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 493 HAND. RANDALL and was once resident member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Mr. Quint was married in Boston, Janu- ary 31, 1S54, to Rebecca P., daughter of Allen and Eliza (Page) Putnam, of Salem. Of this union were five children : George Putnam (deceased), Clara G. (Wheaton Seminary, 1877), Wilder D. (Dartmouth, 1887), Katharine M. (Wellesley, 1889), and John H. (in Dartmouth). RAND, Arnold Augustus, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth (Arnold) Rand, was born in Boston, March 25, 1837. He is of the eighth generation in descent in Massachusetts from Robert and Alice Rand, who settled in Charles- town, 1635. His education was obtained in the public and private schools of Bos- ton and Dedham, and was supplemented by a course of study abroad. After fitting for college, intending to enter Harvard with the class of 1858, he began his business training in the count- ing-room of William B. Reynolds & Co., commission merchants. Here he passed the successive grades to assistant book- keeper. He then spent nearly two years in study in Europe. On his return he entered the banking house of Blake, Howe & Co., remaining as cashier with them and their successors, Blake Brothers & Co., until the outbreak of the civil war. Before the call for troops he was already an enlisted man of the 4th battalion, Mas- sachusetts volunteer militia. llis first commission, October 30, 1861, was that of 2d lieutenant in the first Massachusetts cavalry. He was soon promoted to a captaincy, and the following year was made assistant adjutant-general with the rank of captain, and ordered to duty in the department of the South. In the fall of 1863 he was recalled by Governor Andrew, assigned as superintendent of recruiting for Suffolk county, and directed to form the 4th regiment, Massachusetts cavalry, to which he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel. Early in 1S64 he took the regiment to the army of the James, having been promoted to colonel, and was in active service till his resignation in 1865. Returning to Boston, after four years of military service, he entered his father's office and began the study of law. In 1874 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, devoting himself to real estate and probate practice. Colonel Rand is an active and promi- nent member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, serving as recorder of the commandery of Massachusetts since 1881. He is a member of Post 144, G. A. R., and has served on the department staff. He has never participated in politics, though in 1884 he was nominated by Mayor Mar- tin a police commissioner of the city of Boston, to succeed the retiring General Nat. Wales. The nomination was con- firmed by the board of aldermen, but ow- ing to a variance between the mayor and the common council, it failed of confir- mation in that branch of the city govern- ment. In 1885 Colonel Rand, in connection with the late N. J. Bradlee, formed the Massachusetts Title Insurance Company, becoming its vice-president, and organiz- ing and conducting its office and business up to the present time. Colonel Rand was married in 1877, to Annie Eliza, daughter of Abner W. and Eliza (Le Barron) Brownell, of New Bed- ford. He resides in Boston. RANDALL, Charles Sturtevant, son of George and Martha (Sturtevant) Randall, was born in New Bedford, Bristol county, February 20, 1824. His educational training was received at Charles W. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain, in the Friends' Academy, New Bedford, the New Bedford high school, in France, and finally under the care of private tu- tors, with whom he fitted for Harvard. He did not matriculate, however, but entered into business. Touched by the "gold fever," in 1849 he went to California, where he worked in the mines in which he was interested. He remained two years ; returned in 185 1, and did a commission business until i860 ; was then made treas- urer of the New Bedford Copper Company — the largest copper manufacturing com- pany in the country — in which position he remained seven years. He resigned in 1867, and devoted his energies until 1872 to the shipping and commission business. He then retired from active business, and traveled abroad with his family for three years. Mr. Randall was a member of the state Senate in 1883 and '84, serving upon the