BIO: Robert S. Randall, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLI.

                         BOROUGH OF NEWVILLE. 

453 	BOROUGH OF NEWVILLE.

  ROBERT S. RANDALL, bank teller, Newville, is a grandson of George and 
Margaret (Steinbeck) Randall, natives of Philadelphia, Penn., whose 
parents came from Germany.  George Randall died in 1812 or 1813, and 
his widow in 1856; they had thirteen children, five of whom died young.  
The others were John, David, George, Joseph S., Lawrence H., Sarah, 
Catharine and Mary.  Lawrence H. Randall was born October 14, 1810, 
learned the trade of a tailor, and came to Newville, this county, in 
1833, where he carried on the business until 1875.  He is a director of 
the First National Bank, of which he was an incorporator.  In 1833 he 
was married to Miss Mary Jane Dunlap, of Harrisburg, and on October 14, 
1883, they celebrated their golden wedding, in company with twenty six 
of their descendants and a large number of other friends, receiving 
many expressions of esteem and good-will.  They had twelve children:  
Margaret, Scott, and William, deceased; and Mary, wife of W. R. 
Tittler, of Newville; Sarah A., wife of Albert H. Newman, of 
Catasauqua, Penn.; Edmund, married to Maria E. Williams, and living in 
Catasauqua; William L., living in Altoona; Laura, Marian J., Eva K., 
and Joseph S., living with their parents; and Robert S., who was born 
June 21, 1840, and learned his father's trade, and lived with his 
parents until 1862, when he enlisted at Chambersburg, in Company A, One 
Hundred and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, for nine months.  He 
was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, where he was 
captured and taken to Belle Isle, at Richmond.  He was one of the 5,000 
prisoners paroled by the rebels, who were afterward exchanged and were 
sent to Camp Parole, at Annapolis, Md., thence to Harrisburg, where he 
was honorably discharged with his regiment in May, 1863.  On his return 
he entered a commercial college in Philadelphia to acquire a business 
education, and then was in business with his father for ten years.  In 
1875, he went to Catasauqua, Penn., where, with his brother Edmund, he 
published The Catasauqua Dispatch, still conducted by his brother.  Two 
years later he returned to Newville, this county, and bought the Lewis 
Sumac and Bark Mill, which he ran for three years, when he accepted the 
position of teller of the First National Bank, which he retains.  In 
1868, he was married to Florence, daughter of George Bricker, Sr., of 
Newville, who died in 1871, her two children having preceded her to the 
grave.  Mr. Randall re-married in 1882; his wife is Maimee, a daughter 
of Maj. Edmund Hawkins, of Catasauqua, Penn.  They have two children:  
Ernest H., born October 18, 1883, and Lawrence E., born June 12, 1885.  
Mr. Randall belongs to Colwell Post, No. 201, G. A. R.; has once been 
councilman, and is now school director.  He and his wife are members of 
the United Presbyterian Church.  As a man of character and probity he 
has no superior in the community in which he lives.