James
Henry
Rand
Sr.
Born in Tonawanda, Erie, New York, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Calvin Gordon Rand
and Almira Hershey (Long) Rand
Brother of
Benjamin Long Rand, Mary Saphrona Rand, Cora Belle Rand, Elizabeth Hershey Rand, Eugene Smith Rand, George Franklin Rand, Josephine Almira Rand and Clara Nancy Rand
Husband of
Mary Jameson (Scribner) Rand
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Philip S. Rand,
Adelaide Almira Rand,
James Henry Rand Jr.,
Mary Scribner Rand,
Mabel Rand,
Phil Rand,
Philip Rand and
Philip Scribner Rand
Died
at age 85
in North Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Dec 2008
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Biography
James Henry Rand, SR. was a descendant of John Rand, founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts. The Rand families lived in Massachusetts and later New York state (around Tonawanda, Niagara County). James Sr. was born May 29, 1859 in NY.
James Sr. first started as a railroad telegraph operator for three years then a bank cashier. As a banker he developed the first commercial system of dividers, file tabs and index cards. James Sr. founded the Rand Ledger Company to manufacture the index system. These greatly speeded up the banking efficiency.
Between 1908 to 1915 James Sr. had his son, James Jr.at the Rand Ledger Co. James Jr. created a new company dealing with filing systems and office supplies, mostly used by medical offices, American Kardex in 1915. His ideas centered on making business simpler. It became a huge company by 1920. In 1925, James Jr. purchased the Rand Ledger Corp. with his father serving as chairman of the company.
He passed away in 1944.[1]
Sources
- ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q53X-CZX5 : 18 July 2020), James Dea and James Henry Rand Sr, 1944.
- A Genealogy of the Rand Family 1635-1987 as compiled by Philip S Rand.
- "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZZR-1LW : 19 February 2021), James H Rand in household of Benjamin L Rand, Tonawanda, Erie, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 104, sheet 165D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,827.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~12.50%
Linda Harrison
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Geof Smith :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A910306 [compare], Ancestry member linknsmith
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Living DNA, GEDmatch MJ5868069 [compare]
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~0.78%
~6.25%
CJ Fulton :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member carabythesea
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Celia Marsh
Rand-1996 and Rand-2 appear to represent the same person because: I am cleaning up the site using a wikitree plus spreadsheet of matches: One of these two profiles is an unconnected branch, the other is part of the main tree, but they look to be the same person.
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by Celia Marsh
Rejected matches › Wilber James Ransom (abt.1859-)
James is 16 degrees from June Cash, 17 degrees from Patsy Cline, 27 degrees from Mickey Guyton, 18 degrees from Naomi Judd, 16 degrees from Loretta Lynn, 36 degrees from Rita MacNeil, 18 degrees from Reba McEntire, 24 degrees from Joy Kirkpatrick, 18 degrees from Dolly Parton, 20 degrees from Minnie Pearl, 20 degrees from Kitty Wells and 28 degrees from Andrew Turvey on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.