Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....Randall, William Floyd 1867 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 13, 2007, 2:55 am Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899) WILLIAM FLOYD RANDALL, M. D. - One of the most exacting of all the higher lines of occupation to which a man may lend his energies is that of the physician. A most scrupulous preliminary training is demanded, and a nicety of judgment but little understood by the laity. Our subject is well fitted for the profession which he has chosen as a life work, and his skill and ability have won for him a lucrative practice in and around Dushore, Pennsylvania, where he is now located. The Doctor is a native of Sullivan county, born in Forks township, February 7, 1867, and is a son of Dr. Wallace J. and Sarah (Green) Randall. The father, who died at Forksville, October 3, 1881, was for twenty-two years one of the leading physicians of the county. He was born at Columbia Cross Roads, Bradford county, this state, and settled at Forksville in 1859. He was a prominent Republican and twice was his party's nominee for congress. Fraternally he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Patrons of Husbandry. Our subject is the oldest in his family of six children, the others being Esther M., now the wife of Rev. Charles Shonabacher; Moses L., a carpenter at Lincoln Falls, Pennsylvania; John W., who is still on the homestead farm at Forksville; Washington E., a clerk in a drug store at Forksville; and Maude, who resides with her mother at the old home at Forksville. Dr. Randall, of this sketch, pursued his studies in the public schools of Forksville and Hepburnville, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and later took a two-years course in the academic department of the Williamsport Commercial College, and then graduated in the business course in September, 1883. Subsequently he took a special course in German and a post-graduate course at the commercial college. After working for one year as bookkeeper for Lancaster & Stevens at Forksville, he entered the office of Dr. Francis Chaffee and began the study of his chosen profession. He spent the winter of 1886-7 at the College of Physicians & Surgeons in Baltimore, and in the spring of the latter year became interested in the drug business at Forksville with Dr. Chaffee. In the spring of 1889 he graduated at the medical department of the University of Baltimore, and then opened an office at Forksville, where he engaged in practice for a time. He took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in the winter of 1892-3, and on leaving Forksville in the fall of 1897 attended lectures at Philadelphia for six weeks. On his return to Sullivan county he opened an office in Dushore, and was not long in building up a large and lucrative practice, which he still enjoys. He makes a specialty of the diseases of women and children and also of the diseases of the nose, ear and throat. He was appointed pension examiner in September, 1898, and is an honored member of the Bradford County Medical Society and the State Medical Society. He is also a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. On the 18th of April, 1888, the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Della J. Fleming, a daughter of John and Zelphia (Rogers) Fleming, of Forksville, and they now have a little son, William Ralph, born June 5, 1893. Both the Doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and hold an enviable position in social circles. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania by Thomas J. Ingham Compendium of Biography The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago: 1899 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/pafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb