This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Root, Reed Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6192.1 Message Board Post: History of Allegany County, New York 1806-1879 p. 223 [Bolivar] I. E. ROOT was born in Bolivar December 25th, 1832. He is a son of Abel ROOT, Jr., one of the early settlers of the town. Mr. ROOT has spent all his life in Bolivar, excepting the period passed in the army during the civil war and three years spent in Winnebago county, Ill. He enlisted in the 189th regiment N.Y. volunteers September 1st, 1862, and was mustered out June 2nd, 1865. While in the service he filled the position of brigade blacksmith. He is a blacksmith, carpenter and joiner and owns a shop in Bolivar. He has filled the position of inspector of elections and overseer of the poor. He was married September 2nd, 1860, to Miss Elmira REED, a daugther of Jerome B. REED.