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Root, A. I. An Eyewitness Account of Early American Beekeeping: the Autobiography of A. I. Root.
Medina A. I. Root Company 1984 093602819X / 9780936028194 Softcover Very Good
An A. I. Root Bee Library Book. 165, [1] pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, back strip slightly frayed else very good. Scarce. From the preface by John A. Root, "In 1875, about two years after the founding of Gleanings in Bee Culture, A. I. Root began the publication of 'Our Homes. " This was in response to his burning desire to help human beings to live better and happier lives. His heart-to-heart talks were to continue for 48 yeas, the desire to help others increasing as time went on. At the age of 84 his keenest pleasure was that of preparing the following autobiography. He prepared a series of articles, giving his own story of his life, to be published after his death. These installments were published monthly, in Gleanings in Bee Culture under the title of "A. I. Root's Story of his Own Life' from June 1923 until November, 1928. Because few of our contemporary readers would have had the opportunity to share this fascinating series of autobiographical writings, we now offer them to you in this form. " From the Wikipedia website: "Amos Ives Root (1839-1923) founder of the A. I. Root Company and developed innovative beekeeping techniques in the United States during the mid 1800s; at the time, these played an important role in the local economies of many communities. He began his career as a jewelry manufacturer and took up beekeeping in his twenties as a hobby. Among his major contributions was a method to harvest honey without destroying the beehive. He became a nationally- and internationally-known expert and a wealthy businessman. He lived and worked in Medina, Ohio. Always enthusiastic about technology, he took great interest in the newly-invented automobile, purchasing an Oldsmobile Runabout in 1903. He held strong Christian beliefs, and wrote about his ideas and observations of contemporary society in his trade journal Gleanings in Bee Culture. When he read sketchy newspaper reports about the Wright Brothers in early 1904, he decided to visit them and learn more. He drove his car nearly 200 miles on primitive roads to Dayton. On September 20, he witnessed Wilbur Wright fly the first complete circle by a heavier-than-air flying machine. He apparently also saw several other flights. Greatly enthusiastic about aviation, he delayed publishing an account of the flights in his magazine until the following January at the request of the Wrights. That article and follow-ups he wrote were the only published eyewitness reports of Wright Brothers flights at Huffman Prairie, a pasture outside Dayton where the Wrights developed the first practical airplane. He offered his reports to Scientific American magazine, but was turned down. In the late 1920s, his company transitioned to the manufacture of specialized candles for liturgical and other uses and continues in business to the present day. " ; 165 pages
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