"Winthrop will long loss of its exemplary citizen, Henry A. Root, of 106 Grovers Ave., who passed away at his home of heart troubles after some months of impaired health Wednesday morning May 16.

Mr. Root was a native of Ware, Mass, his birthday being September 3, 1850. His father being a mason, he learned the trade under him. He and his brother came to Boston and 1872 and were associated with then well-established builder, Joseph W. Coburn, and upon death in 1884 the brothers took the firm name of W. A. and H. A. Root, now identified for nearly 40 years with Boston’s great growth in the building industry.

Mr. Roots firm in the construction of Young’s Hotel. Boston, and the Worcester Courthouse, later in the ‘80s with the former Children’s Hospital then on Huntington Ave., Boston, which is later taken down’ and also in the town halls of Canton, Stoughton and Walpole, and the Brewster Memorial Hall and Academy building at Wolfeboro, N.H., and the 90’s came to Milton Academy dormitories and the Roxbury courthouse.

During the past 20 years this well-established firm built the dormitories at Ratcliffe College, Cambridge, The Germanic Museum at Harvard College, The Home for the Aged of Couples, the New England Hospital for Women and Children, The Forsyth Dental Infirmary in the Fenway, the new Studio Building, and the fourth dental infirmary in the Fenway, the entire Gillette plant, the new Studio Building and the Park Square Building, all in Boston. His lasting monument in Withrow is the Frost Public Library in Metcalf Square.

He was one of the directors in the New England Hospital and vice president of the Workingmen’s Co-operative Bank on Cornhill street and was for many years chairman of the loan committee and thus helped thousands or difficulties and start a new ways of progress.

Since his retirement from active business about three years ago, his nephew, Colonel W. H. Root, son of W. A. Root, who has also passed away, is the head of the W. A. and H. A, Root contractors, of 1 Beacon St., Boston.

Henry A. Root has lived in Winthrop over 30 years and served in various official capacities. He helped to found the Winthrop Trust Company and Winthrop Savings Bank. He was a leading member and held various hype offices in the unitary church. His life was governed by Justice honesty, and right-dealing, and he dared to express his honest convictions under any in all circumstances, when it meant standing for the right, thus moral courage was ingrained in his nature. Being trained by broad-minded parents, he believed in the equal rights of both sexes. Mr. Root was a member of the Masons and a charter member of Joseph Warren Commandery of Roxbury.

His closest surviving relatives were two sisters, the Misses Ellen F. and Mary S. Root.

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