Marin County Biographies

WILLIAM JAS. RANDALL

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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              Was born at Murphy�s Camp, Calaveras county, 
Cal., April 1, 1852.  Came to this county with his parents in 1857.  At the age 
of seven years he went to Mrs. Varney�s boarding school at Petaluma for six 
months, and thereafter attended the educational establishment in his own 
district until 1869, when he returned to Petaluma to the academy of Prof. 
Lippitt, which he attended for one year.  Subsequently he went to Heald�s 
Business College at San Francisco, and graduated from that institution December 
22, 1873, finishing the course in less than six months, when he returned home, 
and has since resided on the Randall farm.  In 1876 he visited the birthplace of 
his parents in Vermont, being absent three months.  Married, January 15, 1879, 
to Abbie Louise Perham.
 
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