1. Amos Ives Root was an Ohio entrepreneur who developed innovative techniques for beekeeping during the late 19th century, when the practice played an important role in the economy of many communities in the US He founded his own company, which continues in business to the present day.
Amos Root was born in Medina, Ohio on December 9,1839.
Amos Root began working as a jewelry manufacturer and took up beekeeping in his 20s as a hobby.
Amos Root became a nationally and internationally known expert and a wealthy businessman.
Amos Root held strong Christian beliefs and wrote about his ideas and observations of contemporary society in a trade publication he started, Gleanings in Bee Culture.
The company, now known as Amos Root Candles, is still owned by the Amos Root family and is run by his great-great grandson.
Always eager to learn about new technology, Amos Root took great interest in the Wright brothers after reading sketchy newspaper reports about their 1903 Kitty Hawk flights and experiments in early 1904 in Ohio.
Amos Root combined his curiosity about flying machines with his enthusiasm for another recent invention, the automobile, and drove his 1903 model Oldsmobile runabout nearly 200 miles on primitive roads from Medina to the Wright hometown, Dayton, Ohio, hoping to learn more about the flying experiments.
Amos Root offered his reports to Scientific American magazine, but received no reply.
Amos Root's writing suggested the Wrights' invention would cause profound changes:.
Amos Root became interested in advances in educating blind and deaf children, and contributed to that effort.
Amos Root remained friends with her for the rest of his life.
Amos Root donated $500 toward the creation of the Anti-Saloon League on the recommendation his son Ernest Rob Root, who was attending Oberlin College with Howard Hyde Russell, later a clergyman and founder of the League.