HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


dolphs came originally from England, locating first in Virginia, in which
state
no name has been held in higher esteem for generations back. Members of the
family drifted to New York and from there to New Jersey and in the latter
state the grandfather of Senator Randolph, Caleb Frederick Randolph, was
born. He was the youngest of a large family, two of whom were soldiers of
the War of 18I2. The grandfather was the pioneer of the family in Wisconsin.
In his early married life he ran a canal boat on the Erie canal, making his
home
at Rochester, New York, where his son Samuel was born, but in the early '40s
he brought his family to Manitowoc. At a later date he took up his residence
in
Chicago, and being a sailor as well as a cooper, he was more or less in both
cities
as his business demanded. His son Samuel followed largely in his footsteps
and succeeded to the cooperage business which his father had established,
it
being one of the first of its kind at Manitowoc. During the Civil war he
was
a soldier in the Union navy but survived the many dangers thus incurred and
returned safely to his home. He was an ardent democrat in his political senti-
ments. He married Margaret Marley, who was born in Ireland and was a
faithful member of the Roman Catholic church. Eight children were born to
them, seven sons and one daughter, three members of the family now being
deceased.
Samuel William Randolph was reared at Manitowoc and obtained his educa-
tion in the public schools. For many years he was in the fishing business
and at
present is the representative of the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company
and
the Union Steamboat Line, doing all the unloading and loading of freight
for
both boats and railroads at Manitowoc, giving employment to from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty men.
Senator Randolph was married June I4, 1905, to Miss Ethel D. Bown, of
New Orleans, Louisiana, and they have three children: Samuel W., Jr., Flor-
ence and Frederick Bown. Mrs. Randolph is a member of the Presbyterian
church.
Mr. Randolph is identified fraternally with the Royal League and the Eagles.
He has long been actively interested in politics, being a representative
demo-
crat, and served as harbor master prior to I902, when he was elected a member
of the Wisconsin state senate, and approval has been shown of his work as
a
statesman by his reelection. While at Madison he has many times demonstrated
his ability and public spirit, and one of the measures that he was instrumental
in having made a law is the two-cent mile rate. When first elected he was
the
youngest member in the Wisconsin senate and he is the only member ever elected
from the fifteenth district for three consecutive terms of four years each.
EMIL VETTING.
Emil Vetting, chairman of the town board of Manitowoc Rapids, and
one of his community's leading agriculturists, is a native of the city of
Mani-
towoc, and was born February i6, i864, a son of Louis and Julia (Reich) Vet-
ting. Louis Vetting was born mi i830, in Germany, and came to the United
States at the age of eighteen years with his brother, Frederick, securing
employ-


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