RANDALL, William

Prescott Courier, Prescott, Arizona Territory November 16, 1887 William Randall was born in Eastport, Maine, in 1826, and in his early years was a sailor. He came by sea to Galveston, Texas, in 1854, and from there went through Arizona to San Bernardino, Cal., in 1855m with a herd of cattle with Dr. Barton, and the same fall returned to Fort Yuma, in this Territory. Early in '56 he went to Tucson, and there was employed by Wm. H. Kirkland, with whom he remained for six years, most of the time in the lumber business in Santa Rita. Kirkland moved to California in '61, and Randall went with him as far as the Gila City placers, in Yuma County, where he remained until the discovery of gold in this county in 1863 brought Kirkland and many others back. Kirkland found Randall at Gila City, and outfitted him and three others and sent them up here to the new diggings and shortly after followed them and discovered and located in what has ever since been known as Kirkland Valley. In the fall of '63, Kirkland, Randall and Wm. E. Dennison (who was afterwards killed by Indians at the head of the Hassayampa) discovered the richest placer diggings ever found in Walnut Grove. Kirkland sold half of is interest in the Spring of '64 to one McCloud for $1,500. Later McCloud purchased all the rest, and the diggings passed into history as 'McCloud's Bar. Died at Prescott, Yavapai County, A. T., November 11, 1887, aged 60; buried City Cemetery in Prescott. By Henry A. Bigelow