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learned and was a life member of the Ohio State
Archaeological and
Historical Society.
Joseph Green Butler,
Jr., married Harriet Voorhes
Ingersoll, of
Honesdale, Pennsylvania, January 10,
1866. Of this union
were born Mrs. Blanche (Butler)
Ford, Mrs. Grace
Ingersoll (Butler) McGraw, and Mr.
Henry A. Butler. The
latter two survive. Mrs. Butler
died in 1921.
Mr. Butler was
familiarly known as "Uncle Joe,"
and his wide circle
of acquaintances and friends felt a
personal loss, when
they learned that his death had
come on the eve of
the celebration of his eighty-seven
years of life in the
Mahoning Valley.
PROF. AZARIAH SMITH
ROOT
A librarian of state,
national and international repu-
tation died at his
home in Oberlin, Ohio, Sunday, Octo-
ber 2, 1927. He was
born at Middlefield, Massachu-
setts, February 3,
1862. He was the son of Solomon F.
and Anna (Smith)
Root.
He came as a student
to Oberlin College, Oberlin,
Ohio, from Dalton,
Massachusetts, in 1879. He was
graduated from the
College with the degree of A. B., in
1884, and received
his A. M. degree in 1887. He was a
law student at Boston
University from 1884 to 1885;
cataloguer in the
Oberlin College Library from 1885 to
1886, and student at
Harvard Law School from 1886
to 1887 and at the
University of Gottingen, Germany, in
1898 and 1899. He was
a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
For forty years
Professor Root was librarian of the
Oberlin College
Library; and was, for some time, an
annual lecturer
before the Library Schools of Columbia,