Frank Randall Biography


	This biography appears on pages 366-367 in "History of Dakota 
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				FRANK RANDALL. 

	Frank Randall, one of the well known citizens and substantial 
agriculturists of Burk township, Minnehaha county, has continuously 
resided on his farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 9 
during the past third of a century. His birth occurred in Valparaiso, 
Indiana, on the 23d of January, 1850, his parents being Edwin and 
Paulina (Hewlings) Randall, the former a native of Chautauqua county, 
New York, and the latter of Ohio. Edwin Randall, a carpenter by trade, 
worked at that occupation for a number of years in New York, Ohio and 
in Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1858 he removed to Fayette county, Iowa, 
where he purchased a tract of land for three dollars an acre and 
engaged in farming until 1881. In the fall of the latter year he came 
to South Dakota and purchased and located on a farm of eighty acres in 
Burk township, Minnehaha county. On that place he continued to reside 
until the death of his wife, when he came to live with our subject, in 
whose home he spent the remainder of his life, passing away in 
February, 1912. The period of his residence in Minnehaha county covered 
more than three decades and he gained a wide and favorable acquaintance 
throughout the community. 

	Frank Randall was reared under the parental roof, acquiring his 
education in the district schools of Iowa. When twenty-one years of age 
he started out as an agriculturist on his own account by cultivating 
rented land. In the fall of 1881, as a young man of thirty one years, 
he came to South Dakota and purchased his present home farm of one 
hundred and twenty acres on section 9, Burk township, Minnehaha county, 
paying three dollars an acre for the land. He also purchased eighty 
acres on section 4 and one hundred and sixty acres on section 8, but 
has since given this property to his sons. As an agriculturist he has 
won a well deserved and most gratifying, measure of prosperity, 
following modern, practical methods that have made his labors effective 
and resultant. He is one of the stockholders in the Farmers Elevator 
Company of Dell Rapids. 

	In 1872 Mr. Randall was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Selders, 
of Fayette county, Iowa, by whom he has seven children, as follows: 
Minnie, who is the wife of William Bardell, of Lake county, South 
Dakota; Mertie, who gave her hand in marriage to George Roberts, of 
Huron, South Dakota; Anna, the wife of Harry Loucks, of Trent, South 
Dakota; Lina. the wife of J. W. Morris, of Huffton, South Dakota; 
Lettie, who is the wife of Albert Chidley and resides in Courtenay, 
North Dakota; Ross, at home; and Roy, an agriculturist of Burk 
township. 

	Mr. Randall gives his political allegiance to the democracy, 
exercising his right of franchise in support of its men and measures. 
In business his course has been characterized by strict fidelity to 
principle, and in social relations he has displayed a courtesy and 
cordiality which have won him many friends.