. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . Charles grandfather, alsonamed Charles Stur-tevant, was, in theBattle of Lexington,corporal of a com-pany of militia fromRochester. Afterleaving school, prepared forHarvard College un-der private tuition,but, instead of ma-triculating, went to aschool in France, andon his return enteredbusiness. Soonafterward he becamea clerk in the Mer-chants NationalBank, of which hisuncle, James , was cash-ier. The Californiagold fever
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . Charles grandfather, alsonamed Charles Stur-tevant, was, in theBattle of Lexington,corporal of a com-pany of militia fromRochester. Afterleaving school, prepared forHarvard College un-der private tuition,but, instead of ma-triculating, went to aschool in France, andon his return enteredbusiness. Soonafterward he becamea clerk in the Mer-chants NationalBank, of which hisuncle, James , was cash-ier. The Californiagold fever of 1847carried him from be-hind his desk thereto the mines, where he participated in all the rough and exciting experiencesof such a life. Returning to New Bedford, after fairsuccess, he married, in 1851, Sarah Spooner, daughterof the late Jireh and Nancy (Nye) Perry. LIntil i860he did a large shipping and commission business ; thenorganized the New Bedford Copper Company, of whichhe was treasurer till he resigned in 1867 ; then againengaged in the whaling business and in the managementof the McKay Manufacturing Comi)any. In 1S72 he. CHARLES S, RANDALL retired from active business, and with his family spentthe next two years in European travel. In 1882 political career commenced with his electionto the State Senate, where he served with credit for twoyears. At the State House he was a member of thecommittees on mercantile affairs and engrossed bills,and chairman of the former committee in his secondyear. For three years after this he was a member ofthe Republican State Central Committee. In 1888 he was elected to theFifty-first Congress,and was re-elected in1890 and 1892. AsCongre s s m a n, 11 enjoys alarge measure of pop-ularity both in Wash-ington and at the Capitol histact and genia 1 i t yhave won for him aposition of great in-fluence in promotingthe interests of hisconstituents, and inhis distr i c t he isalways on the look-out for an opportu-
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