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Randall Family
Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

The Randall Family

Erie County, Pennsylvania contributed many pioneers to the settlement of the Midwest; among these were Alcy Haanen Randall and her family of 5 sons and 1 daughter. Her husband, Swift Randall, a native of Rhode Island, had been one of the early settlers of Erie County, Pennsylvania. His death had taken place some years before the family's exodus to Wisconsin.

Randall family history by Mabel Krohn.

The 1850 census show the family next to Lucius P. Wedge, in the town of Waupun:
Dwelling 1144, family 1163
Warren Randall, 26, farmer
Elsey Randall, 22
Joshua Randall, 21
Guilford Randall, 18
Wesley Randall, 15
Hiram Randall, 11
Elsey Randall, 54
Martha Dexter, 21
Margaret Jordan, 13

Warren Randall, the oldest, married Maria Groesbeck.

Elcy Randall, the sister, married M. Stearns. Their three children are dead: Alice died in the spring of 1947. Following her death the farm, which had been owned by the Stearns family for 94 years, passed to another owner.

Joshua Randall married Electra Potter. When their oldest child was six weeks old, they moved to Minnesota, going in a covered wagon.

Guilford Randall, married Sarah Howard.

Wesley Randall, who followed his brother to Minnesota, married Clarissa Taylor and their four children were born there.

Hiram Randall born in 1837, the son of Swift and Alsa Randall.

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** Ruth Shaw Worthing, The History of Fond du Lac County, as told by its Place-Names, 1976.
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** Portrait and Biographical Album of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Chicago: Acme Publishing Company, 1889.
** A. T. Glaze, Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond du Lac from Early Times to the Present, Fond du Lac: P. B. Haber Printing Company, 1905.
** Maurice McKenna, ed., History of Fond du Lac County, Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912.
** Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion 1861-1865
** Plat Book of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, C. M. Foote & Co. 1893