About Winfred Trexler Root
Lived 1879 – 1947 (aged 68). Winfred Trexler Root was a historian.
Winfred Trexler Root (March 9, 1879 – December 8, 1947) was an American historian and educator. Root was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania and received his undergraduate education at Princeton University. He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908, thereafter joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. George L. Mosse, who was a history professor at Iowa during Root's tenure, described him as a "benevolent dictator". In 1930 Root was elected to the Council of the American Historical Association.
Root was married and had one daughter.
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American historian and educator
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Winfred Trexler Root died on 8 December 1947.
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