Harrison County, West Virginia          Biography of Boyd RANDAL

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 209

BOYD RANDAL is one of the able school men of West
Virginia, and to that profession, in his personal preparation
and in the practical work of teaching and school administra-
tion, he has devoted all the years of his life since boyhood.
Mr. Randal is now superintendent of the city schools of
Salem.

He was born on a farm in Berkeley County, West Vir-
ginia, January 1, 1888, son of John Ferdinand and Imogene
T. (Welshans) Eandal, and grandson of James F. and Ann
Maria (Onderdonk) Randal. The Randals are of English
lineage. James F. Randal was a Confederate soldier. The
maternal grandfather, Philip Henry Welshans, was of Hol-
land Dutch descent, married Sarah Jane Mallory and spent
his life in Berkeley County, where his daughter Imogene
was born. John F. Randal and wife are still living, the
former a retired farmer. Their three children were named
Boyd, Eliza May and Maria Pauline.

Boyd Randal was reared on his father's farm in the
eastern part of the state, attended rural schools there, and
also Shepherd College State Normal, where he graduated in
1905. He took the regular course in West Virginia Uni-
versity, graduating A. B. in 1909. As a school man he has
been a student constantly since leaving university, and in
1915 he was awarded the A. M. degree by Columbia Uni-
versity, and has taken several courses in the University of
Chicago.

Mr. Randal was instructor of mathematics and physics for
two years, beginning in 1909, in the public schools of
Shinnston, thus doing his first practical educational work
in Harrison County.

During 1911-12 he was instructor of mathematics and
physics in Shepherd College State Normal, and in 1912
assisted in organizing and became principal of the Harpers
Ferry District High School. He was connected with this
high school for six years, and in 1918 became principal of
the high school at Cairo, West Virginia, and from there in
1920 came to his present duties as superintendent of the
city schools of Salem.

Mr. Randal is a member of the West Virginia State Edu-
cational Association and the National Educational Associa-
tion, also the Monongahela Valley Educational Association.
He is a Master Mason and a member of the Kiwanis Club,
of Wild Life League and of the United Brethren Church.

In 1916 he married Miss Anna Morehead Miller. She
was born in Berkeley County, West Virginia, graduated in
1915 from Shepherd College State Normal and during the
following year was teacher in the Berkeley County rural
schools. In 1919 she had special work in physical edu-
cation and subsequently taught physical education for girls
in the Cairo, West Virginia, public schools. Mr. and Mrs.
Randal have one daughter, Keitha Anne.