Education
Born in Tamaroa, Illinois he attended Harvard College graduating with an Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1891. Roots later attended the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, graduating in 1896 and was subsequently ordained deacon.
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In the autumn of 1896 Roots crossed the Pacifc to start his new life as a church missionary in China. His initial assignment was as an English instructor at the Boone School in Wuchang. Roots was consecrated at Emmanuel Church in Boston on November 14, 1904 as the second Bishop of Hankow, succeeding James Addison Ingle.
Saint Paul"s Cathedral in Hankow was used as a hospital to treat the battle wounded and normal church activity was very much restricted.
Roots was in turn succeeded as bishop in 1925 by Alfred A. Gilman. Roots was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity by both the University of the South and Harvard University.
He died in 1945 on Mackinac Island, where he is buried.
Membership
At Harvard he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.
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Anglican