He was the grandfather of James Edmundson Ingraham one of Henry M. Flagler's top men.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York. He later taught in Virginia and Alabama.
During the 1870's poor health led Root, now an ordained Episcopal minister, and his second wife, Laura, to Florida. He took the position of Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Augustine for ten years serving three more as Rector Emeritus. St. Louis, Missouri newspaper
August 5, 1887
Madison, Wis., August 4.--News has been received here of the death at Jacksonville, Fla., of Eleazer ROOT. Death was the result of a fall sustained recently. The deceased was virtually the founder of Carroll College, and its first President. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin, staying four years; a member of the first Board of Regents of the Wisconsin State University, and as a member purchased in his own name the grounds now used by the University, intending, if the Board of Regents would not buy them for a site for the University, to keep them for private purposes. For many years he has been rector of Trinity Episcopal Church at Jacksonville. He was 85 years old.
Father born in Conn. and mother in NY
He studied law and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York. He later taught in Virginia and Alabama.
During the 1870's poor health led Root, now an ordained Episcopal minister, and his second wife, Laura, to Florida. He took the position of Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Augustine for ten years serving three more as Rector Emeritus. St. Louis, Missouri newspaper
August 5, 1887
Madison, Wis., August 4.--News has been received here of the death at Jacksonville, Fla., of Eleazer ROOT. Death was the result of a fall sustained recently. The deceased was virtually the founder of Carroll College, and its first President. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin, staying four years; a member of the first Board of Regents of the Wisconsin State University, and as a member purchased in his own name the grounds now used by the University, intending, if the Board of Regents would not buy them for a site for the University, to keep them for private purposes. For many years he has been rector of Trinity Episcopal Church at Jacksonville. He was 85 years old.
Father born in Conn. and mother in NY
He was the grandfather of James Edmundson Ingraham one of Henry M. Flagler's top men.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York. He later taught in Virginia and Alabama.
During the 1870's poor health led Root, now an ordained Episcopal minister, and his second wife, Laura, to Florida. He took the position of Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Augustine for ten years serving three more as Rector Emeritus. St. Louis, Missouri newspaper
August 5, 1887
Madison, Wis., August 4.--News has been received here of the death at Jacksonville, Fla., of Eleazer ROOT. Death was the result of a fall sustained recently. The deceased was virtually the founder of Carroll College, and its first President. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin, staying four years; a member of the first Board of Regents of the Wisconsin State University, and as a member purchased in his own name the grounds now used by the University, intending, if the Board of Regents would not buy them for a site for the University, to keep them for private purposes. For many years he has been rector of Trinity Episcopal Church at Jacksonville. He was 85 years old.
Father born in Conn. and mother in NY
He studied law and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York. He later taught in Virginia and Alabama.
During the 1870's poor health led Root, now an ordained Episcopal minister, and his second wife, Laura, to Florida. He took the position of Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Augustine for ten years serving three more as Rector Emeritus. St. Louis, Missouri newspaper
August 5, 1887
Madison, Wis., August 4.--News has been received here of the death at Jacksonville, Fla., of Eleazer ROOT. Death was the result of a fall sustained recently. The deceased was virtually the founder of Carroll College, and its first President. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin, staying four years; a member of the first Board of Regents of the Wisconsin State University, and as a member purchased in his own name the grounds now used by the University, intending, if the Board of Regents would not buy them for a site for the University, to keep them for private purposes. For many years he has been rector of Trinity Episcopal Church at Jacksonville. He was 85 years old.
Father born in Conn. and mother in NY
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1802 - 1887
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