“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


S. E. RANDALL, dealer in agricultural implements; was born in 
Rensselaer Co., N.Y., March 10, 1834; on the 1st of June following he 
came to Watertown with his parents.  His father, Benjamin Randall, 
deceased, was a farmer in Jefferson Co. two years, when he removed to 
Lebanon, Dodge Co., where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for 
twenty-five years, the subject of this sketch now owning the family 
homestead; he was a farmer until 21 years of age, though at the age of 19 
years he became attached to the manufacturing implement business of F. 
H. Manny, of Rockford, with whom he remained nine years, afterward 
representing other reaper and mower firms until thirteen years ago, when 
he opened a general agricultural depot at Watertown, at which point he 
represents D. S. Morgan & Co., for the east half of Wisconsin, in the sale 
of their goods, making the Triumph Reaper and Seymour Mower 
specialties.  In November, 1866, he married Martha A., the daughter of 
Abraham Kern, one of the early settlers of Ashippun, Dodge Co., this 
State; she was born in South Bend, Ind.; they have one child – Mable C., 
born April 10, 1869.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)