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== Personal life ==
== 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.<ref>1880 U.S. Census.</ref>
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.<ref>1880 U.S. Census entry for Silas B. Randall.</ref> Sometime after the Civil War, they all moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Silas Herbert attended college there. By 1880, he had married Edith De Golyer and was established as a physician in Cincinnati. They had a daughter Jennie and son De Golyer.<ref>1880 U.S. Census entry for Silas H. Randall.</ref>


Silas H. Randall married Edith De Golyer and they had a daughter Jennie.
Randall died on July 27, 1901 in Wyoming, Ohio, near Cincinnati.<ref>U.S. Find A Grave, 1600s-current for Silas Herbert Randall.</ref>  
Randall died on July 27, 1901 in Wyoming, Ohio, near Cincinnati.<ref>U.S. Find A Grave, 1600s-current for Silas Herbert Randall.</ref>  



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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] Sometime after the Civil War, they all moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Silas Herbert attended college there. By 1880, he had married Edith De Golyer and was established as a physician in Cincinnati. They had a daughter Jennie and son De Golyer.[3]

Randall died on July 27, 1901 in Wyoming, Ohio, near Cincinnati.[4]

Inventions

His inventions included a vise, harness maker's press, leather punching machine, leather creasing machine, bracket, crupper former, collar-stuffer, and stitching horse.[5]

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 entry for Silas B. Randall.
  3. 1880 U.S. Census entry for Silas H. Randall.
  4. U.S. Find A Grave, 1600s-current for Silas Herbert Randall.
  5. Google Patents.