ESTON RANDOLPH.
The name of "Randolph" is one every true Virginian hears with
pride, remembering the many of the name who have added to the glory
of Virginia. Both on the paternal and the maternal side Eston Randolph
is of this family. He is the son of Major Beverley Randolph, of
"The Moorings," Clarke county, Virginia, and was born at his father's
seat, on December 7, 1857. His father's father was William F.
Randolph, a prominent lawyer of Virginia, and who was a grandson of
Thomas Mann Randolph, governor of Virginia in 1819-1822, whose
family and public record are given in Volume I of Virginia and Virginians.
In the late war, Major Randolph served on the staff of Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston. His son Beverley, jr., brother of Eston, was killed at the
age of sixteen years, three days after enlistment, at Greenwood Depot,
Albemarle county, Virginia. The mother of Eston Randolph, Mary
Conway Randolph, is the daughter of Philip Gymes Randolph, at one
time acting secretary of war. Major Randolph and his wife still reside
on his estate, "The Moorings."
Eston attended private school in Clarke county, then William and
Mary College, Williamsburg. In 1876 he left college, and accepted an
appointment in the United States Signal service, in which he remained
three years. Later he studied law at the University of Virginia, and
was admitted to the bar in 1883. In December of that year he came to
Danville, where he has since been in practice, a member of the law firm
of Randolph & Randolph. He has filled a number of local offices with
credit, and is present superintendent of public schools for the city of
Danville.
