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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John T. RANDALL, farming, Sec. 9; P. O. Channahon; the subject of this sketch was born in 
Orleans Co., Vt., Aug. 2, 1815. He married Miss B. S. RUSSELL Sept. 4, 1836; she was born 
in Wilbraham, Mass., April 24,1815; they had six children, five living, viz., Albert T., 
Oscar T., Gershom A., Laura A. and Mary; Joseph R. died Jan 21, 1872. He lived in Vermont 
ten years, when his parents moved to Western New York, where he lived until 1835; he then 
went to Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, where he was married, and lived there until 1839, when he 
returned to his old home in New York, and lived there until 1849, when he came to Will 
Co., IL, and settled in Troy Twp, and lived there five years, when he came to his present 
place. Three of his sons were in the army for the greater part of the war. He has been 
Supervisor of this and Troy Twp., and other offices connected with the school and road. 
He started in poor circumstances, and now owns 271 acres in this township.