Coleman Randolph

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Coleman Randolph

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Coleman RANDOLPH, the lawyer and writer of Morristown, New Jersey, was born at Asbury, New Jersey, April 29, 1861, coming with his parents when a boy of five years old to Morristown, with which city he has ever since been identified. He comes of an ancestry that can boast of more than one distinguished son, his father having been Theodore F. RANDOLPH, who was United States senator from New Jersey, and lived his whole life in Morristown, carrying on a coal business in New York City. He came from Eastern Pennsylvania, where he had been born, and died at Morristown at the age of fifty-seven years in 1883. Theodore F. RANDOLPH married Mary F. COLEMAN, who is now living (1913) in Morristown at the age of eighty-two years. She is a grand-niece of chief Justice Marshall.

Coleman RANDOLPH was first sent to the Morristown schools, being prepared there for Rutgers College. The profession of the law attracted him and he took up its study and was admitted to the bar in 1883. He then opened an office for practice in the Morris County Savings Bank, and for a number of years continued with this work.. He had always shown a decided interest in sport, and about fifteen years ago he retired from the active pursuit of his profession. He had taken up in 1896 the hunting of big game, and this was followed by the writing of various books in which he gave an account of his experiences. The first of these was called "Inter Ocean Hunting Tales" and it met with an unqualified success. He has since been a frequent contributor to the magazines of the out-door life, among his articles being those in the Forest and Stream, and also in Field and Stream. One of these entitled "Turkey Hunting" appeared lately in Field and Stream. One of the books of which he is well-known is called "Ocean to Ocean."

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).