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

Joseph F. RANDOLPH was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 4, 1843. He was the son of Judge Joseph F. RANDOLPH, of the Supreme Court, whose forefathers came from England in 1629 and settled in New Jersey in 1669. On his mother’s side Mr. RANDOLPH;s great-great-grandfather, Judge Daniel COOPER, lived for 100 years in Long Hill and died there in 1795. His great-great-great-grandfather, Richard OLDFIELD, was the father of Mrs. Timothy JOHNES, of Morristown.

Mr. RANDOLPH graduated at Yale College in 1862, and afterwards studied at the Columbia Law School, and in Berlin, Heidelberg, Gottingen and Paris. In 1866 he was admitted to the New York bar and in 1867 to the New Jersey bar. He was afterwards appointed by the Chancellor special master and advisory master in the court of Chancery. He practiced law in Jersey City from April 1868, until his retirement from active practice forty years later – at first with his father and Judge Bennington F. RANDOLPH, and afterward in the firms of RANDOLPH & TALCOTT and of RANDOLPH, CONDICT & BLACK. For many years he had a consulting office in New York City. He is the author of a "Treatise on Commercial Paper" (2 editions), "Succession Law in New Jersey" and "Supplement" (1905 and 1909), "New Jersey Inheritance and Transfer Tax (1913), "The Lord’s Death" (1909), and "The Law of Faith – with a Lawyer’s Notes on the Written Law" (Putnam 1914). He has also alone or with others edited "Jarman on Wills" and "Williams on Executors" and the volume on "Commercial Paper" in the "Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure".

He was married in October, 1872, to Harriet W. TALCOTT, of Jersey City. She died in March, 1891, leaving no children. Mr. RANDOLPH has lived in Morristown since 1877. He is a manager of the American Bible Society and an elder in the South Street Presbyterian Church, and was for many years a director of the Memorial Hospital and of the Children’s Home in Parsippany, and the Bloomfield Theological Seminary.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)

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