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David Root

ROOT, David, clergyman, born in Pomfret, Vermont, in 1790; died in Chicago, Illinois, 30 August, 1873. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1816, entered the ministry, and was pastor successively of Presbyterian churches in Georgia and Cincinnati, Ohio, and of the Congregational church in Dover, New Hampshire In the latter city he identified himself with the Antislavery party, which he served with such devotion that he suffered persecution both there and in Waterbury, Connecticut, whence he subsequently removed. He then held pastorates in Guilford and New Ha-yen, Connecticut, 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.

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