Rand, Jasper – Randolph, Jacob
Rand, Jasper
lawyer, legislator, was born in March, 1829, in Charlestown, Mass. In 1849 he sailed around the Horn to California, where he engaged in mining successfully. In 1862 he moved to Idaho; thence two years later to Missoula, Mont., where he served two terms as a member of the territorial council.
Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of law at Lewiston, Idaho; and has been mayor of that city.
RAND, MRS. MARY FRANCES [AB- BOTT], author, was born in 1840 in Maine. She is the author of Holly and Mistletoe; and Home-Spun Yarns for Christmas Stockings.
Rand, Theodore Dehon
mineralogist, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 16, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He early turned his attention to natural science, especially to mineralogy, and his cabinet of specimens ranks as one of the best private collections in the United States, containing very nearly a complete set of the rocks and minerals of Philadelphia and its vicinity. He is the author of several mineralogical and geological works.
Rand, William Wilberforce
was born Dec. 8, 1816, in Gorham, Maine.
He was pastor of the Reformed Dutch church of Canastota, N. Y., from 1841 till 1845; editor for the American Tract society, New York city, in 1848-72, and has since been its publishing secretary. is the author of Songs of Zion; Dictionary of the Bible for General Use; and other smaller books.
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Randall, Alexander
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.
Randall, Alexander Williams
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 31, 1819, in Ames, N. Y.
He was appointed postmaster of Waukesha, Wis.; and in 1854 was elected to the state legislature. In 1856 he was appointed judge of the second judicial district of the state; and in 1857 and 1859 was elected governor of Wisconsin. At the close of the war he was appointed assistant postmaster-general. In 1866 he entered President Johnson's cabinet as postmaster-general. He died July 25, 1872, in Elmira, N. Y.
Randall, Archibald
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1834 he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas at Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 1842 was appointed judge of the United States district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. In 1844 he presided over both the district and circuit courts. His decisions in bankruptcy are in the Pennsylvania Law Journal from 1842 to 1846. He died May 30, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Randall, Benjamin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 14, 1857, in Bath, Maine. He was a member of the state senate in 1833; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1839 to 1843. He was appointed collector of the port of Bath, Maine.
Randall, Charles S
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1824, in New Bedford, Mass. He retired from mercantile business in 1872; was for three years a member of the Massachusetts republican state committee; and represented the third Massachusetts senatorial district in the state senate in 1883 and 1884. He was elected to the fiftyfirst and fifty-second congresses and reelected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.
Randall, David Austin
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Jan. 14, 1813, in Colchester, Conn. He was a baptist clergyman and religious editor of Ohio; and the author of God's Handwriting in Egypt; and The Wonderful Tent, or the Mosaic Tabernacle. He died June 27, 1884, in Columbus, Ohio.
Randall, Emilius Oviatt
lawyer, lecturer, writer, was born Oct. 28, 1850, in Richfield, Ohio. He graduated from Cornell university; and from the college of law of the Ohio state university. He has been a reporter of the supreme court of Ohio; secretary of the Ohio State Historical society; and professor of commercial law in the Ohio state university. He is a successful public lecturer on art, history and literature; a writer of note; and the editor of Decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He is also president of the Columbus board of trade.
Randall, Henry Stephens
educator, author, was born in 1811 in Madison county, N. Y. He was a prominent advocate of public instruction in New York state; and the author of Sheep Husbandry; Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry; Practical Shepherd; and Life of Thomas Jefferson. He died Aug. 14, 1876, in Cortland, N. Y.
Randall, James Ryder
author, was born Jan. 1, 1839, in Baltimore, Md.
He is a journalist of Augusta, Ga., and elsewhere in the south, who has written a number of spirited lyrics, the best known of which is the famous song, Maryland, My Maryland.
Randall, John Witt
poet, was born Nov 6, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He has been largely occupied with the cultivation of an ancestral country-seat in Stow, Mass., and has accumulated one of the rarest and most original collections of engravings in the United States. Besides doing other literary work, he has written six volumes of poems, of which only one has been published, Consolations of Solitude.
Randall, Perry A
lawyer, business man, was born July 24, 1847, in Avilla, Ind. In 1867 he graduated from the Fort Wayne high school; from the university of Michigan in 1871, and from the law department of the same institution in 1873. The same year he began the practice of law in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he has since attained success as one of the foremost law- He was one of the yers of that state. founders of the Fort Wayne Electric company, and its vice-president since 1882. He is vice-president of the Fort Wayne Furniture company, also of the Indiana Machine works; and is financially interested in numerous other business enterprises.
Randall, Samuel Jackson
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He served one term in the state senate of Pennsylvania. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat. He was speaker of the house during the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died April 12, 1890, in Washington, D. C.
Randall, Samuel Sidwell
éducator, author, was born May 27, 1809, in Norwich, N. Y. He was a superintendent of public schools in New York city in 1854-70; and the author of History of the State of New York; Mental and Moral Culture; Principles of Popular Education; and Incitements to the Study of Geology.
He died June 3, 1881, in New York city.
Randall, T
lawyer, jurist, was a native of Maryland. He removed to Tallahassee, Fla.; and was appointed United States judge for the territory of Florida, holding the position until 1832.
Randall, William H
lawyer, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.
Randle, Frederick Alanson
lawyer, historical novelist, was born Jan. 21, 1854, in Bunker Hill, Ill. He attended the McKendree college; and has attained success as an able lawyer of his native state at Hillsboro. He is the author of several historical novels; and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.
Randolph, Alfred Magill
bishop of southern Virginia, was born Aug. 31, 1836, in Winchester, Va. In 1894 the diocese of Virginia was divided, and Dr. Randolph chose the new see of southern Virginia.
Randolph, Anson Davies Fitz
journalist, author, was born in 1820 in New Jersey. He was a publisher and religious verse-writer of New York city; and the author of Hopefully Waiting; Verses; At the Beautiful Gate; The Palace of the King; and Unto the Desired Haven. He died in 1896.
Randolph, Beverly
state legislator, governor, was born in 1754. He was a member of the Virginia assembly during the revolution; and was governor of Virginia during 1788-91. He died in February, 1797, in Cumberland, Va.
Randolph, David B. F
clergyman, was born Jan. 23, 1848, in Newark, N. J.
In 1871 he graduated from the Drew Theological seminary with the degree of B. D. The same year he joined the Newark annual conference of the methodist episcopal church, and has filled pastorates in Hoboken, Newark, Hackettstown, West New Brighton, and is now pastor of the Trinity church of Jersey City.
Randolph, Edmund
congressman, governor, was born in Virginia. He was a delegate to the continental congress from Virginia from 1779 to 1783; and in 1788 was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, but voted against its adoption. In 1788 he was governor of Virginia. In 1789 he was attorney-general of the United States; and in 1794 was secretary of state of the United States. He died Sept. 13, 1813.
Randolph, Edmund
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born June 9, 1820, in Richmond, Va. He was for several years clerk of the United States circuit court for Louisiana, but in 1849 he removed to California. He was an active member of the legislature that met at San José in 1849 to organize a state government. died Sept. 8, 1861, in San Francisco, Cal.
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Randolph, Jacob
physician, surgeon, author, was born Nov. 25, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He had acquired a wide reputation as a surgeon, and in 1831 introduced in the United States the operation of lithotripsy. He published several reports of successful operations. He died April 12, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa.