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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  RODOLPHUS OGILVIE RANDALL, Jeweler and Queensware Merchant, was born at
Brockport, Monroe County, N. Y., April 15, 1840, and is a son of Myrick O. and
Lucy N. (Kingsbury) Randall, natives, respectively, of Vermont and New York. He
was reared and educated at Brockport, and while quite a youth learned the trade
of watchmaker. At the age of eighteen years he went to New York City, and there,
under James M. Bottom, at the time the leading watchmaker of this country,
perfected his trade. He came to Gadsden in September, 1858, took charge of Kyle,
Wynne & Co.'s jewelry department, and remained with them until January, 1860. At
that date his employers dissolved partnership, and he purchased their jewelry
stock and started in business for himself. March, 1862, he enlisted as a private
soldier in Company A, Thirty-first Alabama Infantry, and with that command
served one year. Leaving the service at Vicksburg, he returned to Gadsden,
resumed the jewelry business and followed it until 1872. His was the first
jewelry store, exclusively, established at Gadsden.

  From 1872 to 18 5 he devoted his time to life-insurance business, and spent
part of that period at Mobile, Atlanta and Louisville. In the fall of the
last-named year he returned to Gadsden, and in the latter part of 1886
established his present business. He has the finest establishment of the kind in
North Alabama.

  February 22, 1860, Mr. Randall married Miss Josephine Turrentine, daughter of
the late Gen. D. C. Turrentine, and has had born to him ten children, eight of
whom are now living, namely: Carrie L. (Mrs. John L. Caldwell), James W., Robert
E., Ruth, Bianca, Joseph P., Edith and Daniel M.

  The family are connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mr.
Randall is a Knight of Honor and a Knight Templar Mason.

  In addition to his mercantile business, Mr. Randall is vice-president of the
First National Rank, president of the Gadsden Metallic Paint Company, and is
more or less interested in several other of Gadsden's leading enterprises.

  The senior Mr. Randall was a watchmaker and jeweler for many years. Of his
three children the subject of this sketch was the eldest. His second son, Eugene
A., was a jeweler also, and died at the age of thirty years. His only daughter,
Bianca, is the wife of C. F. Miller, of Chattanooga, Tenn. The old gentleman is
yet living, and is seventy-one years of age. His father was Nathaniel Randall, a
farmer by occupation, born at Pembrook, Mass.; married Betsy Brown, who, like
himself, was of old Puritan stock. He reared a family of eight sons and two
daughters, all but two of whom married and brought up families. The Kingsbury
family is also of Massachusetts Puritan stock, and lived near Boston. There are
living in various States of the Union a large number of Kingsburys, all
descendants of the same stock.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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