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Roosevelt, James John

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1795, in New York city. In 1835 and 1840 he was a member of the New York state legislature; and in 1842 and 1843 was a representative in congress from New York city. He was judge of the supreme court of the state in 1851; was an attorney of the United States; and held the office of judge eight years. He died April 5, 1875, in New York.

Root, David

clergyman, philanthropist, was born in 1790 in Pomfret, Vt. He held pastorates in Guilford and New Haven, Conn., till 1852, when he retired.

He gave $10,000 to endow a professorship in Beloit college, Wisconsin; $20,000 to Yale Theological seminary, and $5,000 to the American Missionary society. He died Aug. 30, 1873, in Chicago, Ill.

Root, Elihu

lawyer, was born Feb. 15, 1845, in Clinton, N. Y. He settled in New York city, where he has attained high reputation; and in 1883-85 was United States district attorney for the southern district of New York.

Root, Frederic Woodman

musician, composer, was born June 13, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He has been very successful as a teacher of vocal music, and has published Root's School of Singing. From 1871 till 1875 he edited the Song Messenger.

Root, Jesse

soldier, clergyman, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 1736, in Coventry, Conn. He settled in Hartford, Conn.; took part in the revolutionary war; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1783. He was appointed judge of the superior court in 1779; and chief justice of Connecticut from 1796 until his resignation in 1807. He died March 29, 1822, in Coventry, Conn.

Root, Joseph M

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1817, in Cayuga, N. Y. He was appointed prosecuting attorney in Ohio; and in 1840 was elected to the state senate. He served as a representative in congress from 1845 to 1851.

Roots, Logan H

soldier, educator, congressman, was born March 26, 1841, in Perry county, Ill. After the war he settled in Arkansas as a planter. He was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress, and re-elected to the forty-first congress as a republican.

Ropes, John Codman

lawyer, author, was born April 28, 1836, in Russia.

He is a lawyer of Boston well known as a military historian; and the author of The Army under Pope; The Campaign of Waterloo; Atlas of Waterloo; The First Napoleon; and The Story of the Civil War.

Rorer, Sarah Tyson

lecturer, author. She is a popular writer and lecturer on cooking.

Rose, Aquila

printer, poet, was born in 1695 in England. He was a printer and verse writer of Philadelphia whose Poems on Several Occasions were collected after his death. He died Aug. 22, 1723, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Rose, James A

lawyer, secretary of state, was born Oct. 13, 1850, in Pope county, Ill. He was in 1896 elected secretary of state of Illinois.

Rose, Robert L

farmer, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1804, in Geneva, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1847 to 1851.