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Eugene Wilson and Eudora Randall, Gen. 8 Eugen Wilson Randall was
born in Winona, MN. He graduated from Winona State Normal School in
1879, taught in district schools for four years, was principal of
Morris High School from 1891 through 1895 Slide 6 NextPrev. He was
the Secretary of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society from 1895
through 1907, Dean and Director of the Department of Agriculture of
the University of Minnesota in 1907 and 1908. He was also President
of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company in St. Paul from
1908 through 1910. He and is wife, Eudora Adelia Stone lived in St.
Paul. Slide 7 NextPrev. Slide 8 NextPrev. Clarence Brewster
Randall, Gen. 9 Slide 9 NextPrev. Slide 10 NextPrev. Howard Vernon
Tayler, Gen. 11 Howard is the creator of the award winning webcom,
Schlock Mercenary. Slide 11 NextPrev. Slide 12 NextPrev. Charles
Jeffrey Randall driving his horse, Ninety under the walnut trees in
front of his home in Ridge. Charles Jeffrey Randall, Gen. 7 Slide
13 NextPrev. Slide 14 NextPrev. Joseph Horace Randall, Gen. 7 The
entire life of Joseph H. Randall was passed in ceaseless activity.
His career was an example of industry, perseverance and good
management. His father, Horace. G. Randall spent his entire life in
the town of Brookhaven and followed the occupation of merchant and
farmer. He was a public spirited and worthy citizen. Joseph H.
Randall took a course in Eastmans Business College. Most of his
life was spent at the Middle Island home, although he was at sea
for about 2 years. After the death of his father, he assumed
control of the mercantile business, which prospered under his able
management. Slide 15 NextPrev. He carried a complete stock of goods
suitable to the section and, by his courteous and agreeable manner,
gained a large and constantly increasing patronage. For many years,
Mr. Randall was a member of the Presbyterian Church and much of the
time was an elder there. In politics, he was with the Republican
party and at all times advocated its men and measures. For some
time, he served his fellow citizens faithfully as Assessor and was
Justice of the Peace of the village for at least 7 years. Slide 16
NextPrev. Slide 17 NextPrev. Edna Raynor, Gen. 8 Ednas Class
Picture 1892 Edna is 7 th from your left, first row. Edna Slide 18
NextPrev. Slide 19 NextPrev. The original Samuel W. Randall
Homestead in Yaphank. George E. Randall is shown with his wife,
Sarah, their baby Ellsworth H. and daughter Alice Marie. Couple
unknown. Slide 20 NextPrev. George Elbert Randall, his wife, Sarah,
baby Ellsworth H. and daughter Alice Marie Slide 21 NextPrev. Slide
22 NextPrev. Evelyn Genevieve (Randall) Lanyon, Gen. 9 Genevieve is
a co-author of A Randall Family of Long Island, New York. Slide 23
NextPrev. Slide 24 NextPrev. Slide 25 NextPrev. Capt. William
Morehouse and Louise H. Randall, Gen. 7 Louise H. Randall who was
the wife of Capt. William M. Randall wrote a book entitled The Fate
of the Schooner Louise H. Randall, published in Nov. 1904 in
Boston, MA. This schooner was an 11 year old ship from Providence,
RI that was wrecked off the Long Island coast. The ships captain
was Jack Penney and his wife, Ethel Penney was aboard. She later
became Mrs. Guy Fenner of Center Moriches, LI. Her father was in
charge of the Great South Beach Life Saving Station. The Penney
family was quartered at the station, and the families of his crew
lived in small cottages nearby. Crewmen included Frank Howell and
Joshua Ryder of Moriches, Benjamin Miller, John Rose and Harvey
Corwin of Brookhaven. The wreck occurred during one of the worst
storms these people had ever experienced. Usually a ship grounded
close to shore drew the women and children who watched the life
savers work. On that occasion, Capt. Penney sent word back that no
one would be allowed on the beach. The ocean was breaking very high
and conditions were dangerous for everyone. Slide 26 NextPrev. It
was a Merritt Salvage Co. vessel that finally rescued those aboard
the ship, and also took on Capt. Penney and those who had managed
to take a dory through the breakers, only to have it so battered
that they could not keep it afloat. The dory was also taken aboard.
