Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Randall, Albert T 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 February 2, 2008, 3:08 am

Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

ALBERT T. RANDALL. Business circles of Channahon find a worthy representative 
in Albert T. Randall, a well known merchant who is dealing in dry goods and 
groceries, and his methods are such as insure him a liberal patronage. June 7, 
1837, was the date of his birth and the place of his nativity was Brecksville, 
Ohio. In the paternal line he is descended from English ancestors who crossed 
the Atlantic about 1640, while the Russell family, from which he is descended 
in the maternal line, was established in America about 1660. The Randall 
family was represented in the Revolutionary war and also in the war of 1812, 
while Albert T. Randall and two of his brothers were valiant soldiers of the 
Civil war. Thus the family has an excellent military record. John T. Randall, 
father of our subject, was a native of New England. He lived with his parents 
in Vermont until ten years of age, when the family removed to the state of New 
York, where he resided until 1835. In that year he went to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, where he was united in marriage to Miss Beulah S. Russell, continuing a 
resident of Ohio until 1839, when he returned to his old home in New York. 
There he resided until 1849, which year witnessed his arrival in Will county, 
Illinois. He was one of its early settlers and took up his abode in Troy 
township, where he lived for five years, when he removed to Channahon 
township, where he continued to reside until called to his final rest on the 
30th of November, 1882. He was born in Orleans county, Vermont, August 2, 
1815, and was therefore sixty-seven years of age at the time of his demise. 
His wife, who was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, April 24, 1815, and whom 
he wedded in Ohio, September 4, 1836, survived him for about nine years, 
passing away September 16, 1891. They were the parents of six children, of 
whom Albert T. is the eldest. The others are: Oscar Randall, now deceased; 
Gresham A. Randall, who is living in Elkhart, Indiana; Laura A., who has 
passed away; Mrs. Mary A. Warren, who resides at No. 6347 Drexel boulevard, 
Chicago; and Joseph R., also deceased. Albert T. Randall was educated in the 
public schools. He accompanied his parents on their various removals through 
the period of his minority and when twenty-one years of age went to Wisconsin, 
where he lived with an uncle for two years. He then returned to his father's 
home, but continued there for only two months, for at the outbreak of the gold 
fever in Colorado he made his way to Pike's Peak, hoping to rapidly realize a 
fortune in the mines of that district. He remained there for seven years and 
it was while in Colorado that he espoused the Union cause and joined the army, 
enlisting on the 9th of September, 1861. He was assigned to duty with Company 
H, First Colorado Infantry, and served until after the close of the war, when 
he was mustered out and honorably discharged December 14, 1865. Mr. Randall 
was married April 30, 1863, to Miss Annie Tollard, who was the fourth in order 
of birth in a family of nine children, her parents being Henry and Rachel 
Tollard. Three of this number are yet living, two brothers, Thomas and William 
Tollard, being residents of St. Joseph, Missouri. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Randall 
have been born three children: Mrs. Maud Weese, whose birth occurred August 
22, 1866, and who is now living in Joliet; John T., who was born December 18, 
1870, and is living in Mannsville, Indian Territory; and Mrs. Laura A. Chase, 
who was born September 16, 1872, and is now living in Quincy, Illinois. After 
the close of the war Mr. Randall returned to Channahon township and was 
engaged in farming until 1890, when he turned his attention to merchandising, 
establishing a dry-goods and grocery store in the village of Channahon. He has 
since conducted this enterprise, with the exception of one year spent in St. 
Joseph, Missouri, and with the exception of that period has continuously been 
a resident of Channahon township since the close of the war. He owns eighty 
acres of rich and productive land on sections 17 and 18 and he has in the 
village a well stocked store, carrying a carefully selected line of goods 
which brings to him a liberal patronage. He supports the republican party and 
has been supervisor, collector, assessor and justice of the peace, remaining 
almost continuously in public office for a number of years. In the discharge 
of his duties he is ever prompt and faithful and is a most public-spirited 
citizen. Local progress and national advancement are causes both dear to his 
heart and in days of peace he is as true and loyal to his country as when he 
followed the nation's starry banner on the battle-fields of the south.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/randall2435nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 5.5 Kb