HISTORY OF EARLY CHICAGO
MODERN CHICAGO AND ITS SETTLEMENT
EARLY CHICAGO, AND THE NORTHWEST BY ALBERT D. HAGER

page 535 - GEORGE HENRY RANDELL, physician, was born in 1852 in Jersey Island, England, whence his widowed mother immigrated to the United States in 1854, settling for a time in Chicago. At an early age he completed a high-school course, when a period was put to his school days by his family moving on a farm. Here he remained occupied with the usual duties of a farm boy until his eighteenth year, when he left home and engaged in mercantile business. During all this time he was eager for knowledge, and by applying his leisure hours to study, with the help of such private instructors as he could command, he added very materially to his school acquirements. The study of anatomy and physiology turned his mind in the direction of the medical profession. Accordingly, he placed himself in a physician's office as a student, and when properly prepared entered the department of medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan, whence he graduated in 1878. Having become assistant to the professor of surgery, he remained at the university several months, and then settled in the practice of his profession in Leavenworth County, Kan., remaining three years, and being while there an active member of the Kansas State Medical Society. In 1881 Dr. Randell removed to Chicago, where he soon became well known among the profession, who accorded him a prominent place in their ranks. In 1883 he was sent to Cleveland as a delegate from the Chicago Medical Society to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association. He is physician to Cook County Hospital, department of obstetrics and diseases of women, and has laid the foundation of an extensive private practice. In 1880 Dr. Randell was married to Emma, daughter of the late Elias Jones, M. D., of Indiana, by whom he has had two children--Emma Maud` in 1881, and George Cecil, in 1883. Dr. and Mrs. Randell are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Birthdate - 1920 Census shows George’s age as 67 making his birthdate 1853. It also has him immigrating to the United States at age 2 (1855)

1880 Census has George Randall in Leavenworth Kansas - single.

in 1881 they are living in Easton Kansas, Leavenworth County

George C. and Frank M. are both born in Illinois, 1883 and 1887

They move to Seattle in 1890.

In 1890, Dr. Georg H. Randell and his wife Emma and their four children homesteaded on Madrona's highest point, near the present-day (2000) 34th Avenue and Union Street junction. The Randell Additions later became the core of Madrona hill properties. Their barn was used as the first neighborhood public school.23

Records show their youngest son Ralph and daughter Laura were born in Washington State in 1890 and 189124

2414 Jackson Street Seattle WA
In Seattle 1906-1911

Seattle Phonebook abt 1907 Randell, George H, Physician and Surgeon, 514 Pioneer Bldg, h 2414 Jackson (also uses 5114 address for Real Estate he is selling throughout the city)

Earlier Seattle Phonebook: Randell George H, Real Estate, 221 Seattle Blk, res Drexel s w cor Division

1910 Census shows them at 2414 and all four children still residing at home. George C is now 27 and Frank M. is 23. The employment for both is real estate broker. In GWI Jones’s journal George Randell is building homes on Queen Anne Hill in 1910.

Moved to Santa Ana, Orange County Calif. some time before 1920
1920 Census in Calif.

Orange Daily News - August 21, 1930
Orange Couple In Golden Anniversary

A half century of happy married life was happily celebrated today by Dr. and Mrs. George H. Randell, who own a fine 45-acre orange grove on the old county park road which has been their home for the past ten years.

The venerable couple, both of whom are enjoying the best of health, serveral of their children and a group of former Washington friends, now residing at Redondo, appropriately celebrated the important occasion today with a picnic dinner in the cool shade of the giant live oak trees at the Orange county park.

Participating in the golden wedding celbration today were the bride and groom of fifty years, a daughter and two sons, Miss Laura Randell, a teacher in the Fairfax high school. Los Angeles; George C. Randell, who is employed in the Los Angeles county assessor’s office, and Frank Randell, a Long Beach merchant. (Another son, Ralph R. Randell, a civil engineer who is in government service at Washington D. C., was unable to be present.)

Redondo friends present included Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Looney and family, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Shafer and three children and Mr. and Mrs. George Case.

Dr. and Mrs. Randell were wed at Wolf Lake, Indiana fifty years ago. They resided in Seattle, Wash., for thirty years before coming to Orange ten years ago when Dr. Randell decided to retire from the practice of medicine and enjoy the mild climate and many beauties of this section of Southern California.