One of the reasons the Life Savers had kept trying so desperately
to reach the doomed four-masted schooner was that they had seen a
woman wrapped in sails and lashed to a mast. They did not then know
that she was Louise Randall, and that a large crate had fallen on
her toe, which afterwards had to be amputated. The rescue vessel
left t he scene and the schooner proceeded to break up. Soon the
families of the Life Savers began to arrive at the beach for their
men folk. The beach was littered with both ice and wreckage, swept
back and forth by the high seas. Ethel Penney salvaged a piano
stool that had washed up on the dunes, but nobody could walk down
on the beach. Slide 27 NextPrev. There was great relief when word
was received the next day that the Life Savers were safe in Staten
Island. Capt. Penney had become in touch with a close friend,
Dewitt Havens, Sr. of Brooklyn, and obtained money for tickets to
get home on the Long Island Railroad. Captain William Randall and
Captain Penney became very good friends as a result of their mutual
experience and Captain Randall afterwards visited the Penneys
several times. This explains how Ethel Penney Fenner had the
portraits of the Randalls, taken in the 1890s by Boston
photographer Elmer Chickering. Slide 28 NextPrev. Slide 29
NextPrev. Henry Martyn Randall, Gen.7 From the Port Jefferson Echo
December 18, 1924 Slide 30 NextPrev. Slide 31 NextPrev. Slide 32
NextPrev. Selah Edwin Randall, Gen. 7 Slide 33 NextPrev. Slide 34
NextPrev. Jerome Derwallis, Gen. 10 Slide 35 NextPrev. Slide 36
NextPrev. Rear Admiral Albert B. Randall, U.S.N.R. By Thomas R.
Raves A native son of Brookhaven town who stood at the top of the
United States Merchant Marine, was Rear Admiral Albert B. Randall,
U.S.N.R., Commandant of the US Maritime Service and retired
Commodore of the Fleet of the United States Lines. His death in
November 1945 at the age of 66 brought to an end the life of this
truly great Long Islander who descended from Stephen Randall, one
of the first settlers of Middle Island. He was born on 10 Sept.,
1879 in Brookhaven. His father was William F. Randall, a native of
Middle Island and his mother was Sarah E. Smith, a native of
Brookhaven. They moved to Bridgeport soon after the birth of their
son, and her, Albert received his education and later at Vermont
Academy. Slide 37 NextPrev. When he was 17, Albert Randall enlisted
as an ordinary seaman on the bark, Obed Baxter, whose skipper was a
cousin of Albert. He saw a considerable amount of service in the
next few years in Asiatic waters and served on the army transports,
Burnside, the Sedgwick and Kilpatrick as ships officer, to and from
the Philippines and the West Indies. In 1901 he joined the Navy
Auxiliary Service and was assigned as third officer on the Ajax. He
was promoted several times to more responsible posts and received
his Masters license in 1905 and his first command in 1907. During
the First World War, Capt. Randall distinguished himself in the
convoy activities, and among his decorations was the Legion of
Honor awarded by France. In 1921 he became master of the S.S.
American and later in the same year took command of the S.S. George
Washington, and during the next 15 years, Capt. Randall commanded
many of the finest luxury liners, including the Republic, the
Manhattan and the famous Leviathan. He was finally promoted to
Commodore of the fleet abord the flagship Manhattan. Slide 38
NextPrev. Although he had served in the Merchant Fleet, he had
remained in the Naval Reserve, and was ranking commander at the
time of his retirement in 1939. His retirement was brief, however,
and with the beginning of the activities leading up to the Second
World War, he was called to active service and appointed Rear
Admiral and assigned to the position of executive officer of the
Seamens Service for the Port of New York. In April 1942, he was
promoted to Commandant of the United States Maritime Service with
headquarters in Washington. Among the many rescues performed during
Capt. Randalls long career was one connected with the French
schooner Rhein de Mers off Newfoundland in 1922. Rudder and sails
gone, and her skipper lost overboard, she was foundering when the
President Fillmore under command of Capt. Randall, came upon her.
