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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 Eastman’s 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.

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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.

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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.

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Ellsworth H. and daughter Alice Marie

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Edna Raynor, Gen. 8

Edna’s Class Picture 1892Edna is 7th from your left, first row.

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Evelyn Genevieve (Randall) Lanyon, Gen. 9

Genevieve is a co-author of A Randall Family of Long Island, New York.

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Henry Martyn Randall, Gen.7

From the Port Jefferson Echo December 18, 1924

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Selah Edwin Randall, Gen. 7

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Jerome Derwallis, Gen. 10

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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.

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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 ship’s 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 Master’s 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.

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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 Seamen’s 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. Randall’s 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.

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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

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Roosevelt and his sons

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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.

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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

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subject for artists throughout the years.

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John Orlando Roe, Gen. 7

Father of Aesthetic Rhinoplasty

In the late 1800’s 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.

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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 patient’s 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.

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Hazel Clarissa Randall, Gen. 8

Hazel was a dedicated genealogist. She did the lion’s share of the research for “A Randall Family of Long Island, New York”.

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Credits

Music: “Bink’s Waltz” by Scott Joplinperformed by Knocky Parker

Biographical Input: “A Randall Family of Long Island, NY”by Lanyon and WellsRandall Assn., LI Branch, Inc.

Photo Source: Various Genealogy websites

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