Horace White Root
Kentucky Post, Monday, 1 October 1956, page 1
DEATH
Services for Horace White root, 87, Newport attorney for 50 years before his retirement in 1949, and lifelong resident of Campbell county, will be held at 10 am Tuesday at the Dobbling Funeral Home, Ft Thomas. Committal services will follow at the Cincinnati Crematory. Mr. Root, who served as city solicitor of Newport, from 1913 to 1917, was an unsuccessful candidate for commonwealth attorney, the only elective office, he ever sought in the 1930s. He was admitted to practice in 1891.
Ill a long time, he died late Saturday at his home, 1048 N Ft Thomas avenue, Ft Thomas. He was the son of the late James C Root, attorney and a grandson of the late Richard Southgate attorney, for whom the city of Southgate was named and grandson of the late Ira Root, also an attorney and author of the section of the Kentucky State Constitution establishing the state common school system in 1850-51.
Mr. Root was named for the late Horace White, editor of the Saturday Evening Post,, at the time of Mr. Root's birth and friend of the family. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Melissa Root, a daughter, Mrs. Irene Ware, Ft Thomas; a brother Albert H Root, Newport city engineer and four sisters, Mrs. Blanche Speairs, Mrs. Mary Wright, Mrs. F E Smith and Mrs. J Bailey Morlidge, all of Ft Thomas. Mrs. Morlidge is the wife of a former city manager and city commissioner of Newport.
A nephew, Albert H Root, city attorney of Southgate and assistant Campbell county attorney was associated in practice with Mr. Root for many years. Friends may call from 4 to 9 am Monday at the funeral home.