With mountainous seas raging and under the most difficult
conditions, every surviving member of her crew was taken off. Slide
39 NextPrev. His acts of heroism and his brilliant career as
commander of great American ships prompted the President of the
United States to send him the following letter upon his retirement
in 1939. My Dear Captain Randall; I take the occasion of your
retirement to congratulate you on a long and distinguished career.
Your years of service have been marked by many exploits requiring
the highest qualities of seamanship and command. As Commodore of
the United States Lines, you commanded the greatest vessels in the
American Merchant Marine, and proved yourself worthy in all
respects of the prominent position that you held. Your career may
well be the inspiration of American youth as we enter into a new
phase and era of expansion. Your services with the armed forces of
the United States as well as with the Merchant Marines illustrate
the interdependence of the navy and the merchant marine for the
eventual well being of our country Very sincerely yours, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt President of the United States Slide 40 NextPrev.
Albert Borland Randall with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his sons
Slide 41 NextPrev. Rear Admiral Albert B. Randall, U.S.N.R. Slide
42 NextPrev. Slide 43 NextPrev. Slide 44 NextPrev. Lewis Merlin
Yeager, Gen. 10 Those of you familiar with the east end of Long
Island, know of the duck farming industry that flourished there.
And, of course, you must know of the Big Duck building, originally
built in Riverhead, but eventually winding up on Rt. 24 between
Flanders and Southampton after it was purchased by Suffolk County.
The Big Duck was built by Merlin Yeager in partnership with Martin
Maurer. Slide 45 NextPrev. Slide 46 NextPrev. Slide 47 NextPrev.
Forrest Bradley Randall. Gen.8 Forrest Bradley Randall, left of
center, of Mt. Sinai, loding cordwood for the sloop Emma Southard
at Miller Place Beach in 1890 Slide 48 NextPrev. Forrest Bradley
Randall Slide 49 NextPrev. His dairy farm in Mt. Sinai, 1938 Slide
50 NextPrev. The pastoral setting of the farm was a favorite
subject for artists throughout the years. 1947 1950 1970 Slide 51
NextPrev. Slide 52 NextPrev. John Orlando Roe, Gen. 7 Father of
Aesthetic Rhinoplasty In the late 1800s when the first aesthetic
surgeons began to practice what we recognize today as plastic
surgery, they had to overcome the stigma of working with patients
recognizably suffering from stigmatizing diseases. Their procedures
were seen as radical because they attempted to alter signs that
were unmistakably supposed to mark the immoral, unclean and
polluted. They were often condemned by the more traditional medical
establishment. Slide 53 NextPrev. To defend themselves against the
charge of violating the Hippocratic Oath by operating on healthy
patients, surgeons adopted the approach that they were altering the
body to change the psyche. In 1887, John Orlando Roe in Rochester,
NY, developed a procedure to alter the shape of the pug nose. Roe
did not claim only to cure the pug nose, he claimed also to be
curing the patients unhappiness. To quote Dr. Roe: We are able to
relieve patients of a condition which would remain a lifelong mark
of disfigurement, constantly observed, forming a never ceasing
source of embarrassment and mental distress to themselves,
amounting, in many cases, to a positive torture, as well as often
causing them to be objects of greater or lesser aversion to others.
John Orlando Roe is generally credited as being the father of
aesthetic surgery. Slide 54 NextPrev. Slide 55 NextPrev. Hazel
Clarissa Randall, Gen. 8 Slide 56 ExitPrev. Credits Music:Binks
Waltz by Scott Joplin performed by Knocky Parker Biographical
Input:A Randall Family of Long Island, NY by Lanyon and Wells
Randall Assn., LI Branch, Inc. Photo Source:Various Genealogy
websites
