Recellus Root
Recellus Root, farmer, P. O. Ravenna, was born May 25, 1816, in Denmark, Lewis Co., N. Y., where his parents, Alpheus and Electa (Bardwell) Root, resided until their death. Our subject came to Ohio in 1837, and after spending a few months in Cuyahoga County, finally located in this county in the autumn of that year. Here he married, January 1, 1845, Miss Adeline Howard, born in Sistersville, Tyler Co., Va. (now West Virginia), September 12, 1821, and brought to this place when a year and a half old by her parents, Salmon and Ruth (Taylor) Howard, and here Mr. Howard cleared and developed a farm, where the parents resided until their death. Mr. Root bought of Mr. Howard the homestead place, and has here resided since 1847. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Root are Mrs. Eliza H. King; Edwin R., attorney at law. New Y'ork City; Mrs Ollie J. Phelps; John H., agent of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, Medina, Ohio; Arthur W., in the office of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad, Cleveland, Ohio; Fred and J. Wesley. Mr. Root is an ardent Republican. He and his family adhere to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885