Oliver W. Root

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1835-10-03

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1904-08-03

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"Oliver W. Root" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005424, (accessed April 30, 2025).

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Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Campbell County, Kentucky, native. Son of Ira Root and Sarah Perry Root. Attended school in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Graduated from Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1858. Attorney in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Graduated from Cincinnati Law School in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1861. County attorney for Campbell County, Kentucky, from 1861 to 1865. Served in the 42nd Enrolled Militia (U.S.A.) as a private from September 2, 1862, to September 27, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 28A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 597.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 302A.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 875.
"O.W. Root Passed Away," The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), August 4, 1904, p. 5.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 414.
"The Late Hon. O.W. Root," The Miami Student, vol. XXIV (Hamilton, OH: The Republican Press, 1905), 1-2.

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