Fitz Randolphs of Note -- Some Prominent, Some Just Plain Interesting

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Contents 1 Fitz Randolph One Name Study 1.1 Members helping to develop this page 1.2 Members who have contributed 2 Fitz Randolphs of Note -- Some Prominent, Some Just Plain Interesting 2.1 On the England side 2.2 In America 2.2.1 Public Service 2.3 In the Religious Sphere 2.4 Just plain interesting 2.5 In Canada

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Fitz Randolphs of Note -- Some Prominent, Some Just Plain Interesting

While doing your Fitz Randolph family history, you may come across someone you find particularly interesting -- either because they were prominent in their time and community, or just because they were interesting or somehow intersected with history. Please share!

On the England side

In America

Public Service

• Samuel Fitz Randolph (1738-1825). After serving in the Revolutionary War, Samuel bought land in western Virginia (today West Virginia) where he established the town of New Salem in the 1790s, including a strong Seventh Day Baptist community.

• Theodore Fitz Randolph (1826-1883), Wealthy railroad and coal industrialist. Served as Democrat in New Jersey Assembly member 1859-1862; New Jersey State Senator, 1862-1868; Governor of New Jersey, 1869-1872; US Senator from New Jersey, 1875-1881. He is featured in Roy Ziegler, 2020. Unfaltering Trust: How Pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. and His Descendants Helped Build America. iUniverse.

• Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph (1829-1898); Studied at Alfred and Allegheny College (Meadville, PA) and became a lawyer in Kentucky. Served in the Civil War in 41st Kentucky Regiment. Served as one term as Attorney General of Kansas 1874-187? and one term in the Kansas House of Representatives.

• Jennings Randolph (1902-1998), Long serving US Senator from West Virginia, 1958-1985

In the Religious Sphere

Fitz Randolph women have not been shy to get involved in their church!

Rev. Druzilla Freeman aka Darraugh nee Fitz Randolph (1835-1908). Druzilla was baptized into the Separate Baptist Church at the age of 14. She maintained her faith through two marriages without children. In 1883, she became a respected Separate Baptist minister in Howard County, Indiana, being licensed in 1883 and ordained in 1885.

Experience 'Perie' Burdick nee Fitz Randolph (1852-1906). Experience grew up on a farm in West Virginia wthin a Seventh Day Baptist community, did well in school, taught for a few years and then went to college at Alfred in New York -- unusual at the time! She continued to be a path breaker: although she undoubtedly faced resistance, she was able to gain the support of the Seventh Day Baptist community to pursue a degree in Theology at Alfred and to be ordained a minister. She served as a Seventh Day Baptist minister in New York, New Jersey and Wisconsin. She married a seminarist 14 years her junior and had one child. She died young of a stroke at 54 years of age.

Just plain interesting

Samuel Fitz Randolph Jr born 1694. Samuel was a Quaker merchant. He and his brother Joseph were captains of the sloops Sunflower and Elizabeth, plying between Amboy and Boston and the Carolinas - later to Jamaica and Curacoa. Samuel was involved in events that possibly served as a model for "Treasure Island": read the fascinating story by Doug Wilson].

Daniel James Fitz Randolph (1849-1927): our Wild West Fitz Randolph reportedly hunted buffalo with Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock in Kansas and helped round up some of the outlaws of that time. A couple of wonderful interviews of Daniel's widow and his son William recorded in 1937 are transcribed on his wikitree profile page.

In Canada