Silas Randall

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Vice - illustration from patent application, 1890

Silas Herbert Randall was a Cincinnati inventor who corresponded with Platonist Thomas Moore Johnson.[1]

Personal life

Randall was born on Jul 31, 1852 in Mystic, Connecticut to Silas Burrows Randall and his wife Emily Doane Randall. The family included another son, James D. Randall and daughters Helen and Emily.[2]

Silas H. Randall married Edith De Golyer and they had a daughter Jennie. Randall died on July 27, 1901 in Wyoming, Ohio, near Cincinnati.[3]

Inventions

His inventions included a vise, harness maker's press, leather punching machine, leather creasing machine, bracket, crupper former, collar-stuffer, and stitching horse.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Patrick D. Bowen and K. Paul Johnson, eds. Letters to the Sage: Selected Correspondence of Thomas Moore Johnson Volume One: The Esotericists. Forest Grove, OR: The Typhon Press, 2016.
  2. ↑ 1880 U.S. Census.
  3. ↑ U.S. Find A Grave, 1600s-current for Silas Herbert Randall.
  4. ↑ Google Patents.
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