This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Root Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/261 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, July 1, 1918 ELMER ROOT IN CAMP HUMPHREY. >From Friday’s Daily. Judge Jesse L. ROOT is in the city today having a case in the district court which he is looking after and in conversation with the Judge he was telling about his sons, which will be remembered as two young men, the oldest Elmer, having grown to almost manhood when he left this city. Elmer having graduated from the state university some years since while Marvin has but recently left that institution, with his full degrees. Elmer the older is now a Lieutenant and is located at Camp Humphrey, Va. He was for some time at Camp Funston, and is now in the engineering corps, in the southern corps, in the southern camp, and employed as a drill master for other troops. He is a graduate of applied engineering, and has had much experience in that line over much of the country, having superintended construction on a large scale in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other points, then returning to Omaha, he also was thus engaged there. Being a mathematician of unusual ability, he has been ! giving instruction in the matter of range getting over obstacles, such as unevenness of the ground like over a ridge of sand where it is desired to catch the object of the other side. Marvin who graduated as an agricultural engineer, is in Class 1 limited service, but expects to be called for something which he can do in the near future