Wallace Root
Wallace Root, farmer, P. O. Streetsborough, was born February 2, 1830 in Streetsboro, this county, son of Alonzo and Susan (Streator) Root, parents of four children: G. Wellington, Wallace, Augusta (wife of J. F, Wing) and Alonzo D. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Root, was a native of Vermont, and among the first settlers of Shalersville and later of Streetsboro, clearing and improving farms in both townships. He removed to Kentucky in 1850, and died there. His children were eight in number: Alonzo, Herod, Nelson, Obediah, Decalvous, Albert, Theresa and Worthington, who is the only one now surviving. Alonzo, the eldest, settled in Streetsboro, this county, about 1826, locating on the farm now owned by Henry Sawyer, which he cleared and improved, and in 1835 he settled on the farm now owned by our subject, which he also cleared, and where he lived until 1843, in which year he died aged forty-three. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Isaac H. Streator, settled here in 1826, being the third settler in Streetsboro, clearing and improving a farm. In 1849 he removed to Cleveland and died there. Wallace Root was reared in his native town and received a common school education. He was married November 13, 1851, to Lucy, daughter of Josiah and Eliza Combs, of Streetsboro, by whom he had four children, of whom but one is now living—Ernest C, married to Emma C, daughter of D. F. and Elizabeth McGrew, of this place, by whom he has two children: Wallace F. and Earl A. Mr. Root and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is Steward and Class Leader, and for upward of ten years he has been Superintendent of the Sabbath-school, in which he takes an active interest, being one of its earnest workers. He has served his township three terms as Justice of the Peace, also several terms as Trustee, which latter office he now holds. In politics he is a Democrat.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885