 1843. He is associated with the Caroline Quarels case." Source: The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilley Turner, p. 74.
Caroline Quarlls, a 16-year-old fugitive slave from St. Louis, Missouri, was the first passenger on Wisconsin's "Underground Railroad" in 1842...When night came on, we started from Dr. Dyer's, Caroline on the buffalo [robe] in the bottom of the buggy.....In the morning Elder Fitch went back home, and Russel went with us, through Dundee, to Dr. Roots. He was a double abolitionist, like Dr. Dyer." Source: Caroline Quarlls - First Underground Railroad "Passenger" in Wisconsin. https://burlingtonhistory.org/caroline-quarlls-first-underground-railroad-passenger-wisconsin.
Dr. Anson Root was a native of Genesee county, New York, and was surgeon of a regiment in the war of 1812, receiving for his services his regular pay as a surgeon and later a land warrant, which he located near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He also served as a surgeon in the Canadian rebellion. In 1838 he came west, and after spending a year on the Fox river he took up his residence in Elgin, where he made his home until called to his final rest in 1866, at the age of eighty years. For fifty years he successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, was one of the leading pioneer physicians of this section of the state, but spent his last years in retirement, enjoying a well earned rest. He served as alderman of Elgin for a time and held other public positions of honor and trust. His wife, who was for many years a consistent member of the Baptist church, died in 1847, at the age of fifty-four years. In their family were eight children, two sons and six daughters, but only three are now living: Orpha, widow of Samuel Burdick, and a resident of Elgin; Martha, wife of C. H. Loomis, of Los Angeles, California; and Anson W. Source: Biographical Record of Kane County
Anson Root purchased land in Aurora from Samuel McCarty, Abel and Lucinda Downer and John Wade, between the years of 1842 and 1844. Source: Kane County Recorder's Office
Dr. Anson Root, an ardent abolitionist, father-in-law of Charles Bates, donated three-fourths of an acre toward a cemetery on Root Street in Aurora, IL and stipulated in his will that if the land was to be used for anything other than a cemetery the land would go back to his heirs. Source Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 by Robb Winder, Local Historian, Aurora Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9NLdhepFRw
Mr. Winder also stated in Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 that few records exist for the burials in the East Aurora Cemetery: "How many bodies still lie under this desolate place, no one knows". I've been able, with the help of Julie Padilla and Greg Stull, to find many burial records online at FamilySearch.org. Greg and I have created over 600 memorials for them on FindaGrave.
Anderson Root (Anson Root), age 73, Physician, was living in Elgin with wife Mary, age 63 and Amelia Thomas (Amelia Root), age 18. 1860 US Census
Dr. Anson Root was an abolitionist and active in the Underground Railroad movement. "Dr. Anson Root and the Gifford family are people who link Elgin with the Underground Railroad. Dr. Root is listed in Wilbur Siebert's Underground Railroad book as an operator in Kane County. He was chairman of the Kane County Anti-Slavery Society in 1843. He is associated with the Caroline Quarels case." Source: The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilley Turner, p. 74.
Caroline Quarlls, a 16-year-old fugitive slave from St. Louis, Missouri, was the first passenger on Wisconsin's "Underground Railroad" in 1842...When night came on, we started from Dr. Dyer's, Caroline on the buffalo [robe] in the bottom of the buggy.....In the morning Elder Fitch went back home, and Russel went with us, through Dundee, to Dr. Roots. He was a double abolitionist, like Dr. Dyer." Source: Caroline Quarlls - First Underground Railroad "Passenger" in Wisconsin. https://burlingtonhistory.org/caroline-quarlls-first-underground-railroad-passenger-wisconsin.
Dr. Anson Root was a native of Genesee county, New York, and was surgeon of a regiment in the war of 1812, receiving for his services his regular pay as a surgeon and later a land warrant, which he located near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He also served as a surgeon in the Canadian rebellion. In 1838 he came west, and after spending a year on the Fox river he took up his residence in Elgin, where he made his home until called to his final rest in 1866, at the age of eighty years. For fifty years he successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, was one of the leading pioneer physicians of this section of the state, but spent his last years in retirement, enjoying a well earned rest. He served as alderman of Elgin for a time and held other public positions of honor and trust. His wife, who was for many years a consistent member of the Baptist church, died in 1847, at the age of fifty-four years. In their family were eight children, two sons and six daughters, but only three are now living: Orpha, widow of Samuel Burdick, and a resident of Elgin; Martha, wife of C. H. Loomis, of Los Angeles, California; and Anson W. Source: Biographical Record of Kane County
Anson Root purchased land in Aurora from Samuel McCarty, Abel and Lucinda Downer and John Wade, between the years of 1842 and 1844. Source: Kane County Recorder's Office
Dr. Anson Root, an ardent abolitionist, father-in-law of Charles Bates, donated three-fourths of an acre toward a cemetery on Root Street in Aurora, IL and stipulated in his will that if the land was to be used for anything other than a cemetery the land would go back to his heirs. Source Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 by Robb Winder, Local Historian, Aurora Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9NLdhepFRw
Mr. Winder also stated in Aurora Cemeteries Part 1 that few records exist for the burials in the East Aurora Cemetery: "How many bodies still lie under this desolate place, no one knows". I've been able, with the help of Julie Padilla and Greg Stull, to find many burial records online at FamilySearch.org. Greg and I have created over 600 memorials for them on FindaGrave.
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