Grace Worcester Root (25 April 1869 – 15 July 1898) was an American actress and composer who died from chloroform poisoning.
[2] Root was born in Boston to a musical family.
Her mother was Mary Olive Woodman and her father was George Frederick Root, who was well known for his Civil War songs.
Her older brother Frederic Woodman Root was also a composer.
She appeared as an actress with a company run by the Frohman Brothers, and died from chloroform poisoning in Portland, Maine, when she was 29 years old.