Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Randolph, Asa M. F., jurist, was born in Alleghany county, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1829. He was educated in the common schools, Alfred Academy and Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, graduating at that institution in 1851 and receiving the master's degree in 1856. He was an instructor in the high school at Covington, Ky., during which time he also studied law and was admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1859. He enlisted in the Union army in the Forty-first Kentucky regiment; came to Kansas in 1868, locating at Burlington; was county attorney of Coffey county, and in 1874 was elected attorney-general of Kansas; was elected to the legislature in 1878; became supreme court reporter in 1879, in which capacity he served for 18 years. In 1893 his "Trial of Sir John Falstaff" was published. He died at Topeka in Sept., 1899.

Page 549 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.