For several years before his death Mr. Randall was a member of the Church of the Redeemer.
Mr. Randall was specially fond of his native England, and made various journeys to that county. The Editor of this Journal has special cause to know of his interest in travel and fine qualities as a traveler, having been in his company abroad in 1898, 1903, 1907 and 1910, in some of which occasions he extended his trip to France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Holland; also to Ireland and Scotland. In 1910 he saw the Passion Play. He was also a frequent visitor to Lake Mohonk. From its beginning he was a patron and valued friend of this Journal, frequently sending to it copies of legal articles from English newspapers and occasionally contributing to its pages. The article we shall publish in our next issue, entitled A Letter to Portia, was received from him only a few days before his death, as were some notes concerning the death of his friend, Mr. Robert Hopper, also of the Paterson Bar.
In 1879 Mr. Randall married Miss Jennie S. Perry, a well known and highly esteemed teacher in the Paterson Public Schools, and at one time principal of School Number Two. Mrs. Randall died in 1912. There survives one son, Edmund Brown Randall, who is now the Judge of the Paterson District Court. A brother of Thomas W., Mr. Richard Randall, also a member of the Paterson Bar, died Oct. 16, 1913.
Col. E. Livingston Price
Colonel Edward Livingston Price, for 56 years past a member of the Essex County Bar, died at his home, 112 Bruen street, Newark, on February 4, from a heart attack, after an illness of about one year.
Colonel Price was born in New York City Dec. 20, 1844, being a brother to former Governor Rodman M. Price, and a son of Francis and Maria Louisa (Hart) Price of New York City. He received his education at Dr. Cattells Edgehill School, Princeton; Dr. Woodhulls School, Freehold, and Dr. John F. Pingrys School, then in Newark and now in Elizabeth. He would have gone to college had it not been for the outbreak of the Civil War. He entered the Union Army in April, 1861, when he was sixteen, as Second Lieutenant of Company E, 74th Regiment, New York Volunteers, having been unable to get a commission in New Jersey. Shortly afterward he was promoted to First Lieutenant. In this capacity he served from July, 1861, to April, 1862, when Major General Hooker placed him on his personal staff as Ordinance officer of the Third Army Corps, Hookers Division. As Ordinance officer he served at the siege of Yorktown, Va., and during the whole of the peninsular campaign. In August, 1862, he became Major of his old Regiment, the 74th New York, which he commanded through Popes campaign in Virginia, in the battles of Bristow Station, Second Manassas and Chantilly. His promotion to the Colonelcy of the 145th New York Volunteers took place on February 18, 1863. He served with this Regiment until January, 1864, taking part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
At the end of the War he studied law with the late U. S. Justice Joseph Bradley, and was admitted as a New Jersey attorney at the June Term, 1866, but did not become counselor until February, 1879. He also became admitted to the various United States Courts. He became, in Newark, an active lawyer not only but a strong political speaker and manager, and was long chairman of the Essex County Democratic Committee and, for a time, of the State Democratic Committee. His ability as an organizer and his forcefulness as a speaker made him a powerful factor in moulding sentiment in party conventions. His tall figure and military bearing added their effect. In the latter years of his political activity he was familiarly referred to as the Old War Horse of the Democracy. As a lawyer he ranked high in municipal practice. He was counsel for the city of Newark and various outlying townships and for many of the Boards in Newark.
In 1865, before he became of age, he accepted a nomination for Assembly from Essex county and was sworn into office just after he rounded his twenty-first year. He was re-elected in 1867. As a legislator he applied his active intelligence to a study of the needs of his constituents and of the State in general and was the author of many laws now on the statute books. In later life Colonel Price bought a farm near Branchville, Sussex county, and spent much of his time there.
On June 1, 1864, Colonel Price married Emma, daughter of William and Mary Ann Marriott of Newark. On April 27, 1887, he was married again, the second wife being Frederica Theresa, daughter of Edward C. and Eva Elizabeth Eberhardt of Newark. His surviving children are a son, Frank M. Price, who lives at the Price home, and two daughters, Mrs. Frances Maria Josephine Spear, wife of Edwin M. Spear of Trenton, and Mrs. Marion White, a widow, also of Trenton. Edward Livingston Price, the eldest son, died three years ago. The eldest daughter, Marie Louise Jones, died in Kansas City, Mo.