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CORYDON C. RANDALL, M. D.
CORYDON C. RANDALL, M. D., a well known and highly esteemed resident of Drayton Plains, Waterford township, Oakland County, and also of Detroit, was born July 30, 1841, at Hamilton, Canada, and is a son of James J. Randall, a native of the State of New York, of English parentage.
James J. Randall resided in Canada for a number of years and was at one time associated with Dr. Carnot in a patent medicine business, but when his son Corydon C. was 14 years old he removed to Detroit and for a number of years was engaged there in a photograph business.
Dr. Randall was educated very thoroughly, being a son of cultured, literary parents. He became associated with his father in the photograph business at Detroit, where he built up a reputation in that line second to none in the State. About 1884 he purchased at Drayton Plains his present beautiful home, consisting of a handsome residence, fitted up with all the appurtenances dear to a man of education and culture, with two acres of surrounding land, and for some years the family spent their summers on this spot. During late years, however, it has been the home throughout the year. Dr. Randall is an excellent physician, but from choice is something of a recluse, delighting in the pleasure of his own fireside and the treasures of his fine library. Retiring as he is, he is known far and wide for his charity and benevolence and is most sincerely esteemed by all who are permitted to enjoy a close acquaintance. He has ever been ready to assist public spirited movements in Waterford township, but his generosity has been mainly extended, in a quiet and unassuming way, to those who have been unfortunate in the battle of life.
Dr. Randall was married first to Ella Rose, who was a daughter of Dr. Rose, of Detroit; she died without issue. On May 9, 1874, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Anna S. Christian Leggett, who was born at Roslyn, Long Island, and is a daughter of the late Augustus W. and Elsie S. (Seaman) Christian, the former of whom was a local poet and literary character of some celebrity and so intimate a friend of his neighbor, William Cullen Bryant, that they were denominated brothers. Mrs. Randall, with her culture and accomplishments, has been a most congenial companion for one of Dr. Randall's temperament and their home is pervaded by an atmosphere of intellectual refinement. By her first marriage, Mrs. Randall has one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Hitchcock, a literary woman of Detroit. The five children born to he second marriage are: Huntley, B. S., is a mining engineer, located at Monterey, Mexico; Ferris Seaman, who is also located in Mexico; Chandler C., a traveling man who is married and settled in Detroit; and Mortimer and Eloise, who remain at home.
27 March 2001
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Subject: The Randall family for the Quarterly of the DSGR.
Hi Pat:
Please feel free to edit. There are a couple dates unavailable, here and there, and this work is on-going. I hope my family, who are getting copies of this, will look it over and send me any items they may have that I do not. I will now start on the Stewarts and encourage the Leggett genealogist here in Michigan to do one of these "And they came to Michigan" for the Leggett family.
James Janeway Randall was born in Hartford, CT. 3 September 1815, the son of Elijah Randall and Clarissa Buckland. He died in Detroit 19 May 1875 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. He married Caroline Matilda Burnham in East Hartford, CT on 7 November 1833. She died 28 February 1893 in Detroit and also is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Her birth and marriage are noted in the Burnham genealogy of the East Hartford Burnhams. The Randalls came to Michigan in 1834, then moved to Hamilton, Ontario in 1836. Living in Hamilton and Paris, James was a tin artist and painter and in Paris built a furniture factory alongside the Grand River. The family returned to Detroit to stay in 1856 with six children born in Ontario and an adopted niece.
The adopted daughter, Elizabeth Burnham Randall, was the daughter of Caroline's older brother, William Burnham, of East Hartford, CT. Born in 1828 in NY, she died 22 April 1913 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Her husband, Clark Stratton, the son of Alvah Stratton and Loantha Sherman of Elmore, VT., was a mining engineer in Marquette, MI. The place and date of death is unknown to me.
Corodon/Corydon Randall, the first son of James and Caroline, was born in Hamilton, ONT 30 July 1841. He was one of Detroit's first photographers, beginning his work as a teenager in 1856. He later donated some 75,000 prints and negatives of early Detroit and its people and visitors to Mr. Burton, who put them in his collection now housed in the Detroit Public Library. Corydon died 31 August 1908 and is buried in the family plot in Elmwood Cemetery. His first wife, Bella C. Rose, daughter of Dr. Levi C. and Cerillia Rose of Detroit, died young 8 February 1866. She is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. They had been married 12 October 1864. Corydon secondly married Anna Seaman Leggett Christian, former wife of William Henry Christian, from whom she was divorced. Corydon and Anna were married 9 May 1874. Anna was the daughter of Augustus Wright Leggett and Eliza Seaman and was born 18 April 1847 in Roslyn, L.I., NY. She died 5 December 1934 in Chicago and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Pontiac, MI.
The Hon. James Andrus Randall was born in Paris, ONT 15 December 1845 and died in Detroit 29 January 1911. He is buried with his wife, Mary Amelia Dumond, in Elmwood Cemetery. They were married at Grace Episcopal Church, Detroit.
James served in the Michigan Legislature; as a Park Commissioner in Detroit, he laid out the boulevard system and together with Eliza Seaman Leggett and others, helped form Belle Isle as a park. For a time he was in Buffalo, where, according to family legend, turned down Tammany Hall as a presidential candidate on the Democratic slate. Instead he used his newspaper and influence to promote the later president William McKinney (a wise move on his part, as it turned out for James). Tragedy marked the family life when their son, Thomas Davey Randall, having just passed the bar, drowned 30 November 1896, while duck hunting on Lake Erie.
Marion Warren Randall was born in Paris, ONT. 20 August 1847. She married Edward W. Voigt, as his second wife, and died 16 December 1911. She is buried in Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit. Edward was the owner of the Voigt Brewery; their farm had over 1000 feet of frontage on Woodward Ave.
Caroline Matilda Randall was born 10 June 1850 in Hamilton, ONT. She died 22 January 1921 in Quincy, MA. She is buried in Mount Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy alongside her husband, James. H. Lewis.
Anna Randall, born 11 April 1854 in Paris, ONT., died 24 March 1913 in Detroit and is buried next to her husband, Harold Victor Albertus. Harold died soon after on 2 September 1913.
Helen Mar Randall, born in 1855 in Hamilton, ONT., died at 33 years old on 9 July 1888. She is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. She was married to Alfred Theodore Eddy. She is noted in the Eddy genealogies simply as "Helen Mar."
Edwin Forrest Randall, born in 1856 in Paris, ONT., died at 16 on 19 May 1872. He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. There is no Michigan death record for him, and he may have died while in Hamilton, ONT.
Note: A biography from the Waterford Township Public Library (Michigan) Websi
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