Later he took a position with John Butler Snook in New York. of Renwick and Sands of New York as an unpaid apprentice. After graduation, he took a job with the architect James Renwick, Jr. Īfter Root returned to the U.S., he earned an undergraduate degree from New York University in 1869. His later design work was said to have been influenced by the pioneering work of Liverpool architect Peter Ellis, who designed and built the world's first two metal-framed, glass curtain-walled buildings, Oriel Chambers (1864) and 16 Cook Street (1866). While in Liverpool, Root studied at Clare Mount School. His mother and sister went to Cuthbert, Georgia. When Atlanta fell to the Union during the American Civil War, Root's father sent young Root and two other boys on a steamer to the United Kingdom, where his father, Sidney, had a shipping business based in Liverpool, England. Root was raised in Atlanta, where he was first educated at home.
He was named after a maternal uncle, Marshall Johnson Wellborn. John Wellborn Root was born in 1850 in Lumpkin, Georgia, the son of Sidney Root, a planter, and his wife, Mary Harvey Clark.
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