. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . pages of Dr. Rands material. He also,wrote Legends of the Micmaes (New York. 1MI4>. RANI), Theodore Harding. Canadian educa-tor, b. in Cornwallis. Nova Scotia, in 1835. Hisfather was first cousin to Dr. Silas T. Rand. Theson was graduated at Acadia college in 1860. andappointed the same year to the chair of classics atthe Provincial normal school, Truro, N. S. lietravelled in Great Britain and the United State-to make a special study of common-school educa-tion, and has lectured and written on the isiil lie became superintendent o
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . pages of Dr. Rands material. He also,wrote Legends of the Micmaes (New York. 1MI4>. RANI), Theodore Harding. Canadian educa-tor, b. in Cornwallis. Nova Scotia, in 1835. Hisfather was first cousin to Dr. Silas T. Rand. Theson was graduated at Acadia college in 1860. andappointed the same year to the chair of classics atthe Provincial normal school, Truro, N. S. lietravelled in Great Britain and the United State-to make a special study of common-school educa-tion, and has lectured and written on the isiil lie became superintendent of education forNova Scotia, and in 1871 he was appointed to thesame post in New Brunswick to establish the free-school system in that province. In 1883 he be-came professor of history and didactics in Acadiacollege, in 1885 he was appointed professor in theBaptist college at Toronto, and in 1886 he wasgiven the presidency of the Baptist collet ,iiWoodstock. Ont. He received the degree of D. (. Acadia college in 1874. 170 RANDALL RANDALL. RANDALL, Alexander Williams, statesman,b. in Ames, Montgomery co., X. V., 31 Oct., 1819;d. in Elmira, N. Y., 25 July. 1872. His father,Phineas, a native of Massachusetts, resided in Mont-gomery county, N. from 1818 till 1851, was judgeof the court of common pleas there in 1837-41, and removing toWaukesha,Wis.,died there in1853. Alexan-der received athorough aca-demic educa-tion, studiedlaw, was admit-ted to the bar,and began topractise in Wau-kesha in became soonafterward post-master of thatplace, and in1847 was chnstiia member of theconvention thatframed the state constitution. He then devotedhim-elf to his profession till 1855. when he waselected to the state assembly. The same year hewas an unsuccessful candidate for the attorney-generalship, and was appointed judge of the Mil-waukee circuit court to fill an unexpired term. In1857, and again in 1859, he was elected governorof Wisconsin, and at the beginning of the rivilwar
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