Background
He was born in Granville, Ohio and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was born in Granville, Ohio and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On 20 June 1846, he bought John Jabez Edwin Mayall"s Chestnut Street photography studio that was in the same building as Root"s residence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Root Brothers had a gallery in New York City from 1849 to 1857. Marcus Aurelius Root authored an important book on photography entitled The Camera and the Pencil.