Marin County Biographies

WILLIAM E. RANDALL

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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             (deceased).  Was born in Greensboro, Vermont, 
May 13, 1824, and there resided until 1849.  During his boyhood he acquired the 
trade of a carpenter, and followed it until the time of his coming to 
California.  He first located in San Francisco, and commenced business as a 
butcher, but after a few months he moved to San Jos�, and in the Fall of 1850 
went to the mines, there remaining until 1853; in the Fall returning to Santa 
Clara county.  He next went with John Nelson to Oregon, and in his company came 
to this county in the Spring of 1857.  His widow now owns fourteen hundred acres 
of land, on which she conducts a dairy business.  Married, in October, 1849, 
Sarah Seaver, by whom there are Elizabeth, William James, Fanny J., Raymond, 
Mary L.  Mr. Randall lost his life at the hands of B. Miller, in June, 1860.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880