Root, G. Herbert (George Herbert)

George Herbert Root, of Wasco, Oregon, attended OAC from about 1902 to 1905 as a mechanical engineering and later agriculture student. He was captain of the 1905 football team. Root came from a family of wheat farmers in the Wasco, Oregon, area. His son, H. Floyd Root, attended OSC about 1931, and two grandsons attended OSU in the early 1960s.

From the guide to the G. Herbert Root Photograph Collection, [ca. 1891] - 1936, 1902 - [ca. 1905], (Oregon State University Libraries University Archives)