Sacramento County
Biographies
ALFRED RANDOLPH
ALFRED RANDOLPH, rancher, Dry
Creek Township,
was born July 15, 1831, in McLean County, Illinois,
son of Gardner and Elizabeth (Stringfield)
Randolph. His father, a native of Virginia, emigrated in an early day to Tennessee
and thence to Alabama, and from there to Illinois,
settling in 1860 at a point he named Randolph Grove. After ward he lived
in Riley County, Kansas, and about 1871 came to California
and died at the residence of his son Alfred, in 1873 at the age of seventy-one
years. He was a man of noble principles and a sympathetic
Christian. His wife is now deceased. In their family were seven sons
and six daughters, and all the children except two of the daughters came to California. Alfred
Randolph was raised on a farm in his native State, and in 1850, when he was but
nineteen years of age, he crossed the plains to this State with ox teams, being
about four months on the way, and the journey was on the whole quite enjoyable. Stopping at Hangtown,
he at once began mining and prosecuted that line of business for eight years
most of the time in the same district, and with moderate success. In 1858
he came to this county, locating upon his present farm of 160 acres at that
time, and there he has ever since remained. This ranch he has enlarged by
purchasing additions until he now has 250 acres. It is twenty-two miles
from Sacramento. He raises,
hay, grain and livestock. He was married in June, 1877, to Miss Emma, daughter
of William J. McFadden, and a native of Coshocton County,
Ohio. They have three children: Harry
Marvin, Estella B. and Clinton A. Mr. Randolph is
a member of the A. O. U. W., of Galt, and in his political principles in (sic)
a Republican.
Transcribed 9-6-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Page 631.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.