Biographies:   Edgar H. RANDALL, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Edgar H. Randall, a well known business man of Eau Claire, has been a
resident here since 1856.  He is the son of Adin Randall, who was born
in Brookfield, Madison county, New York, October 12, 1829, and came to
Wisconsin in 1854, settling first at Madison, this state, where Edgar,
our subject, was born on May 5, 1855.  Adin Randall followed his trade
of carpenter and joiner for one year in Madison, and in the fall of 1855
came to Eau Claire and in the spring of 1856 moved his family here,
consisting of his wife and two children.  Soon after his arrival he
engaged in the lumber business with the firm of Gage & Reed, whose mill
occupied the site where the Mississippi River Logging Company's lower
mill on the Eau Claire river was located.  He soon after sold his
interests to J. G. Thorp and purchased the land on the west side of the
river south of Grand avenue west, extending from Half Moon lake to the
river, and platted it as Adin Randall's first and second addition to the
city of Eau Claire, but it was generally known at that time as "Randall
Town."  He built a saw mill, which he equipped with machinery for
planing and making sash, doors and blinds.  In 1861 he moved to Chippewa
Falls and ran the big mill there.  In 1863 he built a dam and saw mill
at Jim's Falls, which he conducted until 1865, when he sold it to French
& Giddings, and then bought a mill at Reed's Landing, which he fitted up
and operated until he died, April 26, 1868.  He gave Randall Park and
Lake View cemetery to the city; also half of the high school lots and
the lots for the First Congregational Church.

On March 8, 1852, Adin Randall married at Brookfield, N. Y., Miss
Clamenzia E. Babcock, daughter of Rawson and Maudana Babcock, and they
reared a family of six children, viz.: Burdett M., Edgar H., Nellie G.,
Dora M., Eva and Adin W. Randall.  The mother of these children passed
away on November 1, 1885.

Edgar H. obtained his education in the public schools of Eau Claire,
learned the trade of sign painter, and since 1876 has been engaged in
sign business in this city.  Mr. Randall married, on August 4, 1887,
Miss Helen M., daughter of John A. and Mary J. Bride, of Otter Creek
township, Eau Claire county.  To Mr. and Mrs. Randall have been born
three children, viz.:  Adin A., born August 30, 1888; Everett H., born
April 12, 1890, and Helen Fern, born March 3, 1893.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
pages 842-843.