Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Harrison RANDOLPH
RANDOLPH, Harrison, educator, was born in New Orleans, La., Dec. 8, 1871; son of John Field and Virginia Dashiell (Bayard) Randolph; grandson of Edward and Margaret (Turnbull) Randolph of Petersburg, Va., and of Samuel John and Jane Winder (Dahsiell) Bayard, and a descendant of William Randolph of Turkey Island, Virginia (born in Warwickshire, England, and came to America, arriving at Jamestown, Va., in 1674); and of Peter Bayard of Bohemia Manor, Cecil county, Maryland; son of Samuel and Anna (Stuyvesant) Bayard, born in Holland, who came to New York with his uncle, Peter Stuyvesant, in 1647. He was graduated from the University of Virginia, A.B., A.M., 1892; was instructor of mathematics in the university, 1890-95; professor of mathematics in the University of Arkansas, 1895-97, and in 1897 was elected president of the College of Charleston, which position he still held in 1903. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va., in 1899.
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