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Randall, James Ryder – Randolph, Edmund
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, 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, 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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