Susan Bridgman Root

Susan Bridgman Root

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Miss Susan Bridgman Root, former principal of the Hillside School for Girls and for the past 15 years a resident of Winchester, died on Sunday night in the Winchester Hospital.

Miss Root was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts on October 8, 1850. She was the daughter of Harrison and Caroline (Holland) Root and was one of a family of six children who included the late Prof. Elihu Root, one of the most eminent of Amherst professors.

Miss Root graduated from Mt. Holyoke Seminary in the Class of 1876, and for many years taught at the Hillside School for Girls in Norwalk, Connecticut, of which she was principal at the time of her retirement. After living for some time in Sharon. Miss Root moved to Winchester in 1919, having in later years made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Horace D. Likins. She was then aide and a regular attendant of the First Congregational Church, although she continued her membership in the church at Belchertown.

Funeral services took place on Sunday afternoon at the Mt. Auburn Crematory and were conducted by Rev. F. Q. Blanchard, D.D., of Cleveland, a family friend who had known the deceased in her active year. The ashes were interred in her family lot at Belchertown.

Miss Root leaves a sister. Mrs. Harriet M. Simons of Greenfield and several nieces and nephews, including Harrison F. Lyman of Winchester and Elihu R. Lyman of Woburn.

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Susan Bridgeman Root

Citation:
The Norwalk Hour - 1934-07-10
Text: ... car out and Miss Susan Bridgeman Root On dr ve a 0 Lockwood, when hc drove Into the yard, had noticed smoke lng rear of the garage but thought lt was rubbish burning. After he drove the ...
Publication title: The Norwalk Hour
Residence: Winchester
Publication place: Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
Date: July 10 1934