Business and public career
He came to Raleigh after studying at the academy in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and spending a short period in New York City. Root became involved in trade when he arrived in Raleigh in 1837. He managed a jewelry business owned by Bernard Dupuy for five years, before buying the company out on November 15, 1843. He sold the firm in 1860 and was never involved in business trade afterward. For a decade (1852)''-'' (1862) he was director of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Raleigh. Root was elected tax collector of Raleigh in 1884 ''Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2'', Edward McCrady Jr. and Samuel A'Court Ashe, Brant & Fuller, Madison, Wisconsin, 1892, pg. 364. and also served as a city alderman and chairman of county commissioners.Marriage
Root was married to Anne Freeman Gales Root (1821 ''-'' 1894). She was the daughter of Weston Raleigh Gales (1803 ''-'' 1848), a Raleigh editor and the niece of Joseph Gales, once the editor of the National Intelligencer. Anne's personal correspondence, primarily her letters to her daughter, Love, written between (1841) ''-'' (1872), are now a part of the Wilson Library collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Death
Root died in Raleigh in 1903.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Root, Charles Boudinot 1810s births 1903 deaths People from Wake County, North Carolina People from Montague, Massachusetts American silversmiths