Biographical data on B. H. Randall and the Randall family, 1854-1902.

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Biographical data on B. H. Randall and the Randall family, 1854-1902.

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The materials include a marriage announcement, Randall to Wilhelmina H. Lange (1854) and four letters: Wilhelmina to Randall (1863), C. R. Davis to Randall (1899), concerning land in St. Peter, and Randall to the Minnesota Historical Society (1894, 1902). The latter detail his experiences at Fort Snelling and Fort Ridgely, as St. Peter mayor and territorial and state legislator, and during the Dakota Conflict. He also describes visiting Washington, D.C. immediately following President Lincoln's assassination and accompanying Robert T. Lincoln while on his way to Springfield for the funeral. There is also an 1874 notation cut from a diagram of government buildings at Fort Ridgely and a typescript of Randall's "Fort Ridgely and Its Defense," a description of events during 1862 (ca. 1892).

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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