BIO: Joseph ROOT, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 41

JOSEPH ROOT, a native of New Hampshire, was born October 31, 1811, and is the 
son of Joseph and Lydia (Croak) Root.  He received a good academical education, 
and at the age of nineteen began teaching in Vermont, and was thus employed for 
five successive terms of five months each.  He was next employed by Alfred 
Blake, scale-maker, as a traveling salesman, and subsequently, in 1839, engaged 
in the manufacture of scales on his own account.  In 1841 he formed a 
partnership at York with Emerson J. Case, who died in 1881, but the high 
reputation achieved by the firm for the superiority of its scales has induced 
Mr. Root to retain the name of the old firm, Root & Case, under which he still 
conducts business.  In the spring of 1850 Mr. Root married Miss Marion, daughter 
of Joseph Parkhurst, of Vermont, and to his nuptials have been born two 
children:  Jabez H. and Helen M.  Mr. Root is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church and also of Mt. Zion Lodge, I. O. O. F.