Abraham Hartog Root, the 3rd child of Mozes Root and Leentje Frank, was born 23 July 1881 in Post Nassau in the district of Beneden Saramacca in Suriname. His parents were married in Paramaribo in 1875 but with their then four children returned to the Netherlands in 1891, where three more children were born in Amsterdam in the following years.
Abraham Hartog Root was a dealer in flowers and he was…