History of Michigan, / by Charles Moore. [Vol. 3]

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HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

mercial lines, and became well known as a traveling man for a large
mercantile firm of Detroit. He died in 1893, when still in the prime of
life, being but forty-six years old. Mr. Randall married Miss Emma E.
Anscomb, who still survives him at the age of sixty-eight years, and is
making her home with her only son, the other child being Mrs. Chauncey
Hill, a resident of Big Beaver, Michigan.
Herbert E. Randall's boyhood was spent in Detroit, in which city he
attended the public and high schools. He was seventeen years of age
at the time of his father's death, and at that time he faced the world on
his own account, securing a position as a clerk in a tea and coffee store
in Detroit. He subsequently left this employment to accept a position in
the clerical department of the Methodist Book Concern, at Detroit, where
he remained six months, and then entered the Detroit College of Medicine
to begin his professional studies. He was graduated from that institution
with his degree in I897, and during that period had become assistant to
Dr. H. O. Walker of Detroit. Following his graduation, Doctor Randall
was house surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital and then embarked in practice
at Dryden, where he remained two and one-half years, and during his
stay there was appointed surgeon in the United States Philippine service.
From Dryden Doctor Randall removed to Lapeer, where he continued
in practice for nine years. Following this he came to Flint, and here has
continued in the enjoyment of an excellent practice, limited entirely to
surgery. He maintains offices at 302-3 F. P. Smith building, where every
convenience is supplied for the comfort of his patients. A man of high
reputation in his calling, he has been honored by his fellow-practitioners
by his election to the vice presidency of the Michigan State Medical
Society, and was the secretary of the Lapeer County Medical Society, a
position which he has held for eight years, and he also is a member of the
American Medical Association. He is a member of the advisory board of
Hurley Hospital, and consulting surgeon for the Michigan Home for the
Feeble Minded, and in every capacity has shown his efficiency and fidelity
to the performance of duty. Fraternally, Doctor Randall is a Mason of
the thirty-second degree, a Shriner, and a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. In his political views he takes an independent stand.
Doctor Randall was married at Dryden, Michigan, in May, I898, to
Miss Louise Sarah Jordan, of Stillwater, Minnesota, daughter of Oliver
Jordan, deceased. They have had no children.
ANDREW CLARK. The distinction of being one of the oldest mason
contractors in the city of Detroit belongs to Andrew Clark. His business
associates and his patrons have many other reasons to esteem him, since
he has been not only engaged in business for many years, but his time
has been filled with an exceptional service and a progressive business
success. His independent connection with the building interests of Detroit covers a period of more than a quarter of a century and it is more
than forty years since he first came as a poor young Scotchman to
Detroit.
Andrew Clark was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 21,
I848. He is the only representative of his immediate family in America.
His parents, Alexander and Ami (Robertson) Clark, as well as two sons
and two daughters, all stayed in the old country. It was in his native
locality in the land of hills and heather that Andrew Clark grew up, acquired a common school training, and followed the routine work of the
farm, but without advancing his material prosperity in any conspicuous
degree, up to I873. That year marked his emigration to the United
States, and he made the journey alone and came direct to New York.