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Rand, Benjamin – Randall, Henry Stephens

Rand, Benjamin

educator, author, was born Feb. 16, 1792, in Charlestown, Mass. He is an instructor in philosophy at Harvard university; and the author of Economic History Since 1763; A Bibliography of Economics; and also bibliographies of æsthetics, ethics, psychology, metaphysics, logic, history of philosophy, and philosophy of religion.

Rand, Benjamin Howard

educator, author, was born Feb. 16, 1792, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a Philadelphia teacher of penmanship who published The American Penman and similar works. He died June 9, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Rand, Benjamin Howard

physician, author, was born Oct. 1, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician of Philadelphia; and the author of Outlines of Medical Chemistry; and Elements of Medical Chemistry. He died Feb. 14, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Rand, Edward Augustus

clergyman, author, was born in April, 1837, in Portsmouth, N. H. He is an episcopal clergyman, rector at Watertown, Mass., from 1883; and the author of Christmas Jack; Behind Manhattan Gables; School and Camp Series; Sailor Boy Bob; Pushing Ahead; and Fighting the Sea Series.

Rand, Edward Dean

lawyer, jurist, poet, was born Dec. 26, 1821, in Bath, N. H. In 1874 he was made judge of the circuit court. He is a poet of note and a lawyer of ability.

Rand, Edward Sprague

horticulturist, author, was born Oct. 20, 1834, in Boston, Mass. He was formerly a floriculturist of Dedham, Mass.; and the author of Garden Flowers; Complete Manual of Orchid-Culture; Popular Flowers; Rhododendrons; Flowers for the Parlor and Garden; The Window Gardener; and Life Memoirs and Other Poems.

Rand, Isaac

physician, author, was born April 27, 1743, in Charlestown, Mass.

From 1798 till 1804 he was president of the Massachusetts Medical society, and he was also a corresponding member of the London Medical society. He published papers Hydrocephalus Internus; Yellow Fever; and on The Use of Warm Bath and Digitalis in Pulmonary Consumption.

He died Dec. 11, 1822, in Boston, Mass. on

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, 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.