Sacramento County Biographies
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 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